Course Details
GEN 101
Family Enterprise: Understanding Families in Business and Families of WealthConcepts include:
- Defining family enterprises
- Classic systems of a family enterprise
- Representative governance systems in family enterprise
- Key characteristics of family enterprises
- Concepts in family enterprise study
- Theoretical frameworks in family enterprises
- Core professions working with family enterprises
- Multidisciplinary professional teams
GEN 102
Systems Thinking for the Family Enterprise AdvisorConcepts include:
- Systems Thinking and why it is a vital tool in advising family enterprises.
- The key complexities in a family enterprise that benefit from Systems Thinking.
- How to adopt a Systems Thinking mindset.
- Genograms as a practical tool for understanding the client system and how this tool can positively influence the work of the professional.
- The role of Systems Thinking in the growth, development and personal engagement of all family enterprise advisors.
GEN 201
The Action Research Model as Applied to Family Enterprise AdvisingConcepts include:
- Delivering the nine phases of the consulting process
- Supporting systems thinking and the multi-disciplinary approach
- Applying core theories with the skills and tools required to work effectively with family enterprise clients
- Executing planned change through strategies, implementation and communication
- Recognising your own lens, filters and biases
GEN 202
Advising the Family Wealth System: A Multidisciplinary ApproachConcepts include:
- Understanding the nature and complexities of families of wealth
- Identifying and exploring the management structures used by families of wealth
- Unique challenges and opportunities encountered by professionals working with families of wealth
- Multidisciplinary tools needed to work with families of wealth
GEN 501
Evidence-Based Advising: Using Research to Empower Family EnterprisesConcepts include:
- Helping advisors become critical users of research.
- Creating awareness of the heterogeneity within family firms.
- Clarifying the variances in family firms so professionals can avoid applying a ‘one size fits all’ mentality.
- Understanding the need for family firm identities.
- Identifying what influences a family firm’s economic and non-economic performance.
- Helping advisors guide family enterprises in their quest for sustainability.