Is it time for a staff audit?
We all do it as business owners…. We hold onto our staff out of convenience rather than what is great for our business. A member of your staff is not performing or on the other hand, they have outgrown their role and you have nothing else to offer them to progress. ...
Find your Beat.
When I speak at large franchise conferences and there are more than one or two hundred people in the room, it is hard to find activities that will allow the audience to participate, rather than just listen to a presentation, but I have one activity that I love that I...
Franchisors: Allow franchisees to buy
Now before we begin, I am going to admit that I spend the majority of my time as a coach, supporting franchisees, working with franchisors to help them once they have a franchisee on board, but every now and then, for special clients, I cross over into the franchise...
Use simple strategies to grow your franchise business.
This topic is actually applicable to both franchisors and franchisees because they are all business owners and the thing that most business owners do is to over complicate their business. It is true, especially when it comes to growing their business. Let me give you...
When the cycle of business is reversed and the detrimental consequences of this to a franchise group.
More than 15 years ago - before I was even a coach - I was taught this cycle of business by MY business coach (Action Coach) and it has always stayed with me as a guiding principle for how to do business and how to do it well. Now more than ever this, combined with a...
When good guys finish FIRST and what I believe you can learn from this.
Get ready… this is a long one!! Have you ever heard that saying ‘Good Guys always finish last’? Well that just wasn’t the case about 10 days ago when Jeremy and Tim from City Cave took out the WIN on the Global competition of the Next Generation in Franchising at the...
Business is a marathon, not a sprint.
To often I see franchisees start their brand new franchise business with huge excitement and anticipation to only find them about 3 or 4 months later totally deflated. Why is this? Well, generally it is because they have unrealistic expectations of what it takes to...
Is it time to change up your conference?
This last week I’ve been working with one of my clients on their conference. I have also just had another conference speaking spot booked and was talking to the Franchisor about this very topic. How long is it since you ‘changed up’ your conference for your...
Consistency and Momentum – Why your Franchise can FAIL without them.
Imagine this…. You have a hose that is say 50 metres long. You turn on the water at the tap, but the water does not come out of the hose – at the other end – immediately, right? It takes a little time for the water to make its way through the hose until it exits at...
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