The Day the Lights Went Out – Healthy Franchise Relations Tip #100
This week we are celebrating the 100th Healthy Franchise Relationships Tip from Greg Nathan! We consistently get great feedback from so many folks in the North American franchise community on these pithy, insightful and thought provoking ‘Tips’. Quite often, franchisors write in and let us know how they have used a particular tip to stimulate […]
Ignite Your Goals!
Gerry O’Brion gives unbelievable presentations to empower your company to achieve goals. We asked him to put together a Kwik-Tips distillation that could really get people started – this gives just a taste of the remarkable value and insight that Gerry offers! Ignite Your Goals! Six secrets to accelerating franchisee growth By Gerry O’Brion “I’m swamped! […]
They’re Back and They’re Taking Over. Are We Ready? – Healthy Franchise Relations Tip #99
Welcome to Summer everyone! Interacting with friends and family over the holiday weekend may be an immediate reminder for some of us that the generation gap can initiate all manner of communication snafus and misunderstandings! In business, this can bring operations to a standstill – luckily Greg Nathan has some great information to help transform […]
Common Sense Insights to Improve Your Sales and Marketing Results
Today's post is by one of most in-demand speakers, Ford Saeks. Our client's love working with Ford because he absolutely understands what actionable tools are relevant to franchisee audiences and how to deliver those tools in an engaging and exciting way. Ford also works with franchisor organizations and today's post is all about revisiting a […]
Mastering the Art of Effective Facilitation
Picture credit from Kevin Kuhne's Book Illustrations One of the things that really stood out at this year’s Faegre Baker Daniels Franchise Summit was watching great facilitators at work. The Leading Edge team of Carol Grannis and Cindy Maher are professional adult educators and a big part of their remarkable delivery is their razor-sharp facilitation skills. […]
How Creative Franchise Meetings Can Translate Your Brand
I recently attended an event put on by Bonnie Siegel and her team at ASE Group, and after being ‘WOWED’ by the attention to detail and overall fabulousness of the meeting, I wanted to extract some knowledge out of her head that would be helpful to other franchise systems that are knee-deep in meeting planning […]
We Need to Talk…It's About Your Chronic Procrastination
Okay, I have to admit, I’ve been procrastinating on a big project. In fact, what I have been pushing off is sitting down and organizing our blog posts for the next few months. So this morning, while actively procrastinating (see above and insert ‘email’ for ‘internet’) I sent my good friend Lee Plave a note […]
Improved Attitude, Improved Life
I loved today’s thought from Ralph Marston so much, I printed it and taped it to my monitor. Just being reminded that, “no matter how good and positive your attitude may be, you can improve it!”, created a fabulous shift in my thinking for the day. Taking a moment to focus on the very best possibilities […]
Is Your Next Motivational Speaker Living in a Van Down by the River?
We are all constantly facing challenges in our day-to-day experiences and sometimes might even feel like we are losing ground. Whenever I feel like I'm not achieving my goals or things aren't coming together like I had hoped, I remind myself how lucky I am to work in an industry that is propelled by positivity, growth and progress. The […]
What Do Dog Training and Franchising Have in Common?
You probably know by now that the SPEAK! team is a bunch of dog lovers. So when I draw comparisons between leadership, training and education for our beloved four-leggeds and our respected human team members of a franchise system (from employees to franchisees), please know that it’s a HUGE compliment in my eyes. Being that […]
