Topic: Leadership & Team Building

Inspiring High-Passion and High-Performance at All Levels of Your Franchise Organization

A corporate entertainment veteran, Libby Gill held senior management positions in public relations and communications at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Turner Broadcasting, and was also the branding brain behind the launch of the Dr. Phil Show. During her 15-year Hollywood tenure in an industry known for cutthroat competition, she survived more than a dozen management restructures, transitions and takeovers. Yet with each change, Libby positioned her company to maintain their competitive edge – and emerged as a leader herself.

What can the Nice Bike principle do for you and your franchise organization?

Mark Scharenbroich’s Nice Bike principle connects management to the front line — connects team member to team member — company to customer — and educator to student.

More than passing compliment, Nice Bike is a powerful, memorable philosophy that acts as a catalyst to help build stronger, more effective franchise teams. The Nice Bike principle helps individuals to become more engaged and passionate about serving others. Nice Bike is supported by the three action steps of:

• Acknowledging
• Honoring
• Connecting

Mark will inspire you, motivate you, and validate the importance of recognizing people to improve employee and team performance. Whether you are a team of one or a team of one hundred, you will walk away from Mark’s keynote with a reinvigorated spirit for what you do as well as an appreciation of the team members working with you.

Moving a company or your performance from “good” to “great” is not a matter of just moving up the next rung of the ladder. It’s not like moving next door — it’s more like moving to another country– that’s how big the gap is. How do you bridge that chasm? Own It! taps into the hidden potential inside each one of us and shows how the power of making even one new decision can ignite tremendous performance improvements. Chip covers the key elements – re-evaluation, making new decisions, keeping score, moving the target and the power of attitude and activity. They can transform your team from a followership model to an ownership model. This shift can lead you, your team, and your company to dramatic and quick results why they own it.

It’s been said that until you’ve reached the point of total desperation you’ve never really experienced ‘the edge’ in business.  And Troy truly has lived on the edge on more than one occasion.  His business savvy is a direct experience launching 10 start-ups in 20 years.  This entrepreneurial spirit and experience was recognized in 2006 when he became the leader of leaders as the Global President of The Entrepreneurs’ Organization

It is this real world experience that has led him to truly understand how to FutureProof a business, and in this fast paced presentation Troy will highlight lessons he has learned from being on the edge, and how to prepare your business for a better future. He will share stories of success, and he will also share his own personal experiences of what happens when you stop looking to the future and get stuck in the past.

Troy’s presentation delivers answers to the following key business questions:

• Opportunity or obstacle? How to make the most of the current economic environment and prepare for the future.
• How to break down business barriers created by bad belief systems.
• How to FutureProof your personal vision to FutureProof your business success.
• How to know if you’re driving your business into the future or into the ground.
• Why responsibility equals reward.
• How to identify the difference between fear and greed vs. truth and reality.
• Back to the future – How back to basics can lead you into a better future.
• Change or die

He’s been a franchisee twice, a franchisor once, hosted two hugely successful national network franchise television shows, been a global franchise consultant for almost two decades, and has founded 10 companies in 20 years.

It is through these businesses and through working as a consultant for some of the world’s biggest franchise brands that Troy has learned the lessons on how to predict issues in business before you need to experience them. This real world experience has led him to truly understand how to FutureProof a business.   Brands such as Baskin Robbins, Goodyear, Subway, Choice Hotels, Cartridge World, and Smoothie King have all benefited from Troy’s experience.

In his presentation, Troy will share stories of success and franchise best practice, and he will also share his own personal experiences of what happens when, as a franchisee, you stop taking responsibility and get in the road of your own future. In his address Troy will deliver the following:

• Real life examples and case studies on how to deal with the top three challenges faced by franchisees in the current market.
• Insight on the top three things franchisees are most likely to have to address in the near future.
• He will set participants on a path to take more responsibility for their future.
• He will show participants how to break down their own business barriers created by their fear-based belief systems.
• He will give participants a road map on how to FutureProof their personal vision for business success.
• A checklist to help participants assess if they’re driving their business into the future or into the ground.
• The importance of ‘Back to the future’ – How back to basics can lead to a better future.

