Family Business Australia - South Australia

March

Tuesday 23, 2010

Managing change and growth in a family business

Change and growth provide major challenges for any business – especially for a family business – because of the interaction of the Family Business systems.

So how can you plan and deal effectively with these challenges; what is the cost of resisting change and what are the benefits of embracing it?

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ONLINE REGISTRATION

6.15pm - 8.15pm

Royal Coach Motor Inn

Dequetteville Tce, Kent Town

April

Tuesday 6, 2010

Adviser Group breakfast - also open to interested family business members

Professionalising your family business (Part 2)

Meetings - This session will address the importance of adopting a more professional approach to family business meetings and highlight instances where families have done this - and created much better results for the business, even though they were sceptical before making the changes. 

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7.30am - 9.30am

Royal Coach Motor Inn

Dequetteville Tce, Kent Town

May

Thursday 6, 2010

2010 State Conference and Family Business of the Year Awards

Morning Session: A practical demonstration of developing a Family Constitution and the benefits of having one

Recognising the importance of the Family Constitution in a professionally-run family business, the Advisers will run a practical demonstration of how to create one. Given Members’ interest in the concept, this session is bound to be popular. We recommend that as many of your family members participate as possible.

Lunch: 2010 Family Business of the Year Awards - (Lunch is included in Conference Registration)

Afternoon session:

Building an effective family business workforce

How do you develop an appropriate workplace culture and management practices that will ensure your family business becomes an ‘employer of choice’ for both family and non-family alike?

Research shows that ‘management culture’ is the area of greatest organisational weakness - with the strongest influence on overall job satisfaction and retention. Therefore, creating a positive, respected management culture is vital to the future success of any business. Family Business directors and managers should be alert to these findings and create a culture that is appealing to both family and non-family employees. The 2010 FBA-SA State Conference will help you meet this challenge.

Following the keynote address of Dr Greg McCann of Stetson University, Florida via video, an interactive panel session facilitated by Dr Jill Thomas of the University of Adelaide Business School will explore a range of issues, including what Next Genners cite as the pros and cons of working in their family business and issues associated with the integration of family and non-family employees.  The panel will consider the key elements required to build an effective workforce where the diverse attributes of all individuals – family and non-family – can be harnessed for mutual benefit. While recognising that there are perceived differences in style and approach of different generations, the panel and audience will also discuss the pitfalls of stereotyping individuals into generational categories.

Conference Brochure & Registration Details

ONLINE REGISTRATION: Conference & Awards Lunch

                                    Awards Lunch Only

9.45am - 4.30pm

Sebel Playford Hotel

120 North Terrace, Adelaide

June

Tuesday 15, 2010

Risk Management for your family business

This session will alert you to a range of issues that could leave your family and your business dangerously exposed if they are not planned for and documented on a ‘sunny day’ ready for implementation on a ‘rainy day’.

July

Wednesday 21, 2010

Family Business Hall of Fame Dinner

Celebrate success and the contribution that Family Businesses make to the State’s economy and culture. Meet the inductees, hear their inspirational stories and support their induction into the Family Business Hall of Fame.

6.00pm

Sebel Playford Hotel

North Terrace, Adelaide

August

Tuesday 17, 2010

How to keep your family business out of the Courts

What can family business owners do to help keep the peace – now and after they’re gone?  Find out what can (and often does) go wrong and what can help you avoid these very stressful and costly pitfalls.

October

Tuesday 26

Topic to be confirmed

November

Tuesday 23, 2010

February

Wednesday 17 ,

2010

SOLD OUT

How to strengthen your market position with a powerful & authentic family business brand

Your claim of being a family business is an important element of your business brand. But what are/could be the other elements that will truly allow your name to differentiate strongly from competitors and to resonate powerfully with customers?

Includes a live case study on how a high profile family business is re-engineering its brand.

Set your business up for an outstanding new decade.

6.00pm - 8.00pm

Bernie Lewis Home Loans

200 South Road, Mile End

March

Wednesday 10,

2010

Family Business Best Practice Awareness Workshop

Join us to find out how YOU can professionalise YOUR business and improve YOUR competitive advantage.

• Understand your business issues & challenges

• Find out what makes other family businesses successful

• Learn strategies to deliver competitive advantages for your business

• Enhance the professional capabilities of your business

• Develop a network of support from like-minded businesses

9:00am - 12:00pm

Adelaide CBD

Supported by

Enterprise Connect

November

Monday 23, 2009

End of Year Celebration & Networking Party

Enough with the learning and economic woes—it’s time to let your hair down and celebrate the fact that you’ve made it through the year and it’s time to unwind! Great guest speaker, great fun, great people, food and wine. Treat yourself —you’ve earned it.

Two outstanding young members will also share their successful succession stories to round off our ownership/

transition/succession series for the year.

