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Family Legacies' Associates are leaders in their respective fields including; Financial Planning, Wealth & Risk Management, Auditing & Business Turnarounds, Corporate & Commercial Law as well as Professional Coaching & Facilitation, combined with Family Business Consulting expertise, to provide our clients with a professional and integrated multi-disciplinary service.
DU TOIT VAN DEN BERG
JEANDRE DU TOIT
LOUIS STROEBEL
DEBBIE MARTIN
Financial Planning, Wealth
& Risk Management
Auditing, Company Structuring
& Business Turnarounds
Corporate & Commercial Law
Professional Coach & Facilitator
FREE RESOURCES PERTAINING TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Conflict is unavoidable, even in the closest families and the best-run companies. Successful business families learn to manage such differences. Indeed, they are apt to find that discussion of alternative viewpoints often leads to constructive change. Business owners who never developed conflict-resolution skills may hesitate to put interpersonal issues on the table for fear that the mere articulation of their feelings will damage their relationship with the other party.
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PERTAINING TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Conflict is unavoidable, even in the closest families and the best-run companies. Successful business families learn to manage such differences. Indeed, they are apt to find that discussion of alternative viewpoints often leads to constructive change. Business owners who never developed conflict-resolution skills may hesitate to put interpersonal issues on the table for fear that the mere articulation of their feelings will damage their relationship with the other party.
7 STEPS TO BREAKING DOWN THE WALL OF SILENCE
Communication is the key to success in maintaining a successful family business. Yet, many families that adopt avoidance behaviour believe that conflicts will just go away if they pretend they do not exist.
When people avoid putting themselves in situations or relationships in which conflicts might arise, they may be depriving themselves of opportunities for important personal growth.
Avoidance merely postpones dealing with the conflict and usually allows it to worsen. Time does not heal all wounds.
Frustrations are usually exacerbated by avoidance, and misperceptions go unclarified.
Avoidance denies parties in conflict the opportunity of using their differences to clarify their relationship and to open their minds to the possibility of improvement.
8 PRINCIPLES FOR BREAKING DEADLOCKS
Families who work together to develop methods for addressing business conflicts find they can turn their differing viewpoints into a force for constructive change. Setting rules like these can help families resolve impasses over major decisions.
10 RULES FOR CULTIVATING & MAINTAINING FAMILY CONNECTION
& HEALING FROM FAMILY RIFTS
Sometimes new bridges can be built - a new capacity for loving, honest, and conscious contact can be achieved - between people who had formerly dropped the guillotine on any possibility of communication, much less love. Sometimes the door can be partially reopened, allowing a cooler truce; sometimes, because of inherently uncompromising blocks, the door must remain shut, at least for the foreseeable future.
However, whatever the ultimate outcome of family members’ behaviour toward one another, your own private internal healing must come first. Without that, no family rift can be mended or reunion sustained - there can be no real, lasting peace in any family member’s heart.
These suggested rules are geared to free you from those kinds of negative assumptions about what success in a family entails. They are the building blocks of healing from family rifts.