Leading people is tough, particularly in tough times, and everyone has an opinion on how to lead and what makes a good leader. So, what is the best way?  Ask a leader of leaders.  Troy Hazard is a business veteran with 10 start ups in 20 years under his belt.

He has served as President on the Global Board of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), the premier, peer-to-peer, global community, network and resource for entrepreneurs, with more than 6,600 members worldwide in approximately 108 chapters and 38 countries.

This group is made up of some of the world’s greatest business leaders, tuning over a combined $120 billion.

In short, Troy has proven himself in one of the toughest leadership roles on the planet.

In this session, Troy will share some of the lessons he learned as a leader of leaders, and as a leader of teams. This presentation also contains a collection of information from some of the planet’s brightest and most successful business leaders and lessons learned from Troy’s own businesses.

Troy will explain why he believes leaders are not born, they evolve. He will uncover the four key character traits that make up a good leader and offer real world business experiences that demonstrate how to improve your skills to maximize the impact on those you lead. Armed with this information you will be more focused, balanced, aware and effective.

Troy’s 20 years experience in business has given him the opportunity to address many business groups around the world on a range of topics. This has earned him the title of Certified Speaking Professional, an international designation awarded by the National Speakers Association.

Troy’s presentation delivers real life leadership lessons:

• Learn the four key personality traits of a true leader from a true leader.
• Learn how to lead in truth, not fear. Learn how to hire, motivate and develop good staff in tough times.
• Learn how to manage rapid staff growth while maintaining control of your team.
• Learn how to have your staff work with you, not for you.
• Learn that in leadership, there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance.
• Learn why leaders are not born, they evolve.
• Learn how to be aware of your own leadership evolution.

A master storyteller, T. Scott Gross will captivate your audience while they learn the true secrets of making work feel good again.

Who would have guessed that good work requires an element of risk and that team spirit can arrive in the most unexpected ways?  Scott literally climbed mountains, sailed the seas, and took to the skies to discover the secrets to building and leading high performance teams.

An hour of compelling stories, inspiration and take-home ideas, this presentation, based on Gross’ book,Borrowed Dreams: The Roughest, Toughest Jobs on the Planet…and What I Learned from Working Them, will leave you spellbound.   Leading High Performance Teams

Sculpting Employees Into Magnificent Works of Art

Sculptors don’t create their art as much as they chip away at everything that hides it. To bring out the best in employees, managers must free them of insecurity, self-doubt and the bad habits that inhibit their potential. In addition to his work as a longtime motivational speaker, Scott has led scores of employees and managers in his own businesses and identified the most common blocks that hold people back, including:

• Negative self-talk
• Fear
• Image concern
• Comparing oneself to others
• Judgment
• Pessimism
• And several more

Scott will show you how to manage with “emotional intelligence,” enabling you to free employees of these and other self-defeating behaviors so they live and perform at their best.

Benefits for your Group:
• Boost morale.
• Increase productivity.
• Promote personal & professional growth.
• Enhance rapport between management and personnel

After assessing your needs, Scott may combine elements from multiple programs or add additional content to customize the best presentation for your group.

How to Turn Low Wage Employees Into High Performing Superstars

Contrary to popular belief, it’s absolutely possible to control labor costs and maintain a staff of great employees. Through careful hiring, management and motivation strategies, you can build a loyal, trustworthy team without breaking the bank.

In this program, motivational speaker and small retail business owner Scott Greenberg will show you how to create a work environment that inspires low wage employees. You’ll learn low-cost to no-cost methods for compensation. The program will also explore generational issues, helping you understand the needs of today’s low wage workforce. Scott will also offer tips for recognizing star employees during the hiring process.

