01.22.2009 - Dr. Myron Harvey presents seminar to The S. Dale High Center for Family Business at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. Topic: Who Will Lead, and How
Dr. Harvey's presentation focused on -
- The competitive advantages of family owned companies
- Qualities that are characteristic of successful family businesses
- How succession planning interfaces with strategic planning within a family owned company
- Identifying the company's evolutionary status and location on the Sigmoid Curve
- Leadership and motivational characteristics most critical at entrepreneurial, managerial and professional stages of successful family business development
Feedback from approximately 60 seminar participants who are leaders of their family owned businesses:
What did you find most valuable about the presentation?
• Realizing it is ok to go back on the multi family stages in business.
• Very knowledgeable presenter.
• Succession advice.
• Ways we can develop our co leadership.
• Understanding key skill sets needed for the next leader.
• Excellent handouts and reference material.
• That even though we’re a different company, so much alike.
• Everything.
• The need for higher level sales and sales management performance.
• Caused me to think about succession and leadership planning in our company.
• Evaluation tools will be helpful in changing our org.
• Creates organized method of thinking through the process.
• Evaluating the current stage of our company is at and where we need to be heading as far as structure, succession and overall direction in short term and long term.
• Generate thought about planning about the business.
• All the information.
• Thinking about the importance of strategies and succession planning and approaches to them.
• Information relates to our current succession planning.
• Importance of change.
• The education needed with growth and family position.
• The practical steps, graph, etc.
• Insight—working on business vs. working in business.
• The concept that family businesses may have a competitive advantage during tough economic times.
• The material was great.
• Styles of leadership may change in time or the business changes. Leaders may have to change also.
• Very on target for helping me understand our growth and what our next key steps are. Dovetails nicely with issues currently in plan and being discussed in company.
• Handout packet and “roundtables.”
• Involvement of class.
For additional reaction from one of the participates in the seminar click the following link:
http://www.exuberantaccountant.com/2009/01/the-dale-high-center-for-family-business-at-elizabethtown-college-who-will-lead-and-how.html
