In today’s fast-paced environment, running and growing a business has its challenges.- Add to that the tough decisions necessary to ensure continuity of a family business, and you can easily see it’s hard just to stay ahead. Being fresh is extremely important - a “must do” if you are to remain current and competitive.
In this high-energy, high-content session, attendees receive valuable concepts, strategies, and fresh approaches, leading them on a path to continued success. Whether it’s keeping a legacy alive for future generations, growing their business, or even planning an exit strategy, this idea-packed presentation will energize family members in business together to tackle each challenge.
Laura Michaud will personalize a lively, quick-to-the-point session that shares new tools and fresh approaches specific to family-business situations--without keeping attendees away from their offices for too long. These vital ideas come in a lively, rapid-fire manner, so attendees can pick the ones that make sense for them to put in place immediately or explore further.
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This high-impact and enlightening session guarantees that attendees will walk away with tools they can use right away. Energetic and informative, it leaves audiences feeling upbeat and empowered. It is appropriate for members of a family business or for anyone who works with one.
The results
In the span of one or two hours, depending on the format you choose, attendees will take away insightful and practical ideas in the areas of family business management, communication, systems and strategies for family businesses, and much more.
Spouse or partner relationships are built on love, but living and working with a partner can lead to difficult moments or even deep-rooted challenges. It’s hard to separate business and home life, and particularly tough to shift gears between the two at any particular time. The situation can become even more complex with the next generation, as in-laws or other family members become involved. Therapists try to help, but many do not have the expertise or sensitivity needed to understand how working in a family business contributes to the challenge.
The good news is there is support – as well as proven tools to ensure you work peacefully and successfully alongside your partner.
Laura Michaud can help. In this thought-provoking and engaging program, Laura will share important tools, plans, and techniques that lay a foundation for high performance and growth in business while keeping harmony at home.
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This insightful, pertinent, and interactive program has been applauded by a multitude of family business audiences. With real-life stories, case studies, and interactive tools to drive home key points, it is tailored for spouse teams and other family business audiences.
The Results
Whether you choose a keynote format (30 minutes) or a break-out session/workshop (two hours), attendees will walk away with specific strategies and tools to put their business on track for growth while keeping their families living in harmony.
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Laura Michaud was a third-generation owner and marketing executive of Beltone Electronics, one of the largest hearing aid companies in the world. During her nearly 20-year tenure at the company, she grew sales by more than 300 percent to attain $150 million in revenue. In 1997, when the family decided to sell the business for estate reasons, Laura was the chosen successor and was training to take the helm. Her personal experience, along with her multi-faceted knowledge of the challenges family businesses face, is at the root of her success as a family business advisor and presenter.
For a family business to survive and thrive, it needs to overcome serious odds: Only 33 percent of all family businesses make it to the second generation, and 16 percent are passed on to the third generation.
Laura Michaud’s Family Business 101 covers proven do’s and don’ts on how to run a prosperous family business where you work with the ones you love. This program will teach attendees how to set the stage for success, from family member entry to establishing special policies and guidelines. Bottom line, Family Business 101 will give you all the techniques and strategies that are key to future success.
Hundreds of family businesses have rated this program as a must-attend for newly formed family businesses or for owners who are thinking of bringing in additional family members. It shares proven techniques used by families in all stages of business growth and continuity. Learn how to beat the odds by building a business that will not just survive family-specific challenges, but thrive on them!
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This interactive and information-packed program uses real-life case studies for attendees to analyze and work on delivering impactful strategies that have worked dynamically for thousands of family businesses.
The Results
Whether you choose the abbreviated 30-minute keynote or the full three-hour session, attendees will walk away with practical tools and solutions that can be put to work immediately. This session will help any family member or advisor committed to avoiding the daunting failure rate of businesses undergoing family transition.
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Laura Michaud was a third-generation owner and marketing executive of Beltone Electronics, one of the largest hearing aid companies in the world. During her nearly 20-year tenure at the company, she grew sales by more than 300 percent to attain $150 million in revenue. In 1997, when the family decided to sell the business for estate reasons, Laura was the chosen successor and was training to take the helm. Her personal experience, along with her multi-faceted knowledge of the challenges family businesses face, is at the root of her success as a family business advisor and presenter.
