This unique online training experience will provide you with proven tactics, innovative ideas, and actionable strategies to attract, train, engage, manage, motivate, and retain great sandwich artists who will deliver “on fire performance and service” for you and in your restaurants.
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Module 1: Introduction
Creating an ON FIRE Culture
You know what you expect from your people, but do you know what they expect from you? Most employers don’t, so they struggle with low productivity and high turnover. Discover the 7 pillars of a great workplace culture and start transforming your business into a top place to work in your community – and your industry.
Additional Resources
Great Books on the Topic
- Reviving Work Ethic: A Leader’s Guide to Ending Entitlement & Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce by Eric Chester
- On Fire at Work: How Great Companies Ignite Passion in Their People without Burning Them Out by Eric Chester
Articles to Review and Share
- Employee Engagement is Not the Goal; It’s the Starting Point by Eric Chester
- Power Up Your Culture by Empowering Your Front Line Service Providers by Eric Chester
- When It Comes to a Compelling Workplace Culture, These Nerds Rule! by Eric Chester
- Employee Sales Contests that Demotivate Performance and Destroy the Culture by Eric Chester
- How One Franchise Is Building a Systemwide Culture of Engagement by Eric Chester
- I Got Zapped! 3 Surprising Facts About the Culture of Zappos by Eric Chester
- Potholes or Smooth Streets? Your Culture Hinges on Your Perspective by Eric Chester
- An Employee Engagement Survey That Doesn’t Ask These 3 Questions is Worthless by Eric Chester
- When Millennial Employees Are In Control of their Careers, Everybody Wins by Eric Chester
- Why the World’s Most Successful Retailer Invites Employees to Turn their Backs on Customers by Eric Chester
- Let Amazing Employee Service be your Customer Service ACE in the Hole by Eric Chester
- The Best Way to Retain Employees is to Ask, “What Would Make You Leave?” by Eric Chester
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Module 2: Attracting and Hiring
Get Great People Working for You
Learn how to recruit, attract, and hire the kind of people you need to grow your business. Then, train them to perform at their best from day one onward.
Additional Resources
Great Books on this Topic
- Who by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
- Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude by Mark Murphy
- Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams by Lou Adler
Articles to Review & Share
- When Recruiting Talent, Remember Your ABC’s and Always Be Canvassing by Eric Chester
- Maximizing Millennials According to, well, uh…Millennials by Eric Chester
- How to Attract and Manage “Firsters” so they Last – Part One by Eric Chester and Mark Sanborn
- How to Attract and Manage “Firsters” so they Last – Part Two by Eric Chester and Mark Sanborn
- When Millennial Employees Are In Control of their Careers, Everyone Wins by Eric Chester
- Why Millennial Managers are the Most Perplexed Demographic in America by Eric Chester
- As Hiring Gets Harder, Think Soft by Eric Chester (Downloadable PDF)
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Module 3: Compensation
Win the Wage Game without Going Broke
Learn three principles you can implement today to achieve long-term employee loyalty –– even if you’re not paying the highest wages in your industry.
Additional Resources
Great Books on this Topic
- Reward Systems: Does Yours Measure Up? (Memo to the CEO) by Steve Kerr and Glenn Rifkin
- The Compensation Solution: How to Develop an Employee-Driven Rewards System by John E. Tropman
- A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-Term Success of Your Business by Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham
Articles to Review & Share
- To Retain Top Young Talent, Stop Dangling Nebulous Carrots! by Eric Chester
- Why Raising Salaries Isn’t the Sure Cure for Your Employee Retention Problem by Eric Chester
- Why Equal Pay for All Your Employees Isn’t Fair to Any of Them by Eric Chester
- Frightened by Employees Who Demand a Treat without Performing A Trick? by Eric Chester
- TRAIN WRECK! Why Millennials Hate Being Paid by the Hour by Eric Chester
- Young Pros Need to Up their Quid to Get the Quo by Eric Chester
- While Some Rules are Changing, ‘Coffee is for Closers’ is One that Won’t by Eric Chester (Downloadable PDF)
- Never Pay Your People What They’re Worth by Eric Chester (Downloadable PDF)
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Module 4: Alignment
Unite Your People Around Your Mission and Values
Do your people know and show your organization’s core values? Learn how to galvanize employees with a purpose to keep them working with you and for you – not against you.
Additional Resources
Great Books on this Topic
- Values, Inc.: How Incorporating Values into Business and Life Can Change the World by Dina Dwyer
- The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace by S. Chris Edmonds
- First Things First by Stephen R. Covey
Articles to Review and Share
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Module 5: Atmosphere
Creating an Environment for Success
Your people ask themselves 7 crucial questions each day. Their answers determine whether they’ll show up to give their best effort, or to play games on their smartphone. Learn these 7 questions, and how to make sure their answer to each is a “YES!”
Additional Resources
Great Books on this Topic
- The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today by Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyard
- The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace by Ron Friedman, PhD
- Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work by Leslie Yerkes
Articles to Review and Share
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Module 6: Growth
Personal Growth Grows Your Business
Discover the hidden reason most good employees leave in search of something better. Then, learn 5 steps to develop employees that are loyal, happy, and increasingly productive for your business.
Additional Resources
Great Books on this Topic
- Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers by Erika Andersen
- Not Everyone Gets A Trophy: How to Manage the Millennials by Bruce Tulgan
- Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time by George B. Bradt and Mary Vonnegut
Articles to Review and Share
- 5 Steps to Keep Your Employees in the Growth Zone by Eric Chester
- The Difference Between Mothering, Managing, and Mentoring Millennials by Eric Chester
- LEADERS, If You Were Stripped of Your Title, Would People Still Follow You? by Eric Chester
- Why Hiring Great Talent Does Not Guarantee Great Results by Eric Chester
- Talent-Rich but Soft Skills Deficient: Transforming a Zebra into a Workhorse by Eric Chester
- Why Your Teenager Must Have a Job this Summer by Eric Chester
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Module 7: Autonomy
Empower Your People to Make Powerful Decisions
Eliminate the productivity-killing micromanagement virus and discover what makes employees think, act, and take total ownership of their jobs. In this lesson, you’ll learn an easy-to-implement approach for building a culture of autonomy.
Additional Resources
Great Books on this Topic
- Uncontainable: How Passion, Commitment, and Conscious Capitalism Built a Business Where Everyone Thrives by Kip Tindell (Author) and Casey Shilling, Paul Keegan (Contributors)
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Difference by Mark Sanborn
Articles to Review and Share
- Eradicate Micromanagement: 4 Steps to Creating a Culture of Autonomy by Eric Chester
- Power Up Your Culture by Empowering Your Front Line Service Providers by Eric Chester
