How to Work With Us
At The Business Partners Counselor, we understand that taking the first step toward improving your business partnership can feel daunting. That's why we've developed a straightforward, structured approach to help you and your partners move from conflict to collaboration. Our process is designed to be thorough and practical, ensuring you receive the support and guidance needed to transform your business relationship.
Getting Started is Simple
Your journey to a stronger partnership begins with a straightforward process:
Take Assessment
Take free Partnership Sustainability Index™ assessment and receive custom report
Discuss Your Unique Situation
Schedule a free consultation with Richard Chandler to begin addressing your concerns
Review Custom Proposal
We'll send you a customized proposal based on insights gained in our consultation
Begin Your Transformation
Transform your communication, partnership and business through our proven three-phase approach
Why Business Partners Counseling?
As business partners, your ability to get along with your fellow business owner, and do so without conflict and miscommunication, is every bit as important as it is for married couples. As you might already be experiencing, without open communication, devoid of mistrust, your business partnership risks falling apart.
And a business partnership breakdown can be extremely costly, jeopardizing your financial success and the stability of the other stakeholders of your business, including employees, suppliers, and your customers.
According to Forbes
Key Impacts of a Struggling Business Partnership:
Our Three Phase Approach
No Sudden Exits
- Partners commit to relationship rebuilding
- Reverse discouragement with fair rules of engagement
Mutual Purpose Trust-Building
- Committing to your shared vision
- Gaining confidence in your partner’s good intentions
Assessments for Clarity
- Understanding your partner’s psychology
- Revealing your own and each other’s uniqueness
Meeting Cadence: Weekly - Biweekly
We begin by stopping the relationship bleeding. We get clear on your business’s current reality. Together, we map out your unique path to partnership and business success. We apply insights from multiple assessments to reveal deeper motivations for rebuilding trust. During this phase, the typical meeting cadence is weekly.
Partnership Communication Method
- Three communication rules for buy-in
- Stop arguing and successfully engage
Discuss the Un-discussable
- How to listen
- Learn to respond, not react
Communication Field Practice
- Tools to have difficult discussions on your own
- Debrief those conversations for course correction
Meeting Cadence: Biweekly - Monthly
Learn optimal communication tools that turn arguing into agreeing and distancing into productive engagement. Talk through issues that couldn’t be talked about without things falling apart. Progress from facilitated crucial conversations to unmonitored ones successfully. During this phase, the typical meeting cadence is bi-weekly.
The Friction to Consensus Formula
- Learning to account for differing perception filters
- Searching for mutual ways forward vs. negotiating
Optimizing Strength-Based Roles
- Identifying each partner’s “right work”
- Supercharging cooperation and rewarding collaboration
Partner Relationship Transformation
- Applying “No going backward” course corrections
- Traveling to future-focused business partnership destinations
Meeting Cadence: Monthly to Quarterly
We’ve stabilized and revitalized your business partnership; now it’s time to thrive! Build momentum with advanced consensus-building communication. Lock in your progress, course-correct in the face of new challenges, and happily travel into your partnership future! During this phase, the typical meeting cadence is monthly.
How to Work With The Business Partners Counselor
Ready to Start Right Away?
Fill out our contact form detailing your situation and we will get back to you with a link to schedule your introductory call. We try to get back within 48 hours.
Take Our Free Assessment
Don't wait until minor issues become major problems. Take our free assessment today and gain your insights to build a stronger, more sustainable partnership.
Enroll in Our Courses
We offer asynchronous courses on the seven pillars of business partnership to strengthen your collaboration on your schedule at a pace that works for you.