Post Graduate Certificate in Family Business Advice*
Part-time only
The 'family business' is a complex and complicated business model. For those
professionals working and advising family business clients, the issues create
a challenging client environment. Most professional training does not deal with
the spread of concerns encountered in advising families engaged in running a
business.
If your client base includes a significant number of family firms - this course
was designed to meet your needs. This one-year part-time programme provides you with
the opportunity to consider all the three overlapping areas research shows are
important: the family, the business, and ownership.
As an advisor or consultant, you need to be confident in handling the issues in
all three areas - family, business, and ownership. You develop your understanding
- alongside those with different skill sets - in each area, through specific study
and application. You work, in an active participative way, to contribute your skills
and understanding to the group, as well as drawing on their resources. You also engage
in a structured programme of continuing professional development. The tutors on
this programme are themselves skilled in advising family business, so their knowledge
and experience also contribute.
The taught modules revolve around key issues in the field: the theoretical
backdrop; family and business lifecycles; values in the family and their impact on
the business.
You gain grounding in the issues, for example, of succession - both its business
and family aspects; on the various perspectives on change for businesses and
family members, and on the effective intervention in family and business processes.
You accomplish this alongside a programme of professional development - you are
encouraged to apply new knowledge and insights as you progress, and then to reflect
on this 'learning in application.'
Indicative modules
- Introducing the theoretical backdrop
- Generation to generation: family and business lifecycles
- Values in the family and business systems: their impact on business
- Continuing Professional Development
Entry qualifications
- An undergraduate degree at good honours level (or equivalent); and/or
- A relevant professional qualification; in, for example, accounting, banking, family counselling, law, management consulting.
Course Enquiries
For an application form, contact the postgraduate administrator on 01242-543206
or ugbs@glos.ac.uk.
If you would like an informal discussion about any aspects of the programme,
please do not hesitate to contact: John Tucker, Grant Thornton Fellow in Family
Business on 07968-429313 or johntucker@icfib.com.
* Subject to validation
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