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Having Difficult Conversations in Family Business

By 1st Principle Group / January 16, 2024 /

In this post, we delve into why tough conversations are essential to a healthy family business and how to have effective, fruitful conversations.

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How to Help Children in a Divorce, Part 4

By 1st Principle Group / January 15, 2024 /

In our last post, we looked at how to help your child cope and process their emotions around a divorce.  Today, we will look at how to work with your co-parent and how you can disciple your children. Respecting your co-parent as another person made in God’s image, even if you have a broken or…

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How to Help Children in a Divorce, Part 2

By 1st Principle Group / January 15, 2024 /

Our last post discussed how to talk to your child about a divorce.  We will look at how to help your children cope during and after a divorce. Children may feel many different emotions and respond differently to a divorce.  Some common emotions and ways you can help are: Only some emotions will likely be…

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How to Help Children in a Divorce, Part 1

By 1st Principle Group / January 15, 2024 /

God hates divorce.  He intended that a couple would be married for life. We see in Scripture that a Biblical divorce can happen because of adultery or desertion(s). In over three decades of working with Christians, most of the time when a divorce happens, it is because one spouse doesn’t really believe the Gospel.  There…

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How to Help Children in a Divorce, Part 3

By 1st Principle Group / January 15, 2024 /

In our last post, we looked at children’s common emotions around divorce and ways to help. One of the key ways to help children deal with the emotions and stress of a divorce is to help them identify, understand, and express their emotions.  As you do this, it can be helpful to remember that God…

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How Family Dynamics Impact Family Business, Part 4

By 1st Principle Group / January 9, 2024 /

It is important for families in businesses to incorporate their strengths into the business. In this blog post, we look at how to find your family’s strengths and tips for leveraging them in the family business.

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Nepotism and Family Business, Part 3

By 1st Principle Group / January 9, 2024 /

In the third post of our series on nepotism, we look at how to help and love our families without practicing nepotism.

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Nepotism and Family Business, Part 2

By 1st Principle Group / January 9, 2024 /

The second post in our series on avoiding nepotism unpacks concrete steps you can take to make sure you have fair hiring and promotion processes.

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Nepotism and Family Business, Part 1

By 1st Principle Group / January 9, 2024 /

In this blog post series, we look at how to avoid nepotism by creating hiring and promotion practices that combat it while still loving our family members well. We start by defining nepotism.

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How Family Dynamics Impact Family Business, Part 3

By 1st Principle Group / January 4, 2024 /

In this post, we continue our Family Business and Family Dynamics series by looking at steps you can take to build healthy family dynamics.

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