Family Businesses
Family Business Consulting, Advisory and Coaching
The relationship between a family and its business is one you don’t find anywhere else. It has a unique set of challenges that are often difficult to navigate.
An approach that optimises business performance and enhances family dynamics creates more harmony.
Navigating Complex Dynamics With Sensitivity and Expertise
Family businesses don't have to be difficult to manage or grow.
Family Needs
The needs of family business have become more complex.
Maintaining the balance of the family and business is a task that rarely goes smoothly. Many families turn to a multitude of advisors to help navigate each aspect in isolation. This approach adds complexity.
An integrated ecosystem approach overcomes many family business challenges and is Gail's approach to restoring harmonious growth.
Rather than squeezing your business or your family needs into a mould, Gail's approach first assesses the health of your business, identifying areas that need the most help and prioritising personal happiness and business growth.
You've successfully built your business and will be doing a lot of things right, so let's meet you where you are and take you to where you want to be.
"Our family working relationship improved and with your help we saw our team's productivity increase too. Our culture has improved. We are accepting of our differences and celebrating our strengths. Thanks to your emotional and business expertise our future is looking calmer, brighter and more secure."
Family Business Leadership
A commitment to lead with purpose and positive outcomes.
The ability to interact with the family, the business management team and society requires skills that combine transformational and transactional leadership styles.
An effective and empathetic family communication style can result in better financial performance as well as more emotional stability, especially at times of transition.
Recognising the complexity of family business leadership enables Gail to take a humanistic, simple yet profound approach and focus on the essence of the vital aspects for family business leadership, health and growth.
"Family should always be the priority in a family run business."
Aspects of Gail Biddulph's Work With Family Businesses
In her work with family businesses and individual family members, Gail's uniqueness to her work is taking, as her foundation and thread, a very human understanding of the topics. This approach is refreshing when the widespread approach is technically biased with less focus on people, their emotions, life and well-being. Gail weaves this approach whilst navigating all aspects of family business.
Your Blueprint for Success
Imagine having a blueprint that focused on growth and harmonises your family dynamics. Gail Biddulph offers expert consulting designed to optimise business performance and enhance family dynamics.
Strategic Business Reviews: Dive deep with Gail as she evaluates your business strategies and commercial goals whilst aligning personal goals and family values to achieve sustainable success.
Operational Streamlining: Inefficienties are costly and emotionally draining. Gail identifies and refines processes to boost your productivity and profitability, whilst enhancing key personal drivers and while considering the unique dynamics of your family business.
Family Communication: Communication can become complex within a family and the business. Taking the role of confidante, Gail cognitively analyses the sticking points of communication, dives to the root and creates operational solutions that sympathetically alleviates any tensions.
Strengthen Bonds and Forge Ahead
The health of your business is directly tied to the mental and physical well-being of its members. Gail incorporates psychological insights to strengthen family bonds and business growth:
Stress Management Workshops: Prevent burnout through practical and business focused workshops that equip your family to manage stress effectively. This personal toolkit is crucial for maintaining personal and business health.
Tailored Retreats: Step back, take a different perspective on your business with space to escape tailored retreats. Designed to give you the reset you need most, whilst refining business strategies away from daily pressures.
Next Generation Coaching and Mentoring
Family businesses have both advantages and disadvantages. The next generation in a family business face a new set of challenges and sifting dynamics.Often a conflict arises whether next gen should map their own career, or join the family business. This can lead to frustration, miscommunications and a widening gap between current and younger family members where opinions are not heard.
Gail Biddulph offers family business psychology coaching and mentoring to help maintain the direction and growth of the business whilst equiping the next generation with tools and resources to ensure productivity, culture, wellbeing as the business continue to move forward.
Personal Skills & Wellbeing
- Improving communicate & relationships between the business management and other family members
- Managing expectations and and dealing with multi-generational family expectations
- Resolving disagreements and conflicting priorities
- Practicing acceptance of other's views whilst maintaining effective communications
- Striving for equality and sibling relationship
- Personal development and well-being
- Helping each family member individually understand the complex psychologies and emotions behind their relationships with each other.
Succession Planning and Exit
The current generation have a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience. Knowing the next generation are strategically preparing their development is vital for the successful evolution of your family and your family business.Taking time to consider the transition from full time family business responsibilities to exiting the family business needs careful planning to maintain healthy emotions and life after daily life in the family business.
Creating a family constitution or family creed that sets out rights, values, responsibilities and rules whether for the future of the family business or during the transition provides a framework to deal with situations which arise during the course of the succession planning and exit.
What Other Family Business Leaders Are Saying About Gail
Gail Biddulph is one of the best transformational business-focused self-mastery guru’s I’ve had the privilege to work with.Her level of genuine care and intuitive understanding of the life, situation and needs of her clients is in a class of its own.
I highly recommend Gail to any fellow business leader who wishes to embark on a journey of self-discovery whilst keeping their business highly successful.
Gail has a natural warmth, calmness and elegant professionalism and that is easy to connect with. Her unique approach helps business owners understand that success is more than just strategy. We live in a time where it is possible to have it all – more time, more money and more clients. Gail’s ‘dive deep’ techniques blend purpose, passion and profit into a whole realism of what this vision means to you.