Education - Conway Center for Family Business

Education

Tuesday Jan 7, 2020
Leadership is complex; and especially for family businesses. Join this Leadership 2.0 group to find your safe place for monthly support, peer mentoring and group coaching to discover how to lead well in ambiguity. This group is open to family and non-family member leaders working in a family-owned business who desire: ? A safe and consistent space to share openly and seek advice and support for your day-to-day leadership challenges ? A deeper understanding of your unique voice in this group and in your business by taking the Clifton Strengths Assessment ? Leadership development education around topics such as: o Growth Mindset o Language of Strengths o Conscious Leadership o Healthy Conflict o Equipping Talent ... read more
Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Tuesday Jan 7, 2020
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Thursday Jan 9, 2020
Separating Business & Personal Assets • How many have the business in a separate entity from the land? • Getting money out of the business • LLC ownership of Property – rent – lease • Personal assets; real estate assets • Outside income • Treating family members fairly while maintaining business control ... read more
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Thursday Jan 9, 2020
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Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Best Business Practices from 2019: What Worked and Why? The new year is a time to reflect on the recent past as well as make adjustments and plan. Join us in this discussion to share best practices with other women business leaders. Share and learn from each other -what worked for you in 2019 and why?! ... read more
Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Facilitated by Mary Beth Koester from Rea & Associates, the panelists will discuss their best practices on attracting and retaining non-family employees. They will give insight into what has worked best for their businesses and offer advice on launching and sustaining recruitment efforts. The family business panelists include Kent Johnson, CEO of Highlights for Children, Sharon DeLay, Founder of GO-HR, and Kim Troy of Civilis Marketing. Carley Childress, director of HR and a non-family leader at Schoedinger Funeral & Cremation Service will also join the panel. Sponsored by KeyBank ... read more
Categories: CCFB Educational Program
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Coaching/Guiding/Mentoring While it is important to develop your leadership skills internally, the best measurement of a leader is how the engage and develop others. This course will discuss the three most common ways of empowering and developing the people you lead. Objectives: • Discuss and review the differences between the three types of leadership actions • Determine how best to apply these tactics to your leadership situation ... read more
Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
TriMetrix EQ - Are we connecting? (this session focus is on Driving Forces) Combines Behaviors, 12 Driving Forces and Emotional Intelligence in a fully integrated assessment and reveals the effects on family business relationships. Leveraging the power of three sciences, we will measure your ability to sense, apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate high levels of collaboration and productivity within your family business. Take Away: • An understanding of our own behavior style along with key family business leaders • Your personalized 55-page assessment * * Prework is required. Everyone attending should complete a TriMetrix EQ assessment. Access to the complimentary TriMetrix EQ assessment will be provided to you upon registration for this session. Please complete prior to this session and bring your results. Note that if you already completed this assessment session, no need to re-take - please just bring to this session. Being a non-family leader in a family-owned business can be incredibly rewarding… and challenging. This peer group will help determine strategies of influence and impact for non-family leaders. Led by experts from Driscoll Learning, this session is facilitated by Bryan Driscoll. ... read more
Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
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Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Building Enterprise Value over Time - Jim Rollins and Lloyd Bell of Meaden & Moore will address: What was your company worth 10 years ago ? What is your company worth today ? What do you want it to be worth at the start of the next decade? What are you doing now to increase value? How do I start this process? ... read more
Categories: CCFB Roundtable
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Is the Performance Review Dead? We hate to do them. We have to do them. Is there a better way? Let's take this time to talk about why and how we're evaluating performance, share best practices, and generate new ideas for rewarding performance and correcting behavior. Sharon DeLay, President, GO-HR, will moderate this event. This quarterly peer group is facilitated by family business owner Sharon DeLay, President of GO-HR. a HR consultancy working with businesses across five areas: general HR, recruiting and on-boarding, training and development, benefits and benefits consulting, and career and corporate outplacement. ... read more
Categories: CCFB Roundtable
Tuesday Feb 4, 2020
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Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Wednesday Feb 5, 2020
Curious about the Conway Center? Already a member and want to learn more? Back by popular demand, we are hosting a breakfast for new, prospective, returning members, or any other family business or service provider members interested in learning more about getting the most out of your Conway Center membership. Get insight from current, long-time members, and make some new friends! This event will give everyone an opportunity to network with other family business leaders, and to learn more about the history of the Conway Center, its offerings and member benefits. Hear from some of our members on how they maximize their membership and on ways to get engaged! FREE for all to attend but please register ... read more
Categories: CCFB Roundtable, CCFB Networking & Social Events
Thursday Feb 6, 2020
Leadership is complex; and especially for family businesses. Join this Leadership 2.0 group to find your safe place for monthly support, peer mentoring and group coaching to discover how to lead well in ambiguity. Enrollment is closed for this series, but if you are interested in this group - please contact Amy at adotts@familybusinesscenter.com. Donna Musilli of DM360 will leads these sessions focusing on your most relevant business challenges. These sessions may have some teaching components, but the bulk of the time will be for what’s on your mind. What are your needs? And how can the group support you? ... read more
Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
How to Win at Negotiating Most of us women don’t like it and tend to avoid it but negotiating in a crucial skill. Join us in this important discussion of how best to communicate your needs to get what you deserve. • Negotiating Skills • Importance of Preparation and Knowing your Worth • Overcoming Barriers and Bias ... read more
Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Sharing Financial Information • How do you feel about sharing? • Confidentiality considerations • Who gets financial information & what form does the information take? • How much information is shared? • Timing of reporting • Shareholder family members vs. family in the business ... read more
Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Developmental Roadmap Description: In today’s world, more and more people need help determining how to be the best version of themselves. Learn how to help those around create purpose in their life and a plan to achieve it. Objectives: • Review the best practices around Developmental Roadmaps • Create a personalized development plan as an exercise to use with others ... read more
Categories: CCFB Peer Group
Thursday Feb 20, 2020
This session will help clear the haze on what family business leaders can do in the event of positive and false positive drug screenings, how to incorporate drug policies into your employee handbook, the importance of management training for upholding drug policies, drug-related terminations and more. Panelists are Janica Pierce Tucker and Devin Spencer from Taft/ Kim Smith from Confirmed Integrity Sponsored by GREENCREST. ... read more
Categories: CCFB Educational Program
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
In this unique forum, hear from family business owners as they share with other Conway family business owners their company's growth journey -- how marketing (everything from sales to building a brand to traditional marketing to digital marketing) played a role in that growth. Learn the trials and errors they made along the way, the tough decisions and investment risks venturing into unchartered waters and how the company measured success. This February 25th session features Mark DeBellis, Managing Partner of Suburban Steel Supply Company. ... read more
Categories: CCFB Roundtable

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