Imago in the Workplace - Bruce Bergquist MA

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  • Are you concerned with what has happened to the original vision you had for your product or service?
  • Do you have costly frequent internal conflict or turnover that’s keeping you unfocused?
  • Is yours a family business with a troubling bottom line and relationship issues affecting your future that you can’t find a way to talk about?
  • Do you even wonder whether it’s worth continuing, but don’t know your options?

If you answer YES to any of these questions, FamilyBusinessWorks at the Imago Center for Relationships may be able to help. Know that you are not alone. Far from it. In fact, I consider stress among family business owners,managers, and employees a silent epidemic! Especially in the current business climate!

THE PROBLEM

Most first generation family businesses do not survive, let alone thrive, into the second generation, and the most frequently cited reason is conflict -  conflict caused by poor relationships and communication patterns. Work, even the work you’ve chosen for yourself and love, all too often doesn’t turn out to yield the satisfaction sought, let alone become or remain profitable or purposeful.

Ironically, the most pressing need for such tools is most strongly felt in family businesses. Family dynamics are problematic. Norms and boundaries are not clear. Rivalries may interfere. Past histories get reenacted.  You may have noticed some phenomena of these in your own business.

And when such family dynamics and business tend ot block  safe, clear, respectful exchange of information, ideas, questions, and concerns, the whole organization suffers, family members and non-family members alike. Not to mention the  indirect but powerful negative effect on the bottom line.

MY PROMISE

By equipping you with safe, readily available tools for all circumstances, I will guide you as I have guided dozens of other clients in an approach and practice that will change the dynamics of your oganization while specifically addressing those frequent and distracting daily human interactions the ones that carry the potential for conflict, misunderstanding, and negative reactions.

So even if you are good, even excellent at the various day-to-day practical dimensions of running your business, the tools I make available will be able to take you to another level of success, peace of mind, and confidence.

MY PROGRAM

Now, I know you can find business consultants just about anywhere - through personal referral, through internet search, through directories, even through the yellow pages. Most are competent professionals who wouldn’t be in business if they didn’t achieve a certain level of success.

What makes my work stand out, though, is that by using my background and experience with Imago dialogue, as well as my long career in educational entrepreneurship and mediation, I teach and coach my business and organization clients in the use and mastery of a powerful communication model. This model is based on Imago principles and draws on the best and most relevant components of our Build Your Relationship System. It offers business partners, managers, and employees alike  a powerful set of simple basic tools that are all too often missing in the workplace. And these are tools which are not simply missing in the workplace, they are also not found in the kit of conventional business consulting.

To be specific, here is some of what you will learn about, and more importantly what you will learn how to master:

  • Listening deeply and understanding the needs of others
  • Getting your own needs better heard and understood by others
  • Drawing out the right questions and getting to the heart of the matter
  • Making sure you know why you’re doing what you are doing
  • Being smart in using your resources
  • Uncovering answers and solutions you and your team may already have in hand but don’t know it
  • Helping professional and business-related family relationships thrive
  • Making meetings productive
  • Giving appreciations
  • Creating fun and a spirit of celebration in the workplace
  • Achieving and sustaining strong morale and sense of common and connected purpose

TYPES OF FAMILY BUSINESSES I SERVE BEST

  • First generation family businesses challenged by growth and change
  • Family businesses experiencing midlife challenges to momentum and growth
  • Multi-generation-owned and –operated business
  • Family businesses in internal crisis and in doubt about the future
  • Any business or organization wanting to boost morale, productivity, and energy

I look forward to your call at 908-387-8270 or email so we can see whether and how we might work together.