Custom Business Partners Counseling
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.
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.
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.
Take the Next Step
We can schedule a no-cost consultation to see if it is a good fit.