Creating Your Future
From our experience in the manufacturing industry, we can relate to the process of building a product from start to finish and getting it out the door while ensuring quality, consistency, and efficiency. It involves a variety of nuances highly interdependent of each other. Managing supply chain, technology/machinery, process, and cultivating a high performing culture are just a few of the many influences impacting success.
As succession planners, we are experts in streamlining complex moving parts towards one focus, the legacy and lifestyle you have committed your life’s work to provide. Similar to the development of your product, through considering 10 interdependent areas of your business, we construct and implement succession strategies to achieve your long-term vision.
The number one thing business owners notice when they engage our services is a clear path forward.
What happens when you decide to takes the next step towards the future you imagine…now? Business ownership by nature is risky; succession planning however creates strategies and structure to put you in control.
Resources
How Do I Make Decisions In Uncertain Times?
With COVID-19 and a change in president the variables feel like they are changing every day. What will be the new policies, will we be able to remain open for business, can we even set goals and a strategy for 2021? Bill Lowman with Shuffield Lowman and Ryan Kerrigan with [...]
Video: The Perfect Storm for Estate Planning
2021 feels a lot like a Perfect Storm. A pandemic, political and social unrest, and economic turmoil. Depending upon when you watch this, you may be fretting about how the election will affect your asset portfolio and estate planning. David Weaver shares different estate planning opportunities to consider as well as a few "Gotcha's" [...]
If behaviors change due to COVID-19 how do we re-calibrate our culture?
An event like COVID-19 forces organizations to change, from day-to-day operations to how we interact with our people, customers and community. Strategic planning provides an impactful process to integrate COVID 19 learnings into the business. If there is a Strategic Plan on The Shelf, which we refer to as SPOTS, [...]
What is The Best Way to Address Uncomfortable Subjects?
Addressing uncomfortable subjects during a time of crisis should be no different than in normal times. It is about communicating clearly and ensuring proper expectations are being set. Anxiety is higher during times of crisis and if leaders and organizations are not communicating out to their people on an ongoing [...]
How do I measure the productivity of my new remote team and ensure they are being efficient?
Communication is key. We hear it all the time in all aspects of managing a team and running a business. However, when managing a remote team, whether new or old, communication has never been more important. It has to be done clearly, early and often. Performance expectations remain the same [...]
What Can I Do to Ease My Employees Anxiety and Worry?
A silver lining of COVID-19 is everyone is in the same boat as everything is new to all of us. We are in this together. The most critical thing we can do to ease our employees’ anxiety and worry is to communicate clearly and often. It is OK to share [...]
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The Succession Matrix
Many people put off succession planning because they think it means retirement, exit and the end. However; succession planning is just the beginning. It gives the owner options in terms of what “their next” looks like, whether that be growth, philanthropy or a new business venture. Our process focuses are addressing 10 key areas of what we call the Succession Matrix.
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