Brigitte owns Shift and Flow, a company that provides business coaching and consulting services tailored to the unique needs of family businesses, helping to effectively integrate family dynamics with business strategies through services like one-on-one consultations, family meetings, and workshops. She has 20 years of experience in successfully owning and operating multiple family businesses. Shift and Flow's mission is to help family-owned businesses combine family relationships with business success.
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Gold Star Directors are compensated for starting and maintaining Gold Star groups.
Overview of Gold Star Director opportunityBeth Davis
Overview of Gold Star Referral Club Director opportunity, responsibilities and compensation. Gold Star is a nationwide business networking and referral marketing organization that helps you grow your business with relationships and referrals.
Gold Star Directors are compensated for starting and maintaining Gold Star groups.
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http://digitalinfluence.com.au/how-to-create-a-high-value-scaleable-business-10-keys-to-success/
When you start acting in alignment with your goals, you’ll start moving toward where you want to go.
Need some Help?
If you are interested in building a High Value, Scaleable Business, then I'd love to talk to you. Schedule a call with me or my team to learn what you need to do to succeed..
Click the Link Below to get some clarity on where you are now and what your best next move is.
http://digitalinfluence.com.au/how-to-create-a-high-value-scaleable-business-10-keys-to-success/
Drumroll, please…. I’m excited to introduce you to our biggest, most requested webinar of the year: How to Create Your 2022 Marketing Plan (& Grow Your AUM by 25%)!
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It all starts with an epiphany. Every invention begins with a single “eureka moment” or some “brilliant revelation” that causes the inventor to take action.
These epiphanies become the idea seeds planted by inventors around the world. But we can only wish the process was as simple as adding water and fertilizer and waiting for the ideas to spring to life.
Inventions are not just patents to be hung on a wall. They are the starting point for a new business enterprise. So, not only does the inventor have to figure out how to create a working product or device, they also have to drive it forward, creating a business model that will enable it to survive. And that’s where we come in.
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Key Strategies to Learn
How to perform an early stage benefit/market analysis to decide in advance who your end customer will be. Once you fully understand who your customer is, only then can you begin to piece together your business model.
How to develop a profit-centric mindset, the same thinking used by most successful inventors, to maximize your odds of success.
How to decide if your invention needs to be patented. If it doesn’t, this can save you significant amounts of money.
Who you should be listening to. Advice will come from many sources, but not all of it will be good.
How to best position yourself for funding. Hear it directly from the people who have money to invest.
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Critical Factors in building a High Value, Scaleable Business
http://digitalinfluence.com.au/how-to-create-a-high-value-scaleable-business-10-keys-to-success/
When you start acting in alignment with your goals, you’ll start moving toward where you want to go.
Need some Help?
If you are interested in building a High Value, Scaleable Business, then I'd love to talk to you. Schedule a call with me or my team to learn what you need to do to succeed..
Click the Link Below to get some clarity on where you are now and what your best next move is.
http://digitalinfluence.com.au/how-to-create-a-high-value-scaleable-business-10-keys-to-success/
Drumroll, please…. I’m excited to introduce you to our biggest, most requested webinar of the year: How to Create Your 2022 Marketing Plan (& Grow Your AUM by 25%)!
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Listening
Plus 35 Questions to Achieving New Levels of Growth
2. Thanks for Stopping By…
The following presentation is
little bit about who I am and
what my company, Shift and
Flow, is about
Thank you for your interest in
our family business.
3. About Brigitte
• 20 years experience
in family business
ownership and
operation.
• Owner of a number
of successful family
businesses.
• Strategic and
intuitive business
advisor.
4. Family Business is Not “Just
Business”. It’s Personal
Traditional business advice has always been that emotion
should be eliminated from business.
A cool head is needed to make the decisions that will ensure
an enterprise remains profitable over the long term.
Riiiight.
Until dad wants to retire and wants to leave the business in
the hands of both sons. Or your sister makes an arbitrary
business decision without checking in with you. Or your
marriage is over and your husband is your business partner.