6.00pm

Wallis Cinema Complex

110 Belair Road, Torrens Park

September

Tuesday 15, 2009

Ownership Workshop

This will be an intensive half-day small group workshop for family business owners who want more detailed, personalised advice in this often complex area that can have serious repercussions if you get it wrong.

9.00am

KPMG

Level 7, 151 Pirie Street, Adelaide

August

Thursday 4, 2009

Next Generation Focus Group

'How to develop a powerful personal brand - using YOU to get ahead'

You already have a personal brand - it's your reputation: how you are perceived by others. But what reputation do you envisage for yourself? How do you want to be seen?

This session will help you understand how personal brands work and how to define the brand that you want to be. A unique opportunity to work on YOU with a brand specialist.

6.00pm

The Vileroy

27 Kensington Road,

Norwood

July

Wednesday 22, 2009

Family Business Hall of Fame Dinner

Celebrate success and the contribution that Family Businesses make to the State’s economy and culture. Meet the inductees, hear their inspirational stories and support their induction into the Family Business Hall of Fame, proudly sponsored by KPMG.

Our guest speaker, Dr Chris West of Zoos SA will compare some well known family business behaviours to those found in the animal kingdom - providing some fascinating insights and, no doubt, some laughs along the way.

6.00pm

Sebel Playford Hotel

120 North Tce, Adelaide

June

Tuesday 16, 2009

Non-Family Managers for your Family Business

As it grows and develops a family business will need to recruit non-family managers at some stage of its business life cycle to complement the family talent.

It can also be a succession planning solution. Maybe the next generation are not ready to take over yet—or may never wish to do so—but the family wants to keep the business going long-term as a family-owned entity.

Whether you want to replace yourself with a new CEO—or need to fill a key senior position while you’re still at the helm—this seminar will explore how to find the right people to fit YOUR business and discuss the challenges and opportunities in selecting and retaining non-family managers.

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5.45pm

ANZ Boardroom

Level 21

11 Waymouth Street, Adelaide

May

Wednesday 20, 2009

STATE CONFERENCE and Family Business of the Year Awards

SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE... OR NOT?

Should ownership of the family business be a 'birth right' or a 'work right'?

There are strong views and valid arguments on both sides of this equation - but one thing's for sure - you need to get the processes right for YOUR family and YOUR business.

Keynote speaker, Will Taylor of Finlaysons Lawyers will take you on an entertaining and informative guided tour through getting your ownership structures right - so that you can avoid the pitfalls.  Group discussions and a lively interactive panel Q&A will provide ample opportunity to explore the tricky issues that arise.

Winners of the 2009 Family Business of the Year Awards will be announced during a sumptuous lunch - MC Leigh McClusky.

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11.30am - 4.30pm

Sebel Playford Hotel

120 North Tce, Adelaide

April

Monday 6, 2009

Managing your people during tough times

Tough times call for tough measures. But they also need to be SMART measures—things that will not only help get you through the current challenges, but will strengthen your Family Business into the future when the good times return.

Our panel of experts in Industrial Relations Law, Organisational Psychology/Life Coaching and Human Resources will help you develop strategies to deal with some of the unpalatable realities of running a Family Business during tough economic times. Managing these issues constructively now could be the best thing that could happen to your business—and each individual. It can create all kinds of new possibilities.

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6.00pm

Finlaysons

81 Flinders Street, Adelaide

March

Tuesday 24 , 2009

'Innovate or Perish' Seminar

Innovation is crucial for continued success, especially during tough economic times. Mastering innovation will play a key role in the future success of your family business.

Internationally recognised innovation expert, Roger La Salle will share his experience with you and provide you with real take-away tools that will allow you to implement innovation and opportunity capture in your business the very next day.

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6.00pm

KPMG

Level 7, 151 Pirie Street, Adelaide

March

Wednesday 11, 2009

Family Business Awareness Course

This half-day course was developed for FBA by Bond University to help Family Business owners and their Advisers better understand the Family Business Dynamic so that they can turn the unique characteristics of a Family Business into a huge PLUS.

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8.30am

Royal Coach Motor Inn

Dequetteville Tce, Kent Town

February

Tuesday 17,

2009

What’s your ‘take’ on succession/transition planning?

Too hard… too boring… I don’t want to retire… I don’t know how to even broach the subject? We understand. That’s why we’re kicking off 2009 with a session that will give you a whole new perspective.

Make 17 February the first day of the rest of your life. Spread your wings and fly!

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6:00pm

Bowden Printing

26 Welland Avenue

Hindmarsh

Catch up with old friends and meet interesting new family business people at the annual End of Year Celebration - it's always great fun for all generations.

Hosted by ANZ

Level 21, 11 Waymouth Street, Adelaide

November Monday, 03 2008

Next Generation Roundtable

By popular request, this first Roundtable will provide a supportive space to explore the many varied roles and relationships of the Family and Non Family members within the Family Business - and how this affects generational differences; management, leadership and power imbalances; communication, misunderstandings and potential conflict and the ability to grow, change and/or survive in the Family Business.

