- 17-12-2017 04:29
- Velizar Petrov
You have a
successful business, but you are already thinking - one day to whom and how to
leave it? Whether children will cope? Will they want it? Which one or all of
them? ... And maybe it's better to entrust it to an external manager...
There is no
single answer to these questions. There is no best solution. Everything is
individual, specific ... You can do it yourself, but you can also look for
external, neutral support in order for the whole process of inheritance,
succession and/or transfer to go without any disruption. ...
Sometimes
it is much better when there is someone who can look at things from outsides
and impartially to give advice because in the family business the ordinary
business relationships have long been deeply entangled with purely human,
interpersonal relationships in the family. If there are problems in the family,
they often also affect the management of the family business. Even the
differences between generations can play a bad joke....
Along with
these questions also arise purely personal - whether I as the owner I am
willing to give the rudder to someone else? Can I trust? For us, the children
will always be children and we can hardly judge whether they are big enough and
prepared to "fly". But whether the staff who yanked your son or
daughter yesterday will be ready to look seriously at them as full-fledged
family business executives?
Here is the
place of independent consultants and intermediate companies, including RDA BSC
SMEs (Regional Development Agency with Business Support Centre for Small and
Medium-sized Enterprises - Plovdiv). They can support the whole process of
inheritance-succession/transfer, and give external opinion and perspective, be
a mediator between generations in the family. They can offer appropriate
trainings and consultations, be business mentors, coaches, gurus for
businessmen. They can build TRUST so that everything can happen in the best
way.
How to help
intermediary organizations and how to prepare the appropriate strategies and
policies in order for the business environment to be favourable and conducive
to the smooth running of this whole process of succession and/or transfer was
the topic of the next STOB regions partnership meeting, held in Cracow (Poland)
in December.
The
partners also exchanged good practices, discussed possible policies. They
helped to create and discuss the SWOT analysis of the Malopolska region
(Poland).
The next
meeting will be in Bulgaria, in Plovdiv, in March 2018, and we will be the host
- RDA BSC SMEs (Regional Development Agency with Business Support Centre for
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises - Plovdiv)
For more
information:
0878 / 461438