FEBRUARY, 2020 | Issue No. 4
UPCOMING
EVENTS
WEDNESDAY,MARCH 18

'How Did My Family Get in My Office?'

Did you know research has shown that unresolved conflict costs organizations approximately $359 billion in paid hours or the equivalent of 385 million working days?

In this eye-opening program, you will learn surprising ways your upbringing has impacted your conflict style - for better or for worse – and how you can keep what works and change what doesn’t. 

Program Outcomes:

  • Identify how your parents are your "first leaders"

  • Assess how your current conflict management pattern is helping or hurting your work relationships and family business

  • Discover 4 Action steps to successfully navigate conflict at home and at work
SPEAKER
Bonnie Artman Fox

Whether you are a manager, executive, entrepreneur, or employee, you will walk away with new tools for resolving conflict, building trust, creating cooperation, and producing bottom-line results.
Family and Business are a great combination but achieving real understanding can be very complicated.  The communication style used in the family business can enhance or hurt family and business relationships.

These issues affect the bottom line of a company.  We may not realize the lost hours wasted on avoidance or ineffective conversation.  But effective conflict resolution only enhances a firms profitability.  

Learning how one’s upbringing impacts conflict style can help assess what works and what doesn’t in conversations. Come to this presentation for an opportunity to learn skills and insights to benefit family managers and non-family managers.

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Sue Reilly
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