Finding Fairness in Farm Transition
High land values are keeping farm families stuck. Do you want your farm business to remain intact for the next generation? Most do. Do you want the family to get along and come home for gatherings? Most do. What most farms don’t do is break down assumptions, have robust respectful family meetings and discover the expectations of ALL family members.
This video highlights Elaine’s acronym F.A.I.R. (Financial transparency, Attitude towards money, Intentions, and Roles and rebels). Learn how to help everyone in the family be successful.
Kick Starting Succession Planning Conversations
Elaine’s superpower is mapping out your family map, noting the dynamics, ages, stages, who is on-farm and who is a non-business heir. She nails down the key challenges and leads you to transparent respectful conversations, culminating in a transformative family meeting.
Her actionable next steps create a pathway for change that is doable and supported by her expertise. She’ll save you heaps of money BEFORE you visit the accountant and lawyer to talk about your transition or succession plan.
Learn how to create courageous conversations, gain new tools for talking through tough issues, and start your succession planning binder.
Transition Planning Secrets of Success for Founders
Interview with Tracy Brunet and Elaine Froese
Throughout the episode, Elaine shares the best of her wisdom from over forty years of helping families transition their farm to the next generation. Tracy Brunet, President of Impact Farm Marketing, and Elaine Froese chat about common mistakes and best practices, and they highlight four big key questions that founders should be thinking about to transition the farm.
Are you the founding generation of the farm? If so, you will not want to miss this episode and the wisdom that Elaine shares to get you started or unstuck on your farm transition journey.
Transition Planning Secrets of Success for Generation 2
Interview with Tracy Brunet and Elaine Froese
Are you a Gen 2 Successor? Do you feel like your farm transition plan is stuck in neutral? Maybe your parents refuse to discuss the subject, leaving you frustrated, resentful, and fearful for your future. If so, this episode is right for you. First off, it doesn’t need to be this way. Secondly, you don’t have to travel this path alone. This podcast will help get the next generation unstuck.
In this episode, Elaine illustrates critical areas and actions that you as a Gen 2 should be focused on to start courageous conversations and move the needle forward on your dreams.
Farm Culture Beats Strategy
Interview with Tracy Brunet and Elaine Froese
Elaine defines culture as the invisible glue that holds a business or a family team together. She states that agriculture is definitely a culture. She has created a three-part framework (Believe. Behave. Decide.) to help our viewers learn about and create a strong culture on their farm.
Elaine shares thought provoking insights on how the differences between farm family team members can either cause challenges and/or complement each other to build an even stronger farm family team.
Do you farm with family members? Whether it’s your spouse or a multigenerational farm family, please do yourself a favour and watch this episode. The principles within Elaine’s message can mean the difference between harmony and conflict on your farm, and at the end of the day, it can even mean the difference between the family farm continuing on or failing due to personal conflict.
Managing Generational Expectations: Discuss the UndiscussabullTM
Many farmers ask Elaine “How can we get folks to the table to talk?” Often the conflict and high tension around the uncertainty of the future of the farm is keeping people tense and unsure of how to start courageous conversations. Yet, it’s the conversations that will give breakthroughs – once you deal with the “bull” in the middle of the room.
In this video, Elaine covers the Discuss the Undiscussabull™ Approach that provides 10 practical steps to start crucial conversations for transition and conflict resolution.
Elaine’s tools give your audience the strategies they need to improve communication within their farm family. She’ll help audit key challenges. The audience will learn how to deal with resistance and listen to their head, heart, and gut. They will gain insight into tough succession issues to have life-changing conversations – finally!
Long Term Wealth, Farm Liquidity Solutions & Succession Planning
AGvisorPRO Webinar with Elaine Froese
Farm families are stuck when it comes to getting folks to the kitchen table to talk about timelines for transition of labour, management and ownership of the farm. Watch this webinar and learn all about wealth planning and management, taxation and difficult transitions on your farm.
Featuring a great panel of speakers including CEO/Founder of AGvisorPRO – Robert Saik, CEO/Founder of 33Seven – Derryn Shrosbree, Dean Klippenstine – Partner and Business Advisor at MNP, and Elaine Froese – Author, coach and farm family transition expert.
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