Supporting the Family Business

This fully updated second edition provides evidence-based, solution focused techniques for applying coaching in family business settings. Manfusa Shams has demonstrated the critical connection between coaching skills, family business functions, experiential and reflective learning. Edition updates incorporate material on homeworking, family dynamics, team coaching, online business coaching. Featuring accessible case studies, practical tools and techniques, all chapters showcase how practitioners can learn from the coaching practice and the skills, competencies and experiences needed to provide effective family business coaching. The book particularly emphasises interventions which are compatible with virtual coaching to support family businesses to achieve business goals and to retain their competitive edge. Supporting the Family Business is a valuable guide for the continued professional development of practitioners working with family businesses, as well as members of family businesses seeking new learning and development opportunities.

Manfusa Shams, PhD, is a consulting editor for "The Coaching Psychologist", book series editor for "Coaching Psychology for Professional Practice" and an editorial board member for "International Coaching Psychology Review". She teaches at the Open University, England, UK.

1. Learning from Family Business Coaching Practices 2. Family Business Coaching: A Practitioner's Perspective 3. Developing Family Business Coaching Using a Family-Centred Approach 4. Group Dynamics in Family Business: A Focused Integrated and Inclusive Coaching Approach 5. Generating Personal and Professional Skills from Coaching Practices 6. Learning and Developing Skills from Coaching Outcomes: Practitioners' Perspectives 7. Interdisciplinary Approaches and Transferable Skills in Family Business Coaching 8. Coaching Competency Indicators and Coaching Performance Appraisal 9. Team Coaching in Family Business10. Future Directions and Conclusions