Drum Café: Hands-On Team Building Like You’ve Not Seen!

Despite what their name suggests, Drum Café West Coast is not a physical venue—it’s an absolutely unforgettable rhythmic experience! Drum Café provides an exhilarating and immersive franchise team-building experience that uses drumming as a medium to promote teamwork and communication, for any group size! Talk about bam!! Check this out: Can you envision it? Opening […]
Is What You’re Doing Now Working? In a Few Months, It May Not!

Many fear a recession is coming. The headlines are full of impending downturns, layoffs, and potential warning signs. Although there are different opinions on what will happen, we know that things are changing. What you are doing now may be working, but in a few months, it may not. In her recent blog post, Business […]
10 Tips to Support Franchisees at the Personal Level

For a franchisee, business and personal life often blend together. While there are downsides to this, the upside is the commitment they bring to looking after their staff and their customers. According to the world’s leading franchise business psychologist Greg Nathan at the Franchise Relationships Institute (FRI), data recently collected highlights a need for franchisor […]
Stress Right: Learn How to Better Dodge, Withstand and Use Stress to Your Advantage

Hours can be long and work can be strenuous! Breaks are postponed because of “I need it yesterday” demands. Harmony between work and life seems like a dream that you are always one step behind. These situations can be stressful and too much stress can damage your health and well-being.Did you know that stress is […]
Is There Really a Place for Mindfulness Practices in my Franchise Network? 4 Ways to Improve Performance!

Well-being is an important topic. Particularly over the past couple of years, the importance of mental health and well-being has come to the forefront as franchisors and franchisees are looking for creative ways to retain talent and ensure a healthy workforce. As supporting our teams becomes a strategic priority, the question is asked: Is there […]
Scott Greenberg: Recruiting, Engaging & Retaining Employees with Intrinsic Motivation
I sat down recently with extraordinary franchise keynote speaker, Scott Greenberg, to talk about all things franchise: the top performing franchisee mindset, franchise culture, millennials, game-changing customer service, franchisor/franchisee relationships and more. As a past elite performing multi-unit franchisee himself, Scott has a unique perspective— and franchisees connect to it immediately. Here, Scott talks about the […]
Sales Follow Connection: Colette Carlson

Keynote speaker Colette Carlson, is a human connection expert—and with her energy, sense of humor and entertainingly wrapped wisdom and takeaways, your audience will walk away thrilled and equipped to make changes in their businesses and lives. Colette discusses: the language of leadership – connected enthusiastic teams – sales through true connection – genuine communication […]
5 Critical Traits: Greg Nathan’s Franchisee Wheel of Excellence

In case you missed it last week (and if so, check it out), this month we are featuring Greg Nathan, Founder of the Franchise Relationships Institute, because of his extraordinary contribution to the franchise industry! His research, books, Franchise Relationships Bootcamps and speaking engagements have been difference makers for MANY franchise systems. Here’s a conversation […]
Greg Nathan: A Beautiful Journey

Greg’s Healthy Franchise Relationships 2-Minute Tip I was immediately drawn to Greg’s recent tip, as the opening quote resonated with me greatly, and perhaps it will with you… A Beautiful Journey “’I am saying a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do with […]
Scott Greenberg: Collective Mindset = Franchise Culture

SO many of our franchise friends know and love Scott Greenberg, and for good, no GREAT reason (we do too)! Scott has real-life, real-time experience running 2 award-winning franchise units of his own. With this history, Scott is lock step with franchisee audiences from the moment he takes stage. Scott’s passion is elevating franchisee performance—and […]