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6.00pm

The Loft at The Brompton 5 First Street, Brompton

October Monday, 27 2008

Families in Business - harnessing the passion... or herding cats?

What keeps you awake at night? If you operate a family-owned business you have an impressive range of issues to choose from. The unique strengths of family business – passion, commitment, love, loyalty, pooled resources and a long-term strategic view – also create some unique challenges that need to be dealt with in a planned, strategic and professional manner. FBA adviser member Rosemary Freney will discuss the issues and how you can access the help you need to resolve them, then answer your specific queries.

4.00pm

The Brew Small Business Expo Ridley Centre Adelaide Showgrounds

This will be a lively session where experienced Family Business Advisers will take Graham and Judy James of Alfred James Funeral Homes through the issues they need to address and the processes and procedures they should follow to put a Family Council and a Family Business Board in place—as research shows the most successful family businesses (large and small) have done world-wide. This seminar is a MUST for everyone in family business and their advisers, as it will explore issues fundamental to resolving the eternal Family/Business/Ownership dynamic challenges. It will also give every family business attendee a head start in successfully entering the 2009 Family Business of the Year Awards—which are designed to encourage Family Business Best Practice.

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6:00pm

Hosted by ANZ

Level 21, 11 Waymouth Street, Adelaide

Mike Norman, who has worked extensively with family businesses over many years, will take us through the DOs and DON'Ts of marketing a family business. We'll also get to see how and where Spring Gully Foods' range of delicious products are made - and hear the Webbs' family business story.

Hosted by Spring Gully Foods and FBA-SA

Spring Gully Foods 182-184 Cavan Road, Dry Creek

Mike Norman, who has worked extensively with family businesses over many years, will take us through the DOs and DON'Ts of marketing a family business. We'll also get to see how and where Spring Gully Foods' range of delicious products are made - and hear the Webbs' family business story.

Hosted by Spring Gully Foods and FBA-SA

Spring Gully Foods 182-184 Cavan Road, Dry Creek

Iconic South Australian busineses will be inducted into the FBA-SA Hall of Fame - Our keynote speaker will be Mr Darryl Gobbett of Prescott Securities, who will provide a futurist’s outlook for the state’s family businesses, with a global perspective. Darryl’s insight will be particularly relevant to the state’s family business community as it grapples with not only the business and industry issues of other businesses, but that of family business transfer explored by Dr John Spoehr in 2006. Being aware of likely future trends will help many of those business owners and operators – and their families – chart their future course more effectively.

Hosted by KPMG

Sebel Playford Hotel, 120 North Terrace, Adelaide

"You cannot NOT be part of your family business" Many of those involved in family business assume that the business only concerns those family members who work in the business. Not so. This year's Conference is a MUST for every generation and every family member - no matter how remote their connection to the actual business. Leigh McClusky will MC the Family Business of the Year Awards: Winners of each category will be profiled and interviewed by Leigh - hear their fascinating stories.

NSW & ACT State Conference The highlight of the ACT/NSW calendar—our full day state Conference in Sydney provides educational sessions with inspirational keynote speakers and the Family Business of the Year Awards luncheon.

April
Wednesday, 23
2008

Former Olympic and World Champion Swimmer Todd Pearson of 'Mean Machine' fame will discuss how he and his father Bob succesfully managed the generational transfer of leadership of their Western Australian-based family business, taking the busines in different directions and what he sees for the future of both their own business and the industry generally.

6:15am
Royal Coach Motor Inn, Dequetteville Tce, Kent Town

Don't miss this unique opportunity to hear from two of South Australia's most prominent business personalities, Robert Hill-Smith of The Yalumba Wine Company and Bill Hardy of The Hardy Wine Company. They will share their decision-making process that resulted in them either Listing... or Not Listing their respective companies. Catching these extraordinarily busy globe-trotters together in the same room is a fantastic opportunity... it may never come your way again.

Hosted by KPMG

Level 7, 151 Pirie Street, Adelaide

February
Tuesday, 12
2008

Generational change can breathe new life into a business… or it can be its downfall. It all depends on what’s done and how it’s done. Continuous planning and development towards this goal is the key – along with open and active communication and a good dose of patience, understanding and persistence all-round. Lowen Partridge will facilitate a lively panel of potential Next Generation successors and current leaders of successful family businesses. For a variation on the theme, we’ve added a Next Generation in-law who has already taken over leadership of the family business. You'll gain fascinating insights into how successful families in business manage the transition in the context of the three overlapping systems of the family business dynamic – Family/Business/Ownership – and how different generational characteristics impact on the processes.

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Hosted by KPMG

Level 7, 151 Pirie Street, Adelaide