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    Custom Programs

    Training programmes designed for one family or business, around its needs, its challenges and its members’ level.

    Family Business Finance

    An executive programme on financial decisions in family businesses: reading statements, planning, valuing projects and funding.

    • One intensive day
    • 6 focused training hours
    • As agreed
    • Read, analyse, apply
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    Programme themes

    1. 01
      Introduction to financial managementCore financial concepts, the aims of financial management and how it relates to management and governance.
    2. 02
      Reading financial statements and analysing performanceA practical look at the three financial statements and how to use them to analyse performance and decide.
    3. 03
      Financial planning and resourcesFinancial planning tools and the role of budgets in keeping the business sustainable and efficient.
    4. 04
      Working capital and liquidityThe parts of working capital and their effect on performance and financial stability.
    5. 05
      Economic and sector riskHow the economy and sector changes affect financial performance, and the risks that come with them.
    6. 06
      Valuing projects and companiesThe principles of valuation and the main methods for valuing businesses and projects.
    7. 07
      Financing and investment decisionsSources of finance and how to weigh investment and financing options carefully.
    8. 08
      Financial matters particular to family businessesThe financial challenges family businesses face, especially when passing between generations and preserving wealth.

    Who it is for

    • Family business owners
    • The board and executive management (if any)
    • The next generation

    Family Business Strategy

    An intensive executive session that helps owners and leaders set the family business’s strategic direction, priorities and business models.

    • One intensive day
    • 6 focused training hours
    • As agreed
    • Thinking, planning and business models
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    Programme themes

    1. 01
      Introduction to strategyWhat strategy is and how it steers the family business towards long-term stability.
    2. 02
      Setting direction and prioritiesHow to set the business’s direction and tie goals to operations and the opportunities at hand.
    3. 03
      Strategic challenges and competitionAnalysing the business’s environment, its competitors and the changes shaping the sector.
    4. 04
      Strategy maps and business modelsTools for designing more flexible business models that can grow across generations.
    5. 05
      Business model innovation and valueBuilding the capacity to innovate and measuring its effect on continuity and competitive edge.
    6. 06
      Advanced strategic planningPractical ways to turn strategy into plans that can be carried out and tracked.
    7. 07
      Evaluating strategy and its impactIndicators for tracking delivery and measuring the results of strategic decisions.
    8. 08
      Strategy particular to family businessesThe particular link between family and business, and the role of strategy across generations.

    Who it is for

    • Family business owners
    • The board and executive management (if any)
    • The next generation

    Institutional Transformation

    A workshop that builds family consensus on plans and equips owners with the best administrative, legal and financial ways to run the company.

    • One working day
    • As agreed
    • Group and one-to-one sessions with owners and the next generation
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    Programme themes

    1. 01
      Family businesses in the Kingdom: figures, indicators and main challengesA picture of family businesses in the Kingdom: the key figures, indicators and the challenges they face.
    2. 02
      Why institutional transformation mattersWhy a family business needs institutional transformation, and how it improves performance, prevents disputes and supports continuity.
    3. 03
      Disputes in family businesses: causes and solutionsThe main causes of disputes in family businesses, and how to prevent and resolve them before they affect the business.
    4. 04
      The best legal form for a lasting family businessWeighing the legal forms available and choosing the one that best helps the family business last and grow.
    5. 05
      The family charter: why it matters, its aims and how to prepare itWhy a family charter matters, what it aims for, and the steps to prepare one that sets the family’s relationship with the business.
    6. 06
      Governance and the family’s relationship with the businessThe basics of family business governance, and how to organise the family’s relationship with the business and share out roles.
    7. 07
      Local and international best practiceA discussion with family business specialists of local and international best practice in institutional transformation.
    8. 08
      The road map aheadBuilding family consensus on the business’s road map, in group and one-to-one sessions with owners and the next generation.

    Who it is for

    • Owners
    • The next generation
    • Board members
    • Executive management

    Board Briefing

    Intensive sessions for board members and executives on governance, strategy and finance, for better decisions and a lasting business.

    • Set with the board
    • As agreed
    • Intensive executive sessions
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    Programme themes

    1. 01
      The board’s role in a family businessThe board’s duties and responsibilities, and its relationship with owners and executive management.
    2. 02
      Governance and the legal frameworkCompany law, corporate governance and the roles and responsibilities that frame the board’s work.
    3. 03
      Setting the strategic directionThe board’s part in setting the business’s direction and priorities and tying them to the opportunities at hand.
    4. 04
      Following delivery and measuring impactIndicators that help the board follow the strategy’s delivery and measure the results of its decisions.
    5. 05
      Reading the financial statements and performanceA practical reading of the three financial statements and of performance, to support the board’s decisions.
    6. 06
      Funding and investment decisionsWeighing funding and investment options and judging the risks attached to them.
    7. 07
      Better board decisionsRunning a dialogue, making decisions and building trust between board members and executive management.
    8. 08
      Family business considerationsThe particular ties between the family, the board and management, and the board’s part in keeping the business going across generations.

    Who it is for

    • Board members
    • Executive management

    A Programme Designed Around You

    A programme the Center designs from scratch for your family business: you set its subject, audience and length, and the time and place.

    • As needed
    • As agreed
    • Fully designed around your needs
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    Programme themes

    1. 01
      Islamic and national valuesThe values and ideas behind family businesses: family privacy, Sharia considerations, institutional culture and the ties between family and business, for a professional approach to family business issues.
    2. 02
      Legal and regulatory knowledgeThe laws and regulations that bear on family businesses, including company law, governance, roles and responsibilities, to understand the regulatory setting they work in.
    3. 03
      Management and financeCore knowledge of finance, management and strategy, such as reading performance, planning and supporting investment and organisational decisions, for a business that lasts and grows.
    4. 04
      Skills and emotional intelligenceLeadership and behavioural skills such as communication, running a dialogue, decision-making and building trust, so owners, management and the next generation work well together.
    5. 05
      Understanding the needA first questionnaire that maps where the business stands and its main challenges.
    6. 06
      Designing the contentThe programme is designed around the business’s challenges, with its subject, audience and length chosen to fit.
    7. 07
      Delivering the programmeThe Center delivers it at the time and place that suit the family business.
    8. 08
      EvaluationMeasuring participants’ satisfaction after the programme.

    Who it is for

    • Family business owners
    • The board and executive management (if any)
    • The next generation

    Private Family Trips

    A trip the Center organises for one family: the family chooses the destination and the training that suits it, and the Center delivers that training during the trip.

    • Set with the family
    • Chosen by the family
    • Training for the family
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    Programme themes

    1. 01
      The placeThe family chooses the destination that suits it.
    2. 02
      The trainingThe family picks the programme it wants from the Center's programmes, or one designed for it.
    3. 03
      Length and scheduleThe trip’s length and training schedule are agreed with the family.
    4. 04
      OrganisationThe Center organises the trip and delivers its training with the family.
    5. 05
      The contentThe training content is shaped around the family and its business.
    6. 06
      Who takes partThe family decides which of its members and generations take part.

    Who it is for

    • Family members across the generations
    • Family business owners
    • The next generation