Then what?
5. About Shift and Flow
Traditional Offerings:
• General business coaching
• Traditional business advisors (accountants, lawyers)
What Makes us Different:
• To address the unique requirements of family businesses:
• To address and integrate the family dynamic with business
strategy
The Shift and Flow Mission:
To help family owned and operated businesses
effectively combine family dynamics with business success
6. Who We Work With
Family Businesses in Start-Up Mode
• Ambitious entrepreneurial team
• New franchise owners
Family Businesses in Transition
• Retiring Baby Boomers
• Gen XYZ and Next Successors
• Partners coming together or breakign apart
7. Family Business Issues
Mark Twain once said, "You will never truly understand your
relatives until you have to share an inheritance."
•General Family Business Management and Operations
•Strategic Planning
•Family and Interpersonal Relations
•Succession and Transition
•Leadership Development
•Growth
•Respect
•Trust
8. What we Do
Shift and Flow helps family business entrepreneurs make the
shift from where they are to where they want to be, and
mindfully create successful family businesses that support and
enhance the flow of their family life.
• One-on-one Consultations
• Family and Team Consultations
• Family Business Meetings
• Dinner with the Family Workshops
9. Imagine…
Imagine Your Family Business …
• Where family members get along better.
• Where conflict and disagreement produces constructive
change rather than tearing the family apart.
• Where communications flow more easily and discussions are
full of creativity and innovation.
• Where members are connected to the biggest potential of the
family and the business.
• Where each family member can realize their personal
potential while growing the family business.
10. One-on-One Consultations
Talk to someone who is NOT part of the Family.
Figure things out.
That’s what I’m here for.
A Shift and Flow consultation may be right for you if:
• You are ready for intense 1-on-1 personalized support
• You want to be held accountable for your vision
• You want to drive your vision as far and as fast as possible.
11. Results
Insert a wonderful testimonial here.
session with a bunch of ideas to put into action right away.
You’ll also be emailed a summary of our call. And I’ll connect
to check up on you once in a while, or send you some great
resource and occasionally even some free bonus gifts that I
normally sell or only give out at my weekend workshops or on
my website.
We can work together in person, via phone, or Skype
depending on your location. You are in good hands.
12. Want to know more?
• Do you want to create success and balance in alignment with
your family’s goals and values?
• Do you need to fix a particular problem, like staffing or
implementing better systems?
• Are you making the most of your family’s business’s potential
in today’s economy?
• Do you just need a little accountability to stay on track with
what you already know you need to do?
• Are you one of those people whose family business I could
help transform?
13. Contact Shift and Flow
Call me directly in Canada at 1.403.804.8682
E-mail me at: brigitte@shiftandflow.com
Send a handwritten note to:
PO Box 42276 Edmonton Trail
Calgary AB T2E
Facebook: facebook.com/Shift and Flowbusiness
Twitter: twitter.com/ShiftandFlowbusines
Editor's Notes
After living and working in family businesses most of my adult life, I have a lot of experience and knowledge in the areas of relationships, communication, day-to-day operations and What it takes for the successful transition and transformation of the family business from one generation to the next. I’ve been there, I’ve been in family business. I know what it’s like to work with family members and then have to face them across the dinner table at the end of the day. I know how challenging and how rewarding that can be. I believe that family businesses are THE best place to work, grow and be together as a family.
After living and working in family businesses most of my adult life, I have a lot of experience and knowledge in the areas of relationships, communication, day-to-day operations and What it takes for the successful transition and transformation of the family business from one generation to the next. I’ve been there, I’ve been in family business. I know what it’s like to work with family members and then have to face them across the dinner table at the end of the day. I know how challenging and how rewarding that can be. I believe that family businesses are THE best place to work, grow and be together as a family.
