This You Should Sell The Business Conversation Guide helps successors or other persons avoid disruption when communicating to the owner that it might be time to close or sell the business. At times, family members or other loved ones may need to convince the owner that it is time to sell the family business. This conversation guide helps the business through the tough decision to sell or close the family business with tact and empathy. It addresses:

1. Whether selling is really the best option.
2. Involving the owner in the sale process.
3. Weighing the owner’s wishes against those of the stakeholder(s) in the sale process.

Crafted by an organizational psychologist, Succession Strength Conversation Guides help family businesses navigate difficult conversations. Flexible and self-guided, this guide helps successors or other persons have the conversation with confidence on their own time and at a fraction of the cost of 1:1 coaching. Order Now!

$275

The I Am Selling The Business Conversation Guide helps family business owners avoid conflict within the family or business when communicating the decision to sell or close the business. At times, the owner may need to communicate the decision to sell the business. This conversation guide helps the business through communicating the tough decision to sell or close the family business with tact and empathy. It addresses:

1. Dealing with the emotional impact of this decision on the family.
2. How to go about the sale while considering its potential impact on the family, workforce, and community.
3. Determining whether selling is the best option.

Crafted by an organizational psychologist, Succession Strength Conversation Guides help family businesses navigate difficult conversations. This comprehensive self-help guide allows business owners to confidently navigate the conversation, course correcting if things don’t go as planned. Order Now!

$275

This Boundaries Conversation Guide is one of our top sellers. It helps both the owner and successor avoid conflict in the family and business by communicating to set healthy boundaries to help manage the reality of life in the family business and overcome feelings of overwhelm.

Working in the family business may be overwhelming for family members when life is the business and business becomes life. This conversation guide helps a business owner and successor set healthy boundaries to help manage life in the family business. It addresses:

1. Letting the owner know that I am feeling overwhelmed by family overexposure.
2. Managing intrusive behavior from other family members.
3. Working together as a family to create balance between work and our personal lives.

Crafted by an organizational psychologist, Succession Strength Conversation Guides help family businesses navigate difficult conversations. Flexible and self-guided, this guide helps owners and successors have the conversation with confidence on their own time and at a fraction of the cost of 1:1 coaching. Order Now!

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$275

The Your Vision Will Kill My Business Conversation Guide helps family business owners manage change while avoiding conflict and disruption in the business and family.  It helps by overcoming resistance to changing ways of operating during and or after the succession transition and communicating concerns to the successor. A business owner may be resistant to changing ways of operating during and or after a succession transition. This conversation guide helps a business owner and successor manage change and the reality of life during and after the succession. It addresses:

1. Understanding the successor’s motivations for changing how things are done.
2. Dealing with sensitivities the owner may have regarding their legacy.
3. The amount of creative freedom that a successor should have.

Crafted by an organizational psychologist, Succession Strength Conversation Guides help family businesses navigate difficult conversations. This comprehensive self-help guide allows owners to confidently navigate the conversation, course correcting if things don’t go as planned. Order Now!

$275

This We Need to Innovate Conversation Guide helps owners and successors avoid conflict and disruption while considering new ideas or innovations for the business. A family business owner may be reluctant to accept or try new ideas or innovations. This conversation guide helps a business owner and successor manage consideration of new ideas. It addresses:

1. Innovating in a way that still protects the heritage of the business.
2. Introducing innovation into a business that is not broken.
3. Agreeing on the acceptable amount of risk involved with the innovation.
4. Agreeing on areas that should not be changed.

Crafted by an organizational psychologist, Succession Strength Conversation Guides help family businesses navigate difficult conversations. Flexible and self-guided, this guide helps owners and successors have the conversation with confidence on their own time and at a fraction of the cost of 1:1 coaching. Order Now!

$275

The You Are Underperforming Conversation Guide is one of our top sellers. It helps owners avoid disruption and conflict in the business and family while holding successors accountable. This conversation guide helps a business owner manage issues related to the successor who is underperforming. It addresses what to do when:

1. Key stakeholders are unhappy with the successor.
2. Business operations are suffering.
3. Sales are suffering.

Crafted by an organizational psychologist, Succession Strength Conversation Guides help family businesses navigate difficult conversations. This conversation guide is self-help but still comprehensive allowing owners to confidently navigate the conversation in their own time, course-correcting if things don’t go as planned.  Order Now!

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$275

The I Need More Freedom to Operate Conversation Guide helps family business successors avoid stress and conflict when asking for more freedom to operate from the owner or others in their new role. This conversation guide helps the successor manage issues related to the reality of life during and after the succession transition. It addresses:

1. Making the past owner aware of his/her restrictive presence.
2. Stopping the past owner making decisions that are the successor’s to make.
3. Stopping the past owner from undermining the successor to key stakeholders.

Crafted by an organizational psychologist, Succession Strength Conversation Guides help family businesses navigate difficult conversations. This comprehensive self-help guide makes it easy to confidently navigate the conversation and course-correct if things don’t go as planned. Order Now!

$275

The I Need More Support Conversation Guide helps family business successors ask for additional support from the owner or others even after the transition while overcoming imposter-syndrome and being taken seriously in the role. This conversation guide helps the successor overcome barriers to settling into the new role during and after the succession transition. It addresses:

1. Navigating informal channels that may be hurting my efforts.
2. Being taken more seriously in this new role.
3. Getting help identifying gaps in my knowledge or skills.
4. Overcoming imposter syndrome or real under-qualification for this role.

Crafted by an organizational psychologist, Succession Strength Conversation Guides help family businesses navigate difficult conversations. This comprehensive self-help guide allows successors to confidently navigate the conversation, course correcting if things don’t go as planned. Order Now!

$275

This Handling Multiple Successors Conversation Guide helps owners avoid conflict in the business AND family by making sure that multiple family members who have a role in the business, work together without jealousy or fighting. This conversation guide helps manage issues related to performance and the reality of life during and after the succession transition. It addresses:

1. Managing family members who follow traditional operations versus those who want to innovate.
2. Allocating equity to family members who, temporarily, cannot contribute as much as initially agreed.
3. Guiding family members on handling informal channels of communication within the business.

Crafted by an organizational psychologist, Succession Strength Conversation Guides help family businesses navigate difficult conversations. Flexible and self-guided, this guide helps owners have the conversation with confidence on their own time and at a fraction of the cost of 1:1 coaching. Order Now!

$275

This Don’t Want To Take Over; Don’t Want Any Role Conversation Guide helps family business successors avoid conflict when communicating their decision to decline the offer to lead and work in the business.

As a succession candidate, you may need to communicate a decision to decline both the role for the top position or any other role in the business. This guide helps the successor clearly articulate the decision to not lead the business while managing the expectations and sensitivities of all stakeholders in the business, including the owner. It addresses:

1. Dealing with conflicting views on the desirability of running the business.
2. Handling the successor’s business decision so that it does not jeopardize the family relationship.
3. Dealing with potential impact of scandal at the decision not to run the company.

Crafted by an organizational psychologist, Succession Strength Conversation Guides help family businesses navigate difficult conversations. This comprehensive self-help guide makes it easy for successors to confidently navigate the conversation to reject the offer to lead and work in the business and course-correct if things don’t go as planned.  Order Now!

$275