How many of us have been on a dodgy training course? As a very experienced training professional I am happy to confess to being really rather fussy when I attend other people training. I am probably your typical nightmare attendee, sitting at the back, or these days in the corner of a Zoom meeting carping away about how I could have done it better. And in the current climate, why would a savvy business want to waste money on training that fails to hit the mark or improve performance?
Read MoreThe right franchisees will generate higher sales, and if you are charging a percentage of those sales this directly improves your return. Weaker franchisees just don’t generate the same sales performance, but also don’t run their franchised business as well as they could – leading to higher staff turnover, lower customer satisfaction and more of their time spent firefighting and not enough spent on growing their and your business.
Read MorePre COVID-19 Swimlane charts at Be Astute were created using good old fashioned wall paper.
We’d take a roll of wallpaper; nothing too cheap - the John Lewis sale bin is a mine of useful material; a pack of post-it stickers, a box of sharpie pens (other pen types are available) and a packet of chocolate hobnobs, then find the room with the biggest table in the building (though one occasion a floor worked better) and start to draw.
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