Family Businesses are more than “just business”. It’s emotional, it’s personal. Every family owned company has its own set of goals and challenges. My mission is to help people balance their interpersonal, operational, and financial issues to help family businesses achieve breakthrough success in their business and personal lives. Helping your family business is my business. And Shift and Flow is a family business too. So get ready to shift your mindset and flow your business…
Shift and Flow was founded to address what was missing in the advice being offered to family business entrepreneurs. There are lots of folks offering general business coaching, in fact the industry is flooded with them And there are many traditional business advisors such as accountants and lawyers who speak to issues that affect family business such as succession planning But, none of them seemed to be offering the kind of support and advice I was looking for in my own business. It’s hard enough to co-exist peacefully in a family. Add the demands of running a business, and things get REALLY complicated! Family businesses face all the “ordinary” business challenges, PLUS the added complexity of family dynamics - personality types, different ways of doing business, various levels of need for control. That’s where we come in: My Mission is to help family owned and operated businesses effectively combine family dynamics with business success My training inspires family business entrepreneurs to make the shift from where they are to where they want to be, and mindfully create successful family businesses that support and enhance the flow of their family life.
I help your family gather information, choose the avenues that will work best, plan a course of action, and implement your chosen strategy. I’ll help you take the steps and make the decisions that will grow your business consistent with your family’s dreams and values. I work with you to successfully transition your family business from the founder generation to the next generation and beyond.
No two families are the same. No two business are the same either. Shift and Flow works to provide support and guidance specific for your family's situation, work style and values, your business and the unique challenges you face. good old-fashioned kick-in-the-pants to do what you know needs doing.
One-on-One Consultations / Family and Team Consultations: No two families are the same. No two business are the same either. Shift and Flow works to provide support and guidance specific for your family's situation, work style and values, your business and the unique challenges you face, as and when you need it. Family Business Meetings: A facilitated family meeting on a particular topic or issue, such as: · Succession and Preparing Successors for Leadership · Writing Your Family Mission Statement · Family Business Policies What are the Rules of the Game? · Family Business Conflicts and Communication · Letting Go: Preparing to Relinquish Control of the Family Business · Career Development in the Family Business · Non-Family Employees Working in a Family Business Dinner with the Family Workshops: One of the hazards of living and working in a family business is that you don’t always get to talk to folks outside the family. A couple of times a year we run a Dinner with the Family Workshop where you connect with other family business owners over great food and conversation. We bring a new guest speaker to the table each time and you also hear from the greatest experts in the field -- family business members themselves, revealing to you the many struggles and failures, as well as the joys and successes they have experienced. You'll be amazed how much you can learn from other families companies who might be in a completely different industry or stage of business life. .
Have better conversations, create your vision of what success looks like for your family, Run your business more professionally, with best practices, policies and procedures Build a strategy that works for your business and your life. Identify and understand what is holding your back and create best practices, improved Make your family business the best place to work, grow and be together as a family.
No two families are the same. No two business are the same either. Shift and Flow works to provide support and guidance specific for your family's situation, work style and values, your business and the unique challenges you face. Sometimes you just need a good old-fashioned kick-in-the-pants to get on with doing what you know needs doing.
Have better conversations, create your vision of what success looks like for your family, Run your business more professionally, with best practices, policies and procedures Build a strategy that works for your business and your life. Identify and understand what is holding your back and create best practices, improved Make your family business the best place to work, grow and be together as a family. I help family-owned and operated companies address complex issues that often arise from a mix of personal and professional behaviors and aspirations, facilitate transitions of ownership and leadership across generations and help build strong family leadership teams within each generation to carry on established family business traditions and develop new ones to meet changing times and markets. I can show you how to promote communication and understanding in your family business, provide an overall sense of direction and continuity, and help you outline your family's business and personal goals.
I’d love to have you part of our family. If you would like to get in contact with me here at SHIFT AND FLOW, there are a few ways to do it: Huge Thanks for today! Wishing you peace, love and abundance in your family life and in your family business. Brigitte