Smart Business Thinking at Home - 5 Life Management Strategies for Professional Couples

Smart Business Thinking at Home has been designed specifically for professional couples to work together better at home and grow together.  It reapplies best practice from the business world to introduce 5 Life Management Strategies for improving communication, planning, and decision-making at home.  These form the basis for the 5 training modules of a comprehensive strategic and operational planning & review cycle at home.  

We recognise that life is busy and that often we may be dedicating so much time and energy to our careers that we're only just getting by on the home front.  Or, that we're so busy with the day-to-day tactical activities of the family that we're not communicating adequately or focusing on the most important joint priorities or strategic decisions that will have an important impact 5 years from now.  Join us for a fresh, new approach to managing life at home.   Participants have found these 5 Life Management Strategies and frameworks to be insightful, practical, and revolutionary to their lives!

Strategy 1: Defining your Home Culture through Mission, Vision, and Values Statements
Strategy 2: Agree your 5-year Strategic Plan
Strategy 3: Memorize your 3-5 Key Annual Priorities
Strategy 4: Detail your Annual Operating Plan
Strategy 5: Agree the "What" and "Who" of Decisions

 Workshops are offered through enjoyable and professional 6-hr workshops in Central London (lunch included) or virtually through our 5 downloadable e-Workshops.

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Why does reapplying business strategy work at home?

• Good Communication is critical in both.  We tend to be more explicit in our communication at work, but incorrectly assume that our partner can read our mind at home!  Establishing a common  "language" and common processes is critical.  Poor communication is the main reason why both marriages and businesses fail, and in a recent survey 48% of couples claimed that it was the main source of tension in their marriage.
• Focusing on the tactical day-to-day is important, but not enough.  It's easy to have all our time consumed by reacting to urgent daily activities. We need to also ensure that we dedicate time to the "Big Picture".  That's why we're re-applying business strategic frameworks and planning cycles to bring discipline at home.  As well, good sustainable business focuses on the long run, just like a marriage.
• Learning how to make good decisions is important, and often difficult when there are multiple stakeholders.  At home, decisions can often be emotional, made "on-the-fly", and mis-informed which can lead to poor decisions or lack of agreement.  In business, there are robust frameworks that can be reapplied to life's big decisions (whether to have kids, relocate, focus on 1 or 2 careers, etc.) as well as to day-to-day decisions.  
• Time and Money  - these are limited and need to be managed and allocated appropriately both at home and in business.  Good businesses recognise that scarce resources (like management time, money, and staff) need to be allocated to activities that are going to yield the highest return.  At home, this is also the case - although the ultimate metrics may relate more to a successful marriage, strong family, and health and happiness, rather than value creation. 

Testimonials & Feedback

“Really quite inspiring.  This could be a way to revolutionise my life and get me out of firefighting mode” 

“The unique point is that it is based on the business world”

“It would be quite useful to have a picture of what we are doing for the year ahead”

“The only thing we ever seem to plan ahead is holidays!  Never thought of doing more... but makes sense!"

“I can think of examples where we are just not as efficient at home as at work - things that we would have followed up on for work but never seem to get done at home. "

“It would be great to run meetings at home more like we do at work - a bit less emotion and more effective.  We've recently been trying to plan a holiday with our children and it has been a nightmare... "