Family Business Conflict
Family business conflict, or conflict among family members involving business matters, can be more challenging than business conflict with parties who have less of a personal relationship and history.
The very nature of the relationships of parents and children often involves a separation of values and ideologies, whether they are permanent changes, or temporary, they change the chemistry of the relationship. Sometimes family members feel that they are "just too far apart" to think they can ever find a compromise, middle ground, or solution that will address everyone's needs, wants, goals, and desires.
The benefits of mediation with these types of problems include the ability of the mediator to guide energy away from the possibility of historical family grievances, toward finding practical solutions for the business moving forward. Having a neutral party assist in diffusing conflict and facilitating healthy productive communication results in creating new patterns of communication, and problem-solving skills. The very nature of mediation is directed at helping the parties preserve, heal, and repair relationships.
Family members can accidentally, or automatically resort to old patterns of interacting without realizing that they may be inappropriate, or unhelpful for the present time. Mediation can help people learn how to get unstuck from these unhealthy cycles. Where parties can learn to communicate in new ways, they may have more success in addressing differences that arise among them.
In addition to mediation and conciliation services, we can provide workplace training, and conflict coaching to assist employees and other participants at the business in reducing the level of conflict at the workplace, and creating a happier and more productive environment, and as a result increase productivity and improve morale.
