Leveraging a Legacy: Success Strategies for Family-Owned and Closely-Held Businesses
Succession Planning – Leveraging the Family Legacy
Managing Change – Turning Mess into Magic!
Trust and Communication
Hiring Strategy - The Basics of Behavioral-Based Interviewing
Catching Starlight - How to Attract the New Generation of Employees
This workshop covers 6 practical steps a family-owned or closely held business can take to increase the success, trust, harmony and productivity in the organization. Challenging economic times can often cause confusion and serious concern about how to manage effectively and ensure the sustainability of the company. Discover how family-owned businesses can capitalize on their flexibility and responsiveness to weather the current storm.
Available as a Keynote, Workshop Session, or One-day Seminar.
Succession planning is more than just picking a potential successor for the owner or CEO. An effective succession plan can mean the difference between a company that thrives on change and demonstrates flexibility, creativity, and professionalism and one that falters, struggles, and loses momentum over time. Learn some of the most important steps in building a plan that can truly make a difference for both your family and your business.
Available as a Keynote or Workshop Session.
All organizations must change – it is the only constant! But why do some seem to thrive during times of major change and upheaval and others struggle, losing productivity, and experiencing a drop in morale and sometimes even a loss of key employees and customers? Learn some of the most successful methods for managing change effectively – including ways to understand resistance and turn this negative response into positive energy.
Available as a Keynote, Workshop Session, or One-day Seminar.
A lack of trust can paralyze an otherwise healthy family or business because conflict situations are addressed with ridicule, anger, or silence. In today's rapidly changing business environment, trust and communication skills are a major competitive advantage. When family and business leaders know how to work through difficult business issues, the best ideas can be recognized and implemented. As an individual, you learn ways to build stronger, more effective interpersonal relationships—even with "difficult" people. As an organization, every employee can act in ways that establish and maintain the trust needed to make the business work. Gain powerful new communication skills that you will use everyday.
Available as a Keynote, Workshop Session, or One-day Seminar.
Our newest generation of employees have a great deal to offer our traditional workplaces but they can be hard to attract and even harder to keep. Young employees are entering the workforce with an entirely new set of expectations, different demands and greater life options than ever before. If potential employers want a chance at hiring the best and the brightest of these young professionals, workplace practices will need to be creative and flexible – from our hiring methods to our compensation programs. Jobs will need to be challenging and dynamic and older employees will need to both understand and mentor their younger colleagues. Lisë Stewart, Managing Partner of Galliard Group, will share a number of practical techniques for attracting and keeping younger employees in our workplace.
Available as a Keynote or Workshop Session
Available as a workshop covering:
- Why use behavioral interviewing
- What influences our decision-making in an interview
- How to prepare for a behavioral interview including - understanding the difference between skills and behaviors that can be taught and those that can be hired
- How to write a behavioral or situational question
- How to identify an appropriate answer
- How to conduct the interview
- The importance of using assessment exercises