Business Family Fundamentals
Business Family Fundamentals™ is our online, virtual learning course. It provides a detailed understanding of fundamental dynamics and decision-making processes in a family business system. It is designed as a self-paced learning experience, giving you time to reflect on the material between segments.
There are three versions of the online course:
Version for Family Members
For all Business Family Members, working or not in the family enterprise: owner-founder, CEO, spouse, in-law, young adult, successor generation. Also useful to non-Family Executives working in the family enterprise.
Length: Approx. 5 hours, self-paced
Cost: USD 150.00
Version for Professionals working with/in business families
For all Professionals working with or in family businesses, whether they are senior executives, lawyers, accountants, tax specialists, management consultants, managers, advisors, members of Board of Directors, estate planners or others.
Length: Approx. 15 hours, self-paced
Cost: USD 495.00
Also available in: French, Spanish
BFF is listed as a provider of continuing professional development learning activities.
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Version for Educators and Students
For Collegial and University-level students.
Length: Approx. 1 hour per module, self-paced
Cost: USD 30.00 per module or USD 75.00 for the total package of Modules 1, 2 and 3.
Benefits of the BFF online courses/modules
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Excellent preparation before attending face-to-face programs and workshops, or as a wrap-up after attending face-to-face programs and workshops
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Flexibility: you can take it at any time of the day and at any place that has an Internet connection
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Pacing: you can stop and resume when you want
Useful consideration
Both the online course version for Family Members and the one for Professionals cover the same concepts, tools and case story to enable a fruitful discussion between family members and their advisors who are educating themselves through the online course. The Family Members version is shorter and more focused on emotions, while the Professional version is broader and introduces risk analysis and additional expert experiences.
Testimonials
“Excellent and valuable training, never expected to be of this high quality and easy to understand and retain the information within the course.”
“Excellent coverage and presentation. Very professionally done. I like the video case approach.”
“Loved the pace, the content and the interactive nature of the course.”
“The Dupont case study was very interesting and really made the connections for me with the material that was presented. Real life examples are a great way to get the learner into the subject and I enjoyed it. ”
“The story of the Dupont Family was really interesting and I think that using a story as an example of all the topics helps to better understand each one.”
“The Three Circles Model, and the way it is explained. The history of the Dupont family is really interesting and helps a lot to understand the topics.”
“Well balanced: audio, video, exercises, tools, etc.”
“It was easy to understand and filled with valuable information.”
“Very organized and easy to follow.”
“Easy to navigate and a wealth of relevant information.”
“Excellent! I believe it provides you with the right amount of information and concepts, and at the same time it does it in a very fun way.”
“The course has a lot of material that is going to be useful when training a family business member.”
“The Shareholder Agreement, I found the most interesting.”
“The on-going story of the Duponts was very helpful.”
“The combination of experienced speakers and theory.”
“The family values exercise; the five risks areas.”
“The Chateau Dupont, the opinions of experts and all the materials.”
“The actual family cycle, the succession dynamics, the importance of external people in the Company.”
“Of course the video was a useful tool to explain the concepts. And the recurring items in each unit, like: objectives, concepts, key dilemmas, "What did we learn in this unit", and "helpful practices".”
“I liked the structure and all the models the course includes.”
“I think that the course provides a general overview about the family business dynamics. It is a good course as it provides the basics for understanding this phenomenon.”
“It is an excellent course. I look forward to more examples of different family businesses, even larger ones.”
