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Family Business Coaching Course
While family businesses make up over 60% of the GDP and employ over 64% of the US population, the percentages only get higher outside of the US. The demand for leadership coaching in this segment is growing rapidly, and I believe these leaders need coaches who understand the unique complexities of leadership in family businesses.
I designed the Family Business Coaching Course to help coaches specialize in family businesses because they do not operate like a non-family business. Family businesses suffer a unique tension because they operate with two sets of opposing rules. The rules of the business are rational and value profits, competition and meritocracy. The rules of the family are emotional and value fairness, sharing and unconditional belonging. This results in cognitive dissonance, unique power dynamics, and interpersonal and intrapersonal conflict all of which can be addressed with polarity thinking.
Family businesses also operate with entirely different different governance structures and succession strategies that break the rules of traditional business.
The language of family business is different. Leadership in a family business is different. I designed this course to help coaches serve this incredibly important segment of global business more holistically, more ethically and with a greater appreciation for its inherent complexities.
Fall 2024 Cohort begins October 8, 2024
Eight (8) classes occur on Tuesdays from 10a-12p CENTRAL Time
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Class 1: 10/08/24 - Introduction, Overview, Ethics
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Class 2: 10/29/24 - Family Business as a System
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Class 3: 11/12/24 - Power Dynamics
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Class 4: 11/26/24 - Conflict in Family Business
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Class 5: 12/10/24 - Family Business Polarities
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Class 6: 01/07/25 - Family Business Succession
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Class 7: 01/21/25 - Family Business Governance
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Class 8: 02/04/25 - Putting it all Together
Learning Objectives
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Greater sensitivity to the ethics involved in family business coaching
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How the Family Mindset and Business Mindset polarity uniquely manifests in family businesses
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Introduction to family business vocabulary and confidence in using new facilitation modalities within the family business
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Sufficient understanding of polarity principles and how to use them with client families
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Greater self-awareness of our blind spots as coaches
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Ability to serve family business leaders more ethically, more holistically, and with fewer blind spots
Coaches earn CCEs and a Certificate of Completion
For coaches who maintain a credential with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), this course provides 30 CCEs: 15 Core Competency and 15 Resource Development. Those who complete the course will receive a Certificate of Completion as well as an invitation to join a Family Business Coaches listserv for collaboration and connection with fellow family business coaches.
Get in Touch
If you have any questions, feel free to email me at Cathy@Legacyonward.com.