Top Twelve Most Requested Franchise Keynote Topics for 2018
We received so many responses and thank-yous for last week’s Top 40 Breakout Topics for 2018 that we pulled together the Top 12 Most Requested Keynote Topics for 2018. Enjoy!!! Send Me The ListWe hope this spurs some ideas on your end. Please share your ideas and feedback with us and we’ll continue to create franchise convention lists and tips in […]
Ways to Increase Attendance & Engagement at Your Franchise Convention
We just had to share the latest blog post from our friends at Meeting Expectations. We love their work and they share such great information that helps everyone who plans franchise conferences and events. “Transforming a brand vision into fruitful franchise convention success takes a carefully laid out plan. From budget to timing, registration, and venue, […]
Stressed? Franchise Meeting Planners to the Rescue
There are some unique challenges to being a franchisor and over time, those challenges can take a toll causing stress and burnout. Popular keynoter, Evan Hackel, knows meeting planners have a major impact on helping franchises structure their conferences and events to focus on reducing burnout and stress for both the ‘zors and ‘zees, so they […]
Spark Theme Ideas for Your Next Conference!
With 2018 approaching a halfway point, many of you have your 2018 events in the rearview mirror or will very soon. So over here at SPEAK! conversations with our franchise clients are turning more and more to 2019 events. Following those exploratory conversations, several times I’ve sent out SPEAK!’s Franchise Conference Theme Ideas, as a […]
Greg Nathan’s Healthy Franchise Relationships 2-Minute Tip
As we’ve been reflecting on mother’s during the past week, I wanted to share Greg Nathan’s article he sent out late last week about the mums in his life. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did…Lessons from Wise Mums “In 2012 we decided not to renew the lease on our offices in Brisbane, […]
24 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Speaker Investment!
Regardless of your overall franchise convention budget, we get it, choosing to allocate dollars for an outside speaker, is a big deal. It’s an investment, and it needs to pay dividends. Through the years, SPEAK! has compiled tips, through watching wild successes, as well as marginal results at times, to help franchisors get the most […]
Greg Nathan’s Healthy Franchise Relationships 2-Minute Tip
As usual, Greg Nathan‘s latest tip is thought-provoking…from crumbs to cataracts and then on to the connection between change and loss…and on to seeing the positive. Read on…What Has Been Seen Cannot be Unseen “I’ve always been a messy desk person. Actually, if I’m honest, I’m just messy. Crumbs on floors, scuffs on shoes, smudges on […]
Fabulous Franchise Convention Ideas from your Peers!
Are you or a team member in the midst of planning your 2018 convention or conference? We understand both the significant franchisor investment, as well as the once a year opportunity to enhance franchise unity and to jump-start franchisee growth for your system. Based on the stakes, would it be helpful to have a bulleted […]
A Beginner’s Mind
Greetings franchise friends. One of our favorite, dynamic franchise presenters, Dan Thurmon, creates short (less than 3 minutes!) but highly insightful videos each week…from wherever he is traveling. I’ve come to look forward to them! I loved this particular one, on the ‘Beginner’s Mind’ and wanted to pass along. Dan poses these questions: What is the […]
Franchise Business Review: The Missing Piece of Your Corporate Culture
We just ran across this thought-provoking article from Franchise Business Review, entitled, The Missing Piece of Your Corporate Culture. Without giving it away, 😊 here’s a quote included in the article, from the Harvard Business Review about the role of emotions in culture: “Countless empirical studies show the significant impact of emotions on how people […]
