How We Make A Difference

We are excited! The program for this year's Field Manager Summit is finalised and it has some great inclusions, such as Masterclasses on the Neuro-Science of Coaching and Social Media for Field Managers. We hope to attract everyone back who came last year plus a host of fresh faces. Click here to see the full program. Read entire post

Over 60 academics from 16 countries came together this week at the University of NSW to share findings on a wide range of franchise research topics spanning marketing, legal, HR and economic issues. The Franchise Relationships Institute was pleased to be a sponsor of this 24th International Society of Franchising Conference (ISoF) which attendees agreed was the best ever held. In addition to rigorous discussion and the presentation of some ground breaking studies, we all had a ball. Read entire post

Did you attend one of our FRI 21st Birthday Breakfasts which have now been held in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide? You might catch a photo of yourself in one of the following photo galleries from these fabulous events: Read entire post

Strong leadership is essential when introducing change into a franchise system.  Katherine Saunders and Greg Nathan spent a productive day cracking this topic open with the South Australian franchising community. Read entire post

One of our core values is to communicate simply and directly with clients. So it didn't take much encouragement to get our Managing Director, Greg Nathan, to agree to recently talk on the topic of how to avoid jargon to a group of 26 in-training organisational psychologists at the University of Queensland. Read entire post

Last week in Denver, 80 franchisors came together with 649 collective years of franchise experience. It seems that where ever you are in the world franchise relationships is a hot issue and these franchise executives were thirsty for practical strategies on building profitable partnerships with their franchisees. Read entire post

Listen to a fascinating and wide ranging discussion on Franchise Radio between Greg Nathan and Paul Segreto where Greg shares his research and views on how a healthy franchise culture drives performance. Click here to hear the interview. Read entire post

Sitting in a hotel rooom in beautiful Prague, Greg Nathan recently broadcast a webinar for our friends in the USA. This 45 minute session was titled "Avoiding 10 Common Mistakes in Franchise Relations". Want to hear this? Read on... Read entire post

The word participation took on a new meaning at the recent Franchise Council of Australia NSW conference. The mostly franchisor audience of over 100 people were invited to take part as “franchisees” in a simulation involving a change of ownership of their franchisor. Read entire post

Brazilian franchisors will now be able to read the popular Franchise E-Factor book in their native Portuguese. This week in Sao Paulo 300 franchisors attended the Brazilian book launch as part of a two day International Franchising Forum organised by FRI's new Brazilian agents, Bittencourt. Read entire post