Are You Ready for Succession?
From Wal-Mart and Mars to the corner store in your neighborhood, about 90% of all U.S. businesses are family-owned or family-controlled. At any given ...
Why Plan for Succession?
Why it Matters, Matters.
If you’re a business owner, you’re probably bombarded on a regular basis with pleas to begin succession planning. You can avoid stalled attempts, dead end roads and a great deal of frustration by following our recommended pathway.
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To ensure success and continuity, we look at the whole of the family and business, create opportunities for building organizational capacity, support the development of rising leaders, and coach senior executives in transition.
We work with leaders and teams on the issues they’re facing now to build capabilities for the future, through leadership assessments, individual and team coaching, coach training for managers and meeting and retreat facilitation.
We help leaders step back from the day-to-day to focus on the issues that impact long-term sustainability, through integrated planning for business and family, alignment of family values and business culture and assessment of strategic potential and current opportunities.
In addition to her professional and educational credentials, Margaret’s experience as a corporate leader, entrepreneur, employer, and business partner, all inform her approach to working with families in business.
Based in Maryland, Tandem Partners has a broader network of affiliates around the U.S. providing locally-based coaching and consulting services.
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Most leaders accept that at some time in the future, their time at the helm will end and the business will be given into the care of the next leader. However, just thinking about the transition can be daunting and overwhelming for the senior leader. If that weren’t enough, most owners experience their own succession just once. Tandem Partners provides the experience and professional guidance needed to move through the strategic, operational and interpersonal issues that are all a part of transition.
When it comes to developing leaders and teams, one size does not fit all. Your business is unique, and has specific strategies and capabilities that drive it forward. We help you identify and develop the specific leadership competencies that make you who you are as an organization and who you’d like to be. We work with leadership teams on the real issues they’re facing now, helping them to see more, be more, do more and lead more effectively, together.
For families in business, success is not just measured in fiscal years, but over generations. Yet often, leaders are so focused on the day-to-day that they aren’t able to step back and focus on the issues that impact long-term sustainability. We help leadership teams assess where they are now, where they’re trying to go and how they’re going to get there. Our expertise in the areas of organizational strategy, structure, process and performance is a unique feature of our work, and integral to our transition management approach.
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