Family And Small Business China Practice
Mission: The Newkirk Group consults with family businesses to facilitate the formulation of creative executive visions, build effective senior management teams, and empower the growth of intellectual capital.
Results: The Newkirk Group consultations stress confidentiality to enable families to balance the dynamics of personal, family, and business challenges. We improve family and business communications and the family-employee environment. Our programs offer business transition planning, leadership formation, succession strategies, conflict mediation, strategic modeling, visioning, and the improvement of individual competencies.
Consulting Capabilities: The senior staff of The Newkirk Group offers more than 25 years each in consulting to individuals and businesses. We understand the unique challenges facing family business and believe in the power of families and their employees to resolve issues which block growth and business success. Our consulting tool-set includes:
Environmental Audit: Working with each family member, we examine the business and technology environment. We explore the business vision and strategies and evaluate the impact family relationships have on business performance and strategic success. We also evaluate existing problems and identify steps required for environmental improvement.
Facilitation: First, working with owners, senior executives, siblings, and other family members, we clarify the outstanding core issues which constrain performance and explore possible solutions through personal change goals. Then we assist executives and managers to implement specific, self-identified changes and lead teams to negotiate and achieve their goals.
Family Consulting: We engage in personal and team consulting to assist in the resolution of executive, family and employee conflict. We also assist in resolving situations that weaken business performance and threaten family viability.
Strategic Management: We assist in developing strategic action programs to attain a competitive posture that balances family requirements with operational conflicts of business competition. We assist in the development of futuristic business models as road maps to competitive leverage.
Contingency Management: We assist key executives in developing a contingency program that includes succession planning, personal development planning, business protection planning, and personal career planning. We enable family members and key executives to achieve personal plans which impact core business objectives.
Post Implementation Review: We maintain relationships with clients by engaging in periodic evaluations as needed to assist in change management and implementation. This includes continued executive consulting, mentoring, and leadership development. We offer education workshops on successful family business practices.
"The roads and turns of business favor
the most capable steering team."
Gene Kerfoot