13. What Happens If I Wish to Attend but My Spouse
or Family Member Lacks Support for IBI Global Membership?

While most CEOs making a decision related to advanced team training for management, may not deal with this issue, some smaller business owners DO face stress when precious resources are allocated to the IBI training. For those who are dealing with such stress, this item may be useful when shared with family members.

Gaining support from those you love, typically is a matter of information. Once a CEO and their support team has adequate information about the Income potential inside each of IBI's five annual  training programs, a positive decision point is easier. Family members' confidence that IBI performance gains are self amortizing, such that membership fee's are returned by the nature of the IBI program, tends to reduce stress. Confidence is built by pre-class education. As with any process, the IBI Global plan is not magic. It takes hard work and plenty of follow up to alter the existing income pattern established to this point, regardless of venture side. Process change is required to improve income. Typically, the only way to improve income performance for mission;  requires that planners   gain a) new skills set (or process) b) new contacts and c) both at the same time. Those who love you most (family) may wish to protect you from risk, even the risk of improved results. Yet if you "do nothing" your prior results are assured. Superior training and mentor support is always the better way to improved near term performance process. Still every CEO must apply the IBI support process planning to win new results. There is no magic wand that does the work for a decison making team. Each CEO team must do the work to obtain the results that flow from applied learning in any division or context. As with any choice involving resources and a week of time - CEO family members may not support the idea to attend IBI's retreat, wrongly concluding IBI is a seminar or workshop. We encourage families to attend together - and many do - while we appreciate a lack of support may also occur. We also encourage families to secure enough data to understand IBI is a process of on going support that builds new income into the decision makers systems.

There is always RISK associated with any new performance opportunity in life, and your spouse or home team  naturally seeks to protect you from new and unknown risk.

 One successful technique helpful to families -  used by past graduates is to have your special "others" agree to join a private, two-way information call with IBI Global executives who can explain to them how the IBI Global program works. Such exploratory calls typically win family support for IBI support. It is always a good idea to have those you love and support you most,  attend IBI Global local workshops and review IBI Global video and print materials to complete their own due diligence.

More information =  Greater comfort. 

Ask for a PRIVATE CALL if you require yet another free service pre class IBI service at anytime comfortable for you and your family members.

Perhaps the most popular way to help "core team" to support your decision, is to rely on past results. For this reasons IBI Global posts testimonial video's ( click home page anytime and then the IBI Global Video section link to find the many testimonial video's on line ). As your family survey each class video ( all video extensions are dates of an actual class ) locate CEO's from your industry and with similar education and experience backgrounds. Monitor the hard results reported from program to IBI program over almost twenty years. As you note how consistent the results are, your family members will record how prior graduates of the IBI Global Program made a PROFIT in similar industry missions. Past results from 1990 to the present help family members to support the risk reward decision related to IBI Global Club Membership for the business owner. Also the IBI press secton with print and electronic media reports can be helpful with family.

If you cannot obtain the support of those close to you, IBI always recommends the CEO teams   delay or decline participating in the coming  training program. In some families you will need to proceed on your own judgment and instinct, and show actual  results to your spouse to obtain the support you desire after the program rather than before. Only you can judge which should come first. Only you can know the best course of action for your situation. Our coaches are family valued men and women, and remain available to talk with your home team anytime.

We have seen thousands of cases in which the proof later revolutionized spouse support, support that was  lacking at the time the membership was acquired. IBI believes success unites families while lack of success can divide families. IBI works to strengthen family bonds, offering deep discounts for families to attend our programs together. Decisions for the future are often so large at an IBI week, family support becomes a positive foundation for larger SUCCESS in the weeks and months that follow.

Our guideline is simple. Family always come first in such decision making.