The Executive Suite Blog

Leadership can mean many things to many people. A lot of it may depend on your own perspective of what a good leader is. That perspective can be developed from both positive and negative experiences.  As a leadership coach I know that there are a number of things that leaders can do to create more productive work environments, including establishing policies and procedures, setting an example, and engaging in regular communication and discussion with employees to name a few.

Consider these Google listings: “Franchise Business Opportunities, Top Franchise Opportunities for Sale, Franchise Opportunities, Franchises For Sale…”  Do you want your Franchise with onions, lettuce, and tomato, what?  Hold the onions!  OK.  Will do.  My goodness, a simple search for “franchise business opportunities” gets 23,700,000 hits. 

Every time I work with leadership coaching clients on their leadership and management training, I emphasize certain leadership tactics that focus upon workforce alignment.  Workforce alignment requires that you have the right types of people, in the right places at the right times, doing the right things right.  We will discuss how to get your employees in the right places at the right times by managing them effectively, thereby enhancing employee motivation.

When I’m asked what are the best franchise business opportunities available I have a few questions of my own to ask.  I’ve found that this question usually is asked to save the person from doing any work themselves – they want someone else to do the heavy lifting.  Sure, it would be easy to prepare a list of the best franchise opportunities, what the franchise costs and franchise fees are, but it would not help anyone, anywhere, make any effective decision.

At The Executive Suite we provide our clients several services essential to their success, including leadership coaching and training, human resources consulting, and job placement services.  As part of our job placement services we provide temporary, temp to perm, and permanent recruitment and are quite accustomed to working with millennials.  Depending on your business needs at a particular time you may need some or all of these services, but let’s discuss temporary placements for now.

There are lots of great reasons to write about franchise ownership.  For this article I’ll focus on five of the best reasons to own a franchise.  See, a lot of people use real complicated franchise investigation procedures to ferret out the best and worst franchises.  They even develop lists for the pros and cons of buying a franchise.

Did Albert Einstein really write about leadership coaching directly?  No, but here’s where his inspiration can help all of us.  One of the greatest creative thinkers in the world wrote a bit on many things, some of which can be applied to the practice of leadership coaching. 

As a franchise consultant (yes some also call me their franchise coach) I was talking with a franchise candidate the other day about her interest in owning a franchise.  She was curious how she might “fit in” as a franchise owner.  That led to a series of questions about her personality style, what she likes to do in a business, how she likes working with other people, and whether there is a distinct franchise personality style that all franchise owners exhibit. She seemed more interested in that style than franchise fees, franchise cost, and uncovering a good franchise opportunity.

Sure, as a leadership development professional I have my opinions about leader coach training and leadership training.  Don’t get me wrong – I happen to think that there are quite a few valid leadership training programs on the market.  Guess it depends on what you are searching for. 

In our job placement company we interview job applicants every day.  Some of the applicants are applying for specific employment while others are being interviewed so that we can place them into our talent inventory for future employment.