Many FOX members have come to realize that effective education programs don’t just happen, they are creatively designed with specific outcomes in mind. Come to this session to hear from several chief learning officers who are positively impacting their families by designing engaging experiential programs for each generation. Program overviews and learning modules designed and used by three families will be featured.
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In Skin in the Game, a proposed TV show with a format similar to Shark Tank, the audience effectively runs the game, deciding which businesses get funded. Audience members also have the option to invest their own capital in the Skin in the Game fund. More than fun and games, it was designed with projections for job creation and economic development in mind, and the success of these crowd-funded deals will be published and discussed on each show.
SEMINAR 1: Preparing the Individual, the Family, and the Family Business for the Future
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Successful business-owning families know that a set of timely decisions is required to continually prepare and grow the family-operating companies. For the long-term success of the family, timely and thoughtful exploration of future planning for self and family is also required, but often overlooked. This session presents ideas and best practices for strategically planning for the lasting success of individuals, family, and business, while recognizing the complex intertwining of the three.You can view each part of the seminar below:
SEMINAR 3: Building Trust in the Family Owner Group: Clarifying Roles and Aligning on Goals
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Family businesses transitioning from the owner-manager stage to a larger and more diverse family ownership group often lack the practices necessary to assure owner alignment and avoid conflict. Many times, owner groups are perched on the lip of what we call the “conflict spiral,” ready to descend into fractured communication and hostile relationships. Our presenters have found that the “four-room model” provides a clear and practical perspective on how governance and decision-making can evolve in successful family enterprises.
Eliminating Drama in Your Family
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All families have drama. However, in complex family and family-business environments, the toxic residue the drama leaves can’t easily be tolerated. Fortunately, we know the antidote: conscious, trust-based leadership. In this session, Jim Dethmer, advisor and co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, will facilitate an interactive experience to help attendees identify the sources of family drama and the roles they play.
Since the early 1900s, wealthy families have borrowed from corporate America to draft mission statements or similar declarations to define their shared values and legacy.
Every fine art collector who has worked to build and enrich his or her collection usually has a special work of art or piece that has significant meaning. It might even be the very object that prompted grandma to begin collecting her porcelain rabbits, energizing her desire to graduate to fine art. Or it could be a priceless work, pièce de résistance, of a lifetime of collecting that reveals a fascinating historical account when hearing the real tales behind the acquisitions that family members hold dear.
The U.S. Department of State estimates that more than 8,000 Americans die in a foreign country each year. While some of those are permanent residents and long-time expatriates, thousands more are tourists or individuals traveling for business. For families and their enterprises receiving that unexpected news, the first inclination may be panic. Having a journey management plan that addresses specific protocols to be followed in the event of death while traveling abroad can help alleviate the stress that is compounded by barriers of foreign language, law and culture.
Learning and practicing the basics of money management can have a profound impact on a young child’s life. What parents often overlook, even those who are investors themselves, is taking the education to the next stage once their children get older—say, around age 11 or 12. At that point, it may be the right time to start a conversation about investing. The lessons learned can not only develop the investor and entrepreneur in your child, but also the philanthropist.
Reinvigorating Your Family Meetings
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If you are wondering how it is possible that everyone in your family is offering an excuse for missing the family meeting date, then it is time for some new ideas or approaches to turn these meetings into events that no one wants to miss. How? By planning a purposeful family event that also happens to include the family meeting. In addition, it will go a long way toward increasing a sense of purpose and engagement when it is organized around the right location, meeting format and family bonding activities.