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 […]
Shhh, don’t tell…but the holidays have me stressed.
Those of you that know me well, know that I view the holidays differently than the often overwhelming, version of the holidays that envelopes us. Peace and presence is more the goal than hustle and bustle. Does that sound nice? (Well…for some reason, this year I’m feeling the stress a bit more than usual, despite […]
Dan Thurmon: Delivering WOW & Ramping up Performance!
Beyond the energy and WOW of Dan’s presentation, he delivers skills and ideas which will move your franchisees to improve their performance—performance under stress, during change and when it matters most. Dan says the key to being able to “perform,” or deliver excellence when it matters the most, is to prepare properly and understand the […]
Save on Recruiting Costs with Video Interviews!
I ran across the following article by Peter Capodice from Capodice & Associates on the use of video interviewing to reduce recruiting costs (by nearly 50% they estimate!). I thought it was excellent and wanted to pass it along! Video Interviews as a Phone Screening Alternative Top talent are more mobile than ever thanks to […]
Troy Hazard Talks About New Year Planning—How is Your 2018 Planning Going?
Our most in-demand franchise speaker, Troy Hazard, recently appeared on The Big Biz Show, and talked about planning for the new year. Whether you’ve worked with Troy, saw him speak at the 2017 Faegre Summit or have not yet had the pleasure of meeting him, I thought the topic and tips were timely and helpful. […]
Greg Nathan: The Franchisee/Franchisor Relationship—When Do We Get To The “WE” Stage?
This month we’ve been featuring Greg Nathan, founder of the Franchise Relationships Institute, and talking about all things franchisor/franchisee! In this week’s video interview, Greg and I talk about the 6 stages of the franchisor/franchisee relationship…and WHEN does it get to WE? Greg’s book, The Franchise E-Factor walks through these easily identifiable stages. Let me […]
Free Webinar Replay: HOW TO Deliver a WOW Opening Speech at Your Franchise Convention
Our webinar last week, partnering with Patricia Fripp, executive speaker coach, was a wild success. I spoke to a least of few of you who were interested, but could not make the live webinar fit your schedule. For you and any others that would like to benefit from the tips, tools and techniques Patricia discussed, […]
