Boundaries and Boundary Issues in the Family Business

The Network of Family Businesses has scheduled a virtual educational seminar with Jane Adams, Ph.D. on Creating a Boundary Between the Family and the Business. The seminar is scheduled for Tuesday, September 20^th at 11:00 AM EST.

In a White Paper found at www.netfamilybusiness.com Jane states it can be very tricky to establish and maintain boundaries in family business. Everyone plays multiple roles as a family member and as part of the business, thus opening many opportunities for boundary confusion, trespass, and conflict, particularly when outdated roles and unresolved conflicts from one domain seep into the other. Jane believes one of the most crucial boundaries for a family business is the line between family and business. The needs of both entities are different, and so are most of the rules, spoken and unspoken, that guide behavior in each realm.

A graduate of Smith College, Jane Adams holds a Ph.D. in social psychology and has studied at Seattle Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Washington, D.C. Psychoanalytic Foundation. She has been an award-winning journalist, a founding editor of the Seattle Weekly, and an adjunct professor at the University of Washington.

Jane is a skilled coach and life boundaries consultant whose expertise, advice and assistance can improve your relationships with your grown children, parents and other family members, friends and colleagues and help you balance your needs with those of others and your personal and professional obligations and commitments. A best-selling writer whose books on how people cope with the problems and rewards of balancing personal and professional obligations, maintain family bonds when distance and difference tug at the ties that bind, and develop emotionally and psychologically throughout their lives have helped thousands of readers adjust to change and create happier, more productive lives and relationships.

We at The Network of Family Business are looking forward to Jane’s insight into this important Family Business issue.

Registration for the On-Line Educational Seminar is available at:

www.netfamilybusiness.com