Family Business Conflict
Mixing family with business offers opportunities and challenges. Family dynamics often lead to conflict. Our facilitation and mediation resolve conflicts, enhance communication, improve problem-solving and conflict management, clarify roles, repair relationships, and provide practical business solutions.
Family Dispute Resolution
Our non-destructive approach to Family Dispute Resolution has evolved through many years of working with a broad range of families. We restore peace by facilitating constructive problem-solving meetings to develop practical solutions that satisfy everyone’s needs. Everyone gets a voice and each voice is heard – to resolve issues, strengthen relationships, and promote lasting peace.
Family Relationship Advice
Successful family businesses are based on successful family relationships. If the family’s not good, the family business won’t be good. And, because “Family Business” (as a concept) makes no logical sense, good relationship advice and support are crucial for long-term success. We advise families-in-business how to establish and maintain harmonious, high trust family and business environments.
Family Business Succession Planning
Family Business Succession Planning supports business continuity and family legacy. We guide, coach, mentor and advise key Family Business people through succession planning, leadership transition, and “life after business” – addressing business and family needs to deliver peace and prosperity across multiple generations.
About The Solutionist Group
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein
We are Solutionists and Family Business Advisers – independent problem solvers, strategic advisers and dispute resolvers to family businesses, professional practices and other organisations. Based in Melbourne, Australia and happy to work wherever we’re needed – both across Australia and internationally.
How we help
Business Succession issues.
Communication and Relationship Breakdown.
Attitudes, Expectations and Behavioural Issues.
Family and/or Business are stuck, and going nowhere.
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I was going through my archived emails this morning and I came across this, our last communication from you from nearly 18 months ago. It reminded me of how much work you put into trying to mediate our family situation, and your warnings to us all, should either party decide to abandon the process.
It will come as no surprise to you to learn that after nearly 18 months we have only just now settled the matter – following 12 months of lawyers’ fees, court appearances and the commencement of a trial that ended in settlement on day one, immediately after our own barrister’s opening statement.
Ultimately, we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get only what we originally asked for, and the family has been irreparably broken in the process. It’s been horrendous.
Now that it’s all over and the dust can start to settle, I do want to pass on our appreciation for your immeasurable efforts in delving into and sorting through the challenges that our family were facing two years ago. Unfortunately, our family were inflexible when flexibility was required, arrogant when humility was needed, and unforgiving when forgiveness was called for.
I have occasionally seen your Facebook posts and thought that you’d written those pieces specifically about our family! On the one hand, I’m glad we are not alone, but it also makes me sad to think that other families are possibly going through the pain that we suffered.
If this message helps just one of them to avoid the same catastrophe, something positive will be achieved.
TD, Melbourne
