Family Business Coaching On Hand To Help You Develop
by: Glenda Drewery on Thu, 9 Sep 2010 at: 8:16 AM Go to: Previous Article Next Article
Most business across the American, Middle East and European markets are made up of family run businesses. The main aims of this article are to actually bring to the fore best practices that these family run businesses should be adopting to succeed.
Of the business market, 80-90% is composed of family run businesses in America, with nearly 70% being family run businesses across Europe, so it is not surprising that the nation's largest network of online traders, has reported that traders with a 1M turnover has doubled in the last year with nearly 25,000 new traders singing up since the recession in 2008. Despite the fact that some small businesses have suffered during the economic downturn, many family run businesses have profited from trading online, this shows that small business start-ups are actually challenging the uncertainty in the economically.
Develop the next heir to take over the family business
I n family businesses it is often taken for granted that another family member will take over the business. In any case, based on research and experience, we have found that this may not necessarily be good for the business in addition to for the individual. Sometimes the business owner is just thinking about retirement and immediately wants their child to take over the business without actually thinking about whether or not they have the right level of experience to take over and do the job. At this point, a Family Business coach would take over and provide the business owner with advice and guidance on these matters and actually make them think about these areas that they won't have thought about before.
Understanding of business knowledge and level of experience in the industry would be questioned if taking on a family member into the business. If it was agreed that the next family member to be voted into the business has no business knowledge or industry experience, then various measures would be taken and the rigorous training sessions would be set-up to bring them up to speed. This can be via set-up of internal projects to work on or by asking them to find work in the real would and working for a company within the industry for around 1 year (or more) to get that hands on experience before joining the family business.
Making good use of the family
A final note before we end today's article: business requirements. Business requirements are an important aspect of any business and need to be analysed and assessed fully via financial revenue gained for each product line and to ultimately determine if new recruits are required to cater for the added workload or expected work load to come through over the next few months to a year.
About the Author
Glenda writes for various topics across a range of industries including business coaching , and business mentoring, so visit The Academy for Chief Executives website today for more details.
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