Business Harmonizer: Silent Barriers - Family Business Conflict Resolution, Succession Planning, Organizational Coach - Vancouver

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Exposing The Silent Barriers

Among Your Business Owning Family Members Have You Noticed?:

Your Dad doesn't trust your ability to make sound decisions.
You have fears about being excluded from important business decisions that will eventually determine your future.
There are resentments about your current role in the business.
Gossip about the lifestyle of other family members is disturbing.
Hurt feelings keep relatives separate and angry.
The need for control by other family member employees stifles leadership.
Rivalry among sibling employees undermines decision-making.
Favoritism pits one relative against the other.
Senior family members hold power over other family members.
Expectations or assumptions about who runs family gatherings is disruptive.
Jealousy prevents cooperation.

At Your Workplace Have You Noticed?:

You do your best to motivate and collaborate with colleagues, yet you are met only with apathy and resistance?
Employees seem to wish they were elsewhere?
The workplace culture lacks coherence?
Customers are complaining about bad attitudes or sloppy service?
Improvement suggestions are often met with negative responses?
There is no camaraderie in your workplace, or the camaraderie that does exist excludes certain people?
A "not-my-job" attitude is stopping people from helping each other?
Grudges and gossip seem to fester?

An answer of "yes" to any of these accounts signals that SILENT BARRIERS may be undermining the true potential of your business and your business owning family relations. Silent barriers are negative attitudes and behaviours that lead to mistrust, disrespect, misunderstanding, cliques, and other counterproductive actions. Recognizing the presence of silent barriers is the first step to identifying and, ultimately, overcoming them.

Most organizations and family-owned enterprise simmer with these obstacles, yet rarely address them openly - to their own disadvantage. Overtime, when ignored, silent barriers can become embedded in the culture of the business and the family, producing serious inertia to change and cooperation and eventually undermining even the best of business plans and family harmony.

In her work with business families and entrepreneurs, Francine Carlin applies the collaborative Business Harmonizer™ process to expose and break through silent barriers to help you realize business goals and enduring family goodwill.

In the words of one client who participated in the Business Harmonizer™ process:

"What we learned about silent barriers has transformed our entire leadership team. Once people in this organization - including me - became aware of the barriers and began to address them constructively, we became a higher functioning group. There's a completely new level of trust, respect, and excitement around here that is finally producing the results we've been looking for." Overcoming Silent Barriers (PDF), What's Your Succession Plan? (PDF)

"We seemed to move successfully into some thick topics - not always comfortable, but good."
M. Martin,
SunTech Optics

"Francine is able to creatively link issues of the heart to the real world of business."
D. and J. Miller,
JJM Construction

"Francine does not soft pedal; she helped us confront difficult issues and did so with graceful candor."
K. Keller,
Anchorage Public Libraries