Business Partners Counseling
“I revitalize resentful business partnerships so partners can love their business again”
I’m Richard Chandler, MA, LPC, The Business Partners Counselor. I counsel business owners experiencing communication breakdowns using the skills of marriage counseling and executive coaching.
Through the communication tools learned and by recommitting to a shared vision for your company, you can stabilize, restore, and revitalize your business partner relationship so your company can thrive.
Why Business Partners Counseling?
As business partners, your ability to get along with your fellow business owner, and do so without conflict and miscommunication, is every bit as important as it is for married couples. As you might already be experiencing, without open communication, devoid of mistrust, your business partnership risks falling apart.
And a business partnership breakdown can be extremely costly, jeopardizing your financial success and the stability of the other stakeholders of your business, including employees, suppliers, and your customers.
According to Forbes
Key Impacts of a Struggling Business Partnership:
Why Work with Us?
At Strategic Leadership Consultants, Richard Chander, MA, LPC, offers the combined skillsets of an experienced couples counselor and knowledgable business consultant and executive coach to deliver positive results for your situation.
Our Business Partners Counseling solution includes three phases, each tailored in length and contents to your unique situation.
Our Three Phase Approach
No Sudden Exits
- Partners commit to relationship rebuilding
- Reverse discouragement with fair rules of engagement
Mutual Purpose Trust-Building
- Committing to your shared vision
- Gaining confidence in your partner’s good intentions
Assessments for Clarity
- Understanding your partner’s psychology
- Revealing your own and each other’s uniqueness
Meeting Cadence: Frequent
We begin by stopping the relationship bleeding. We get clear on your business’s current reality. Together, we map out your unique path to partnership and business success. We apply insights from multiple assessments to reveal deeper motivations for rebuilding trust. During this phase, the typical meeting cadence is weekly.
Partnership Communication Method
- 3 communication rules for buy-in
- Stop arguing and successfully engage
Discuss the Un-discussable
- How to really listen
- Learn to respond, not react
Communication Field Practice
- Tools to have difficult discussions on your own
- Debrief those conversations for course correction
Meeting Cadence: Regular
Learn optimal communication tools that turn arguing into agreeing and distancing into productive engagement. Talk through issues that couldn’t be talked about without things falling apart. Progress from facilitated crucial conversations to unmonitored ones successfully. During this phase, the typical meeting cadence is bi-weekly.
The Friction to Consensus Formula
- Learning to account for differing perception filters
- Searching for mutual ways forward vs. negotiating
Optimizing Strength-Based Roles
- Identifying each partner’s “right work”
- Supercharging cooperation and rewarding collaboration
Partner Relationship Transformation
- Applying “No going backward” course corrections
- Traveling to future-focused business partnership destinations
Meeting Cadence: Occasional
We’ve stabilized and revitalized your business partnership; now it’s time to thrive! Build momentum with advanced consensus-building communication. Lock in your progress, course-correct in the face of new challenges, and happily travel into your partnership future! During this phase, the typical meeting cadence is monthly.
Ready to Take The Next Step?
We can schedule a no-cost consultation to see if it is a good fit.
Business Partners Counseling and Coaching to Communicate Professionally & Skillfully
Counseling and coaching for business partners can be an effective way to get the partnership back on track. If you do decide to end your business partnership, it may be be done more pragmatically, save you a great deal in attorney's fees through business partners coaching and counseling.
Learn the Seven Pillars of Business Partners' Success:
- Business Partners' Communication
- Partnership Decision-making
- Long-term Planning for the Business
- Goals and Objectives for Partners and Teams
- Managing Conflict
- The Business Partners Relationship
- Roles and Responsibilities
Learn communication skills for more engaged conversations to help repair the current state of your relationships. Once you make repairs, you and your associates can have productive conversations even when your perspective is different. Communicating frustration to a business partner without an argument article is here at this link.
