Create Breakout Sessions That Earn Rave Reviews!
Often franchisors leverage internal talent or vendor partner subject matter experts to deliver content in their breakout track curriculum. Wouldn’t you love to have your franchisees engaged, participating, excited and tactically ready to implement new tools and techniques into their businesses as soon as they return home? One of the biggest concerns (and sometimes complaints) […]
Poker Anyone?
I just ran across an article from MeetingsNet and thought it was smart, concise and useful. So, of course, I thought I’d pass it along. 🙂 Attorney Barbara Dunn O’Neal says regarding contract negotiations, “It’s not poker people, put your cards on the table.” Check out the full article, Contracts 101: Know Before You Negotiate, […]
Solidify Commitment to Your System Throughout Your Convention by Using Hollywood Storytelling Techniques
Imagine walking the halls after your opening “State of the Franchise System” speech and hearing… “I realized there is no better way to run our franchise than to follow the system”…over and over from your franchisees. 🙂 Hall-of-Fame keynote speaker, executive speech coach, presentation trainer AND long-time SPEAK! friend, Patricia Fripp has tried and true […]
Greg Nathan: How to Keep Franchisees Growth-Minded – Greg’s Healthy Franchise Relationships 2-Minute Tip
In case you missed it, here’s a SUPER valuable article from Greg Nathan. (If you don’t have time to read it at the moment, it’s definitely worthy of setting it aside for your reading list.) Here it is… “Last week, we held a franchise operations leadership breakfast on the topic “How to Encourage Franchisees to […]
SPEAK!’s Top 23 Tips for Creating a Memorable, Meaningful & Magical Awards Celebration
How was your last Awards Celebration? Is there room for improvement? Or was it so fantastic that you’re looking for ideas to top it?!?! Through the years, we’ve placed emcees at franchise awards dinners and celebrations with lots of success. However, regardless of whether or not you allocate budget to outside talent (at times we’ve […]
Ricky Kalmon: Refreshingly Different—Decidedly WOW!
Ricky is fascinating, hilarious (and always tasteful 🙂 ) and “on the edge of your seat” unpredictable as a Stage Hypnotist…but he also delivers an invaluable, motivational and practical message on the power of the subconscious mind in our personal and professional results DAILY. Ricky WOWed one of our wonderful franchise clients earlier this month […]
Mike Abrashoff: Leading With Humility Changes Culture
Former Commander of the USS Benfold, Mike Abrashoff recently reflected on the things he learned from Secretary of Defense William Perry. This is an excerpt: “An arrogant leader makes it tougher for the troops to do their job. Nobody wants to do business with you or your team if you come across in an arrogant […]
Greg Nathan: 176 Tips for Improving Franchise Communications and Group Meetings
I’m sure some of you saw Greg Nathan’s, 176 Tips for Improving Franchise Communications and Group Meetings, but it’s SO valuable, I wanted to send it out to our franchisor friends just to make sure! It’s really more of an ongoing reference tool, than simply tips—and something that should definitely be passed along! Here’s what […]
WHERE to Next? Meeting Destination Tips!
We were talking to our friend Marcus Johnson, from the Reno/Tahoe Convention Visitor’s Bureau about franchise convention destinations the other day and he mentioned a great article from the Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI) that we thought we’d pass along. Leverage your Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) or Destination Management Organization (DMO) to Make Your […]
Let’s Talk About Values
Have you ever… interacted with a franchise organization regularly (other than your own), and tried to guess what their core values are? Unintentionally, we definitely have! At IFA a couple months back, Debbie and I had the pleasure of meeting or reconnecting with so many wonderful people. In some cases, we met multiple team members […]
