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Only 34% of couples claim they communicate "Very Well". And less than 10% have a regular annual or strategic planning process.

27/1/2012

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Well, some more facts from our survey that provide an interesting baseline on communication and planning.  

We asked the question "How well do you think you and your spouse communicate, in general?" and  34% of respondents (married males and females in London) claimed they communicated "Very well".  When you consider that communication is often cited as one of the key reasons why marriages (and coincidentally small businesses too!) fail - finding ways for the other 66% to communicate better can only help on the home front!

The other area that where we see a gap in our approach to business and home life is in our approach to planning.  In response to the question "To what extent do you and your spouse have an explicit annual and/or strategic planning process? (Including writing down home priorities and activities for the year(s) ahead and reviewing/discussing them regularly)"  only 9% of respondents claimed "Always".  While this rigour is the norm in most businesses, we have a ways to go on the home front!   Often it may seem difficult to take time out of our busy days to plan - but separating planning from execution is key.  It  ensures that you each are able to input and debate at the right time to develop the best plan to work together on!

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The Marriage Development Company Launches a Fresh New Approach to Managing Home Life

6/1/2012

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Happy New Year and hope that it is a happy one for all.
We're starting to spread the word on our 2012 workshops after successfully qualifying the workshops last year and the great feedback from the beta session.  Today, we are pleased to have issued the following Press Release along with an introductory 50% off workshops for registrations before 31st January 2012:

The Marriage Development Company Launches a Fresh New Approach to Managing Home Life

The Marriage Development Company announces its new 2012 workshops aimed at reapplying business strategy to home life. It aims to develop a new category of proactive training targeted at couples that are in stable relationships helping them to work smarter together.

“Our observation is that many couples could benefit from some of the approaches used in the business world to improve communication, planning, and decision-making at home," said Lisa Chin-A-Young, Co-Founder. "  Often, couples are so busy in their day-to-day, that they don’t take the time to proactively develop a joint strategic plan of where they are going, or to even explicitly chart out their priorities for the year ahead. This leads to misunderstandings and working at cross-purposes, that over time may drive a wedge in the relationship. We’ve taken best practices from business and reapplied them so that they make a lot of sense to use in our home life.”

Training modules have been developed using best practice from global corporations, strategy firms, and academia tailored with the practical realities of personal relationships and successfully beta tested prior to its launch. Workshops are targeted at couples in stable relationships or newly-weds that are interested in smart ways to work together.
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    Lisa Chin-A-Young is Co-Founder of The Marriage Development Company which reapplies business strategy and frameworks to home life.  Lisa's career spans almost 20 years in the corporate world and strategy consulting, across 4 continents.  Most recently she is also Associate Lecturer at the Open University Business School and Councillor at Great Ormond Street Hospital.  Lisa lives in Central London and is thrilled to be Mario's wife and mum to Sebastian & Valentina.

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