Comprehensive Speech Topics

Moving Your Business A Generation Ahead: Explains the importance of and barriers to succession planning. Features a 12 step success strategy for Family Business succession planning.

Prescriptions For a Healthy Family Business: How to create the most effective family business and promote family business sustainability using professional vs. entrepreneurial management strategies.

How to Resolve and Reduce Conflict in the Family Business: Get the most out of your family business by avoiding and resolving conflict with your family and non family employees.

How to Create a Business That Will Outlast You: A comprehensive look at the major family business issues featuring the 8 Building Blocks for creating a business that will outlast you.

CEOs, Are You Up To Par?  What's your handicap as a CEO?  Learn how participating in a Performance Roundtable Peer review group will help you make more money in less time with fewer headaches.  Features success stories and case studies from Performance Roundtable participants.

Concentrated Speech Topics

What Hollywood Can Teach Us About Family and Closely-Held Business: The unique challenges that family businesses share are often depicted in Hollywood films. This speech uses movies featuring the Corelone, Cavanaugh, and Larrabee families to shed light on common issues facing family/closely-held businesses. The speech explores:

•   The tidal wave of change that will be sweeping family businesses in the next ten years.

•   The most common and costly estate planning mistakes common to family business

•   The vexing issue of how to treat children equally at inheritance time

•   How to regain control when your business life feels like it is spiraling out of control

How to Win the War For Talent: Get the Right people on your bus and make sure to get the WRONG people off! This speech explores the growing HR challenges employers face when attempting to hire, retain or fire employees.

• Why do traditional hiring practices fail today's closely-held business?
• Why do family/closely-held businesses usually  have mediocre talent?
• What do employees want from their employer?

All these questions, and much more, are answered in this informative speech.

Strategic Planning: Since strategic planning has rocketed to the top of family business wish lists, this speech not only has impact but is also most timely. Rivers provides a 10 step process for developing a winning strategic plan. The speech addresses the following: 

• Why vision and values are important when creating the strategic plan
• How to use a strategic plan to produce everyday results
• The secret for producing family/closely-held business harmony

 

 Preserve Family Harmony While Protecting The Business: This engaging lesson shows attendees: 

•  Four ways to transition the business;
• Top down versus bottom up planning; and
  
• Why CPAs and lawyers fail to address family needs and why they are so radically different n approach
  

What Can A Family Business Advisory Board Do For Me?: Discover the six levels of Family Business Advisory Boards and answers to these important questions:

• Which level is right for you?
• What do family business advisory boards do?
• What do they not do?
• Who is on or is not on a family business advisory board?
• How does having a board create a high impact, high payoff strategy?