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Communication & Team Alignment for Family Businesses

Strong Communication is the Foundation of Success

At BlueRoots, we help family businesses unlock the power of communication so that everyone in the family and the business is understood, aligned, and working toward shared goals.

Whether it’s a multi-generational leadership transition, succession planning, or day-to-day operations, strong communication prevents conflict, builds trust, and strengthens both family relationships and business performance.

Why Assessments Matter:

At BlueRoots, we use PRINT® and Kolbe assessments to:

Reveal the motivations, behaviors, and communication styles of family members and employees
Identify strengths, blind spots, and potential sources of conflict
Predict how individuals will respond in different situations
Align teams and families for more effective decision-making and collaboration

Benefits for Family Businesses:

Improve communication between generations and within the business
Reduce stress, conflict, and misunderstandings
Align family and business priorities using the 3-Circle Model
Increase productivity, engagement, and job satisfaction
Prepare the family and business for succession and long-term growth

Why Blueroots

We understand that family and business are intertwined. Our combination of assessment tools, facilitation, and family-business expertise ensures your family can communicate effectively, make aligned decisions, and thrive across generations.

PRINT® survey

BlueRoots is a licensed practitioner/coach in the Why of You Powered by PRINT®, a breakthrough model of human motivation and behavior that was developed by The Paul Hertz Group.

The approach is used to enhance understanding of the way people react and how they relate by explaining the “why” behind their behavior – why people act as they do, why they make certain choices, why they are attracted to certain things and why they function better in certain situations than others.

Everyone has core motivations that drive their actions and behaviors. PRINT® reveals what these motivators are and in doing so, clarifies what is needed to bring out people’s best. It helps unleash the potential that lies within all people. PRINT® is a valuable guide to create success and reveal what can be done to face and overcome one’s challenges. PRINT® builds insight into others, as well as one’s self.

There are 72 PRINTS®, each with their own core motivations and behaviors. No PRINT® is better than any other and each possesses its own natural gifts and contributions (Best Self) and its own potential barriers and obstacles (Shadow).

SUCCESSFUL TEAMS OPERATE IN BEST SELF

PRINT® builds understanding – Help to understand and appreciate why people act as they do.
PRINT® plays a vital role in personal/professional development – Provide insight into why we sometimes communicate very effectively and behave quite positively and other times we don’t.
PRINT® paves the way for improved interpersonal relations – Teaches us where we may be bringing out the worst in others, advertently or inadvertently, because we are doing or saying things or using tones or choosing words that “trigger” them.
PRINT® is an essential leadership tool – As managers and leaders, the ability to motivate people successfully is essential, and can be greatly enhanced by knowing their PRINT®’s and what drives their behaviors and their performance.
PRINT® enhances team effectiveness – Successful collaboration, cooperation, and team productivity all hinge on the members of a team trusting one another and building on one another’s strengths.
PRINT® is invaluable during the recruiting and placement process – Knowing a candidate’s PRINT®, their positive attributes as well as the areas that could benefit from growth and development, work style, behavior under stress and motivations.

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KOLBE

Kolbe focuses on your strengths and how you naturally approach tasks and work so you’re able to build on it and continually grow to your maximum potential unlike other personality tests that point out what is wrong with you and suggest how you change it. It does not tell you your IQ or how smart you are. The Kolbe System™ is the only validated program that measures conation on the market today and predicts how people will naturally take action. You get instant results with a report full of customized advice you can use immediately. Working alongside our Kolbe-Certified™ Consultant, you’ll understand your individual natural instincts or Modus Operandi (MO). These four numbers (MO) will reveal amazing insights about how you take action, communicate and get things done on a daily basis. Kolbe is proven to be a valid and reliable tool backed with over 45 years of research and practical applications across all sizes of organizations.

“My definition of success: the freedom to be yourself”

– Kathy Kolbe

BOOST YOUR BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AND PROFITABLITY

It’s crucial to know the striving instincts of those around you. Understanding their strengths will help you work better together – whether that’s as a leader, team member, colleague, or family member.

Individuals – Improve efficiency and productivity, develop leaders, increase engagement, help individuals relieve stress and avoid burnout, unlock joy at work.

Teams – Enhance communication, collaborate effectively, boost performance, forecast how teams will perform (productivity), create teams with the most synergistic mix of people.

Organization – Hire and retain successfully, right people in the right roles, Amplify culture.

Family – Improve overall family relations, Communication (understand each other), reduce stress, unlock joy with your family, avoid entitlement (when family business), understand each others strengths and needs.

Kolbe A™ Index

Index result is your own best method of solving problems and making decisions. You will be able to capitalize on the power of instinctive strengths.

Kolbe B™ Index

Index measures an individual’s perception of their own job responsibilities and helps identify when a person has to perform contrary to their natural strengths.

Kolbe C™ Index

Measures instincts necessary for a role based on requirements defined by the supervisor. This will help when hiring for the role, as it will ensure the person is the right fit. Interviewing and hiring are two of the biggest investments companies make – and the returns are great when you match the right people with the right positions.

Kolbe ™ Comparisons

Help identify conflict, strain and tension to reduce individual and team stress, while allowing an increase in personal performance.

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FACT FINDER

The instinctive need to probe and the way we gather and share information.

Behavior ranges from gathering detailed information and documenting strategies to simplifying and clarifying options. This Action Mode deals with detail and complexity, providing the perspective of the past.

FOLLOW THRU

The instinctive need to pattern and the way we organize and design.

Behavior ranges from being systematic and structured to being adaptable and flexible. This Action Mode deals with structure and order and provides focus and continuity.

QUICK START

The instinctive need to improvise and the way we deal with risk and uncertainty.

Behavior ranges from driving change and innovation to stabilizing and preventing chaos. This Action Mode deals with originality and risk-taking and provides intuition and a sense of vision.

IMPLEMENTOR

The instinctive need to demonstrate and the way we handle space and tangibles.

Behavior ranges from making things more concrete by building solutions to being more abstract by imagining a solution. This Action Mode deals with physical space and provides durability and a sense of the tangible.

LET’S WORK TOGETHER

We help families communicate better, strengthen relationships, and achieve business success. Let our expertise guide your family through the conversations that matter most.

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