Who Needs Family Business Consultants And Why?
According to the results of a recent survey, most family-owned companies need family business consultants, primarily because of “succession planning” or actually the lack of it.
And because the vast percentage of all companies, up and down every street in every town are considered “family owned”, it means that the majority of all companies face the distinct likelihood of losing their life’s work because they have not kept their eye on the ball when it comes to succession planning.
That’s right – succession planning is critical because it is a process that unlocks cash from the business for the departing generation of owners and creates an environment where the next generation can begin taking over.
This process requires a different set of advisors – or at least a new member or two of the company’s advisory team. One of the many things that a good family business consulting team can do is help with those very important plans – creating business management transition and ownership transition simultaneously. The success of the company for future generations depends upon it.
In companies large and small, succession planning involves aligning the visions of – in most cases the founders of the business although it could be the children or even grandchildren of the founders, stakeholders and gradually handing off decision-making authority to the next generation of managers.
In order to do this successfully, training and identifying potential leaders is necessary.
That’s just one of the areas that family business consultants can help with.
Alex welcomes Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, a British politician, business consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, and inventor. Monckton has been at the forefront of criticizing the CRU emails and the fraudulent climate change scam.
Hear Amy Schuman, Principal Consultant of The Family Business Consultant Group, giving a presentation on family business paradoxes. For more information, please visit www.efamilybusiness.com.