7 Common Issues Dividing Business Partners
- Feeling under-appreciated by your partner
- Feeling misunderstood by your partner
- One partner using partnership resources to get additional work outside of the business
- Recurring arguments about the same issues
- Feeling insecure about your professional relationship jeopardizing the future of the business
- Difficulty relating to your partner’s problems or their difficulty relating to yours
- You or your partner are going through significant life stressors in your personal lives using up time and energy
3 Actions for Business Partners To End Criticizing, Fighting, or Avoiding
- Stop accepting the status quo and commit to proactively investing in resolving your differences
- Have your business partners read this article
- Take advantage of Business Partnership Counseling
With business partnership counseling and coaching, you and your partner can learn communication skills that are clear and supportive, so you can walk in your door and enjoy your business again!
“I help business partners and leadership team members - whose communication has hit a dead end - to restore their business relationship, going from hopeless and stalled out to revitalized, optimistic, and future-focused!”
Business Partners Rescue: Roadmap to Relationship Transformation
Business Partners Counseling Rescue: Roadmap to Relationship Transformation
Phase 1: Stabilize
We begin by stopping the relationship bleeding. We get clear on your business’s current reality. Together, we map out your unique path to partnership and business success. We apply insights from multiple assessments to reveal deeper motivations for rebuilding trust.
No Sudden Exits
- Partners commit to relationship rebuilding
- Reverse discouragement with fair rules of engagement
Mutual Purpose Trust-Building
- Committing to your shared vision
- Gaining confidence in your partner’s good intentions
Assessments for Clarity
- Understanding your partner’s psychology
- Revealing your own and each other’s uniqueness
Phase 2: Revitalize
Learn optimal communication tools that turn arguing into agreeing and distancing into productive engagement. Talk through issues that couldn’t be talked about without things falling apart. Progress from facilitated crucial conversations to unmonitored ones successfully.
Partnership Communication Method
- 3 communication rules for buy-in
- Stop arguing and successfully engage
Discuss the Un-discussable
- How to really listen
- Learn to respond, not react
Communication Field Practice
- Tools to have difficult discussions on your own
- Debrief those conversations for course correction
Phase 3: Thrive
We’ve stabilized and revitalized your business partnership; now it’s time to thrive! Build momentum with advanced consensus-building communication. Lock in your progress, course-correct in the face of new challenges, and happily travel into your partnership future!
The Friction to Consensus Formula
- Learning to account for differing perception filters
- Searching for mutual ways forward vs. negotiating
Optimizing Strength-Based Roles
- Identifying each partner’s “right work”
- Supercharging cooperation and rewarding collaboration
Partner’s Relationship Transformation
- Applying “No going backward” course corrections
- Traveling to future-focused business partnership destinations
Business Partners Amicable Divorce Counseling
What can you do when your business partnership is beyond rescue?
I facilitate crucial conversations so you and your business partner can continue to talk with each other without the discussion derailing. By talking directly with each other, rather than through your attorneys, you can smooth the transition. Facilitated discussions :
- Save money that would have been spent on legal fees
- Get you to a buyout agreement much sooner
- Significantly reduce disruption for your employees, vendors, and customers
Facilitating difficult conversations to work towards an amicable business divorce can be done from the outset or at any point that it no longer seems feasible to continue the partnership.
Explore Whether Business Partners Counseling Can Help
4Please reach out to me, Richard Chandler, MA, LPC. We can have a short conversation at no cost. I encourage your partner(s) to meet with me at the same time too. Doing so as a video call is preferable, but a phone or text conversation also works.
Through our conversation about how business partner consulting could work for your partner and you, your questions will be answered, and you will know if working together makes sense.
Additional reading on busines relationship strategies: "How to Communicate Frustration to Your Business Partner without an Argument."
© 2024 Richard Chandler, MA, LPC, Masters in Psychotherapy, Licensed Professional Counselor. The Business Partners Counselor