Benefits for your Group:
• Boost morale.
• Increase productivity.
• Promote personal & professional growth of employees.
• Enhance rapport between management and personnel.
• Lower labor costs.
• Lower stress.
• Increase employee retention.

This program can be presented as a keynote or breakout session, and can be expanded into a longer, half-day workshop.

After assessing your needs, Scott may combine elements from multiple programs or add additional content to customize the best presentation for your Group.

For any given organization or event Rick can target his keynote to focus on one, several, or all of the organizational benefits named below. Each organizational virtue results from the rule breaking model which Rick details in his book, 7 Rules You Were Born to Break.

Communication
When being authentic is supported in any organizational setting over the need to fit in, communication channels open while misunderstandings and conflict decrease.

Innovation
When an organization’s members are supported and encouraged to take chances and engage reasonable risks rather than focusing on avoiding mistakes, innovation can occur.

Teamwork
When individuals are willing to ask for help, overcoming the rule of independence, then teamwork becomes a possibility within a group.

Productivity
When the determination to achieve and reach goals is stronger than the need to remain comfortable, productivity results.

Accountability
Workers who accept their significance within an organization bring accountability to their group and transcend the 5th rule, pretending we don’t matter.

Leadership
When building relationships is valued over the desire to force compliance from others and to stay in control, exceptional leadership emerges.

Integrity
When leaders are willing to risk their approval rating instead of being run by the need to be popular, the integrity of the organization’s vision can be preserved and realized.

When Stan Friedman, 20 year franchise industry veteran, directs the Subarctic Survival Situation at the beginning of your annual event, your franchisee’s take home value from the entire event will increase exponentially.  Through this extraordinary process your franchisees will overcome differences, bond with each other and your staff and learn to appreciate and recognize that with team work and appreciation for each member’s contribution, nothing is insurmountable.

Don’t just open your annual franchising conference with blah, blah, blah.  Treat your franchisees to a perspective changing, attitude shifting “interactive” exercise that they will talk about for years to come.

It is hard to persuade people if you are boring to listen to, lack a clear outcome, do not engage the listener and do not ask for a commitment. This hands-on seminar is designed for leaders and managers who must motivate and lead their team to achieve consistently better results and sales people who make presentations and must persuade their clients to take action.

Everyone has been telling you that you should ‘thrive instead of survive’, ‘refuse to take part in this recession’, and to ‘focus on the positive’.   The fact remains that the country is in a hole! And to get you and your business out of that hole, your actions need to speak louder than any words.

Ten start-ups in 20 years guarantees that at some point Troy Hazard has seen his fair share of down cycles in the economy.  It’s through these tough lessons that he’s developed this powerful keynote to give audience participants the tough love they need to prepare them and their business for a more powerful and purposeful rebound out of a global economic crisis.

In his presentation, Troy will recount experiences from some of the toughest economic crunches he’s been in and share the lessons he has learned to rebound and prepare a business for a better future. He encapsulates this powerful message in 5 key steps to take to ensure that business owners and managers not only come out this economic hurricane undamaged, but in front of the storm and their competitors.

Troy’s stories have kept audiences engaged in 16 different countries and this presentation has quickly become one of his more popular. His presentation offers participants a clear and simple path to follow to ensure they have a strong rebound out of the recession and lead the business revolution to recovery.

• Responsibility – Don’t wait for someone else to fix it. Get busy! You are the common denominator between success and failure, so take control of your destiny.

• Reality – Now is the time to take a good hard look at the REAL position of your business. Are you in touch with your truth?

• Review – What have you forgotten to do well in your business, and what can you do to build a stronger platform in your business to rebound into the future?

• Relationships – The strength of your business recovery comes from the strength of your business relationships. Who have you forgotten to show the love to?

• Revolution – Every revolution has a leader. Are you ready to get on the front foot and take charge?