How to Know If Your Family Business Is Ruining Your Family’s Life
Here’s a quick quiz to help you determine if your family business is having a negative impact on relationships in your family.
FAMILY BUSINESS WORK/LIFE BOUNDARY QUIZ
1=never 2=sometimes 3=often 4=always
My personal and business friends are the same people. ________
When I leave work, I don’t think about it – when I’m
off duty, I’m really off. ________
It’s important to feel personally close to the people
I work with, more so if they’re family members. ________
My performance review affects how I feel about myself. _________
When I have problems at home, it’s difficult to
concentrate at work. _________
I’m open about my personal life with my colleagues
including family members in the business. ________
I’d rather work closely with family members
in the company than by myself or with my own staff. _______
When family members are having personal difficulties
we should cut them more slack than other employees
and make allowance for their performance. ______
My needs and those of my immediate family take
precedence over the needs of the business or my
responsibilities at work. _____
Where someone is in the company hierarchy
doesn’t affect my personal relationship with him/her. ________
TOTAL _______
The higher the total, the thinner the boundary is between your personal life and the family business. You may be at risk for burnout, stress, and emotional as well as logistical overload.
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A skilled coach and life boundaries consultant whose expertise, advice and assistance can improve your relationships with your grown children, parents and other family members, friends and colleagues and help you balance your needs with those of others and your personal and professional obligations and commitments… Jane Adams has spent over two decades researching and reporting on how Americans live, work, and love, and especially how they respond to social change. A frequent media commentator, she has appeared on every major radio and television program. The author of eight nonfiction books and three novels, she is a talented communicator, and an expert in managing personal, professional and family boundaries, dealing with grown children, coping with change, and balancing life and work. A graduate of Smith College, Jane Adams holds a Ph.D. in social psychology and has studied at Seattle Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Washington, D.C. Psychoanalytic Foundation. She has been an award-winning journalist, a founding editor of the Seattle Weekly, and an adjunct professor at the University of Washington. She is the recipient of the Family Advocate of the Year award from “Changes,” an organization devoted to improving relationships between parents and adolescent children. |
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