Family Issues...
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Creating a Separate Work Space
Advice on how to make a clear practical and psychological separation between your work space and your home in order to establish and maintain a healthy, happy work…...
Dealing with Difficult Relatives who are Averse to Change
Techniques for communicating effectively with relatives who are set in their ways and find it hard to understand the changes you need to make to help the family…...
Developing Professional Respect within the Family Business
A guide to developing more professional, respectful attitudes within the family business workplace, including advice on what to do when employees fail to show due…...
Marriage Strains: Business Conflicts and Long Hours
Advice on what to do when the stresses of working in the family business start to damage your relationship - especially if your partner is working in the business too....
Moving Away but Still Retaining a Business Interest
Advice on how to maintain your interest in the family business, and perhaps even continue to work for it, if you move away to live somewhere else....
The Problem of Sexism in Family Businesses
How to identify common problems caused by sexism within family businesses, how to understand the damage sexism can do to your prospects, and how to work to counter it....
When a Family Member Wants to Leave the Business.
How to determine whether or not it's appropriate to accept an employee's assertion that they want to leave the family business, how to persuade them to help you manage…...
When Children Don't Want to Become Part of the Business
What should you do if you've worked hard to build up your family business for your children'ssake and they're just not interested in being involved with it?...