This article is written and owned by Lance Winslow
One of the worst things for a franchise system is to have negative franchisees which bring down the morale. When a franchise system is doing well the energy and synergy of all the franchisees along with the franchisor and his marketing will propel the company to greater heights. But just as when you are with a group of friends, and one of them has a bad attitude, their negativity can spread throughout the group like a virus.
Before retirement, I ran a franchising company, and I do remember a few franchisees with negative attitudes. It was amazing how much damage they did, and I later found out that they were talking negatively to customers, new potential franchise buyers, and all the other franchisees. Often if you read the advice and articles from small business consultants, they will tell you; if you have a negative person in the office – fire them, or to use an analogy throw them off the ship.
This may sound like cruel and unusual punishment, but if they are doing damage to your team, you’ll be sorry later if you don’t. Your best bet is to keep people with negative attitudes from joining your company. In other words, a franchising company should not sell franchises to people who come in and complain a lot about their former boss, or how they hated corporate America and their 9-to-5 job. Because in the end once they join the company they will find something to gripe about, and cause the same problems in your company.
This is why franchisors is often ask questions of new franchise buyers such as; “why did you leave your last job?” Or “are you able to get along with other people, and do you work well on a team?” If you run a franchise company, or if you are in charge of choosing new franchisees, I’d recommend that you ask questions just like these. Please consider all this.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes in franchising.
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