AMI helps to create balance between each individual family members’ strong commitment to the family business together with their personal skills and aspirations which always poses a serious challenge for family members. Dr. Yanai’s unique method for career development leads family members in exploring options and making choices.
AMI helps to set in motion written agreements that monitor the family’s conduct on issues of governance, ownership, and continuity. Establishing agreements like these are critical in creating harmony within the family and within its business relations. AMI facilitates the process of formulating family agreements while creating family consensus around the essential issues.
AMI conducts 1-2 days seminars on diverse issues regarding continuity, family agreements, ownership-management relations and other topics. Seminars can be open to the public or custom designed for a specific audience. Attorneys, accountants and family business leaders are often invited as guest lecturers.
Agreements are essentials, but by themselves they cannot always prevent fights. The written agreement must be the final product of a trust building process, in which the family clarifies its values, heritage and vision for the future. Preparing the agreement may be a unique opportunity to discuss sensitive issues and air old grievances in a…
Successful succession is based on a fine euqilibrium between business needs and individual aspirations and capabilities of the younger generation. It requires the establishment of inter-generation partnerships, as well as partnerships among siblings and cousins of the same generation. Our expertise in the development of careers and in the creation of partnerships, together with our…
Disagreements are an inseparable aspect of a complex, multi-dimensional system such as a family business. This is a well known secret! We encourage families to welcome disagreements and to turn crises into opportunities. We help family members to acquire communication skills, resolve past tensions and uncover the the sources of the conflict. At this point…
Board of Directors and Family Councils are necessary governance systems, which provide responsible management of the family and the business, and protect one from the other. We guide our clients through the process of establishing governance systems, help them select external board members and accompany the Board and the Council through the launch period.
For the business to grow and continue to provide for the family’s growing needs it should constantly upgrade its management tools and personnel. We get involved in the design of management training programs, organization structures and managerial processes. We help family businesses to successfuly introduce non-family CEO’s, when the family is ready for it.
AMI conducts 1-2 days workshops, designed for the owners and their families. In the comfortable atmosphere of a retreat, away from their everyday stresses, they discuss issues of continuity, estate planning, future ownership and future development of the business. Often these workshops are remembered as the turning point in the life of the family and…
Young and not-so-young family members are often torn between their deep commitment to the family business, and their desire to fulfill their own dreams and talents. Dr. Yanai’s unique methodology for personal development, helps family members consider options, make choices and continue to develop their career, inside or outside of the family business.