A smoothly run, family-owned business requires top-notch relations between both family and non-family employees. Unfortunately, many family members in business together have difficulty transcending childhood roles and getting along in a business-like manner. Additional issues arise when non-family employees are unsure how to interact with family members who join the business.
In this popular, fun, and eye-opening seminar, Laura Michaud teaches attendees profound ways to improve business and personal relationships in order to lay the foundation for high performance and business growth.
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This impactful presentation has garnered the praise of many organizations and industries. Introducing a proven self-assessment activity adopted by organizations worldwide, along with case studies and personal stories, this session is designed for family members inside and out of the family business, non-family advisors, and non-family key employees.
The results
Whether you choose the 90-minute session or the full three-hour program, your attendees will walk away with a new understanding of various communication styles, a renewed appreciation of family members, and tools to keep conflict at a minimum and ensure forward growth.
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Laura Michaud was a third-generation owner and marketing executive of Beltone Electronics, one of the largest hearing aid companies in the world. During her nearly 20-year tenure at the company, she grew sales by more than 300 percent to attain $150 million in revenue. In 1997, when the family decided to sell the business for estate reasons, Laura was the chosen successor and was training to take the helm. Her personal experience, along with her multi-faceted knowledge of the challenges family businesses face, is at the root of her success as a family business advisor and presenter.
Do you think your family-owned business is strong enough to survive two, three, or even four generations? It may be, but consider this: Only one third of family-owned businesses make it through the second generation, and it goes downhill from there. The odds wouldn’t be so dire if current business owners tackled one important detail: Succession planning.
Is succession planning difficult? Not at all. Laura Michaud can help you embrace the process in this motivating and practical presentation. Attendees will learn an easy eight-step succession planning process that will ensure the right successor is chosen and that your business continues for multiple generations.
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This in-depth session walks attendees through the succession planning process. Along the way, they complete milestone activities and deadlines, creating a draft plan modeled on proven succession strategies from a multitude of industries. Attendees will fully understand what is involved in creating a fully fleshed-out plan and how long it will take. Having been chosen successor when her own family’s business used this process, Laura intimately knows its inner workings.
The results
The best part of this session is that attendees will walk away with a personalized draft plan that they can use to launch their succession initiative. This presentation is best as a two- to three-hour session, with the entire family in attendance. The session can be condensed into a 90-minute, fast-paced format, if less detail is acceptable in the draft plan.
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Laura Michaud was a third-generation owner and marketing executive of Beltone Electronics, one of the largest hearing aid companies in the world. During her nearly 20-year tenure at the company, she grew sales by more than 300 percent to attain $150 million in revenue. In 1997, when the family decided to sell the business for estate reasons, Laura was the chosen successor and was training to take the helm. Her personal experience, along with her multi-faceted knowledge of the challenges family businesses face, is at the root of her success as a family business advisor and presenter.
Recent studies show that more than 50 percent of employees in the United States experience high levels of stress, which actually multiplies in family businesses. Traditionally, family members feel more stress due to the additional challenges inherent in family-run concerns. -Things such as business downturns, the pressure of extra work that must be attended to (death or succession and estate planning, for instance), or the successful entry of a family member into the business.
People who work with their families also know how hard it is to find time for themselves because family and business merge on a daily basis. Bottom line, balancing work and family life requires a special set of tools.
Relief is here. Laura Michaud teaches how to mitigate stressors and help family business members find the right balance in order to achieve harmony and happiness, while reducing the stress that occurs when the family is in business together. As a third-generation business owner, Laura knows first-hand how stress can impact life in the family business and how to overcome it.
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This energetic, fun and informative, “stress-free” session offers specific stress-reducing techniques-, and in-session exercises that have proven to work. The tactics you will learn translate to both personal and business stress-reduction success – and, the best thing, they can be used right away.
The results:
Whether you choose the abbreviated 30-minute keynote session or book the full two-hour presentation, attendees will walk away with practical tips to use or share with family members and apply to any work-life balance situation.
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Laura Michaud was a third-generation owner and marketing executive of Beltone Electronics, one of the largest hearing aid companies in the world. During her nearly 20-year tenure at the company, she grew sales by more than 300 percent to attain $150 million in revenue. In 1997, when the family decided to sell the business for estate reasons, Laura was the chosen successor and was training to take the helm. Her personal experience, along with her multi-faceted knowledge of the challenges family businesses face, is at the root of her success as a family business advisor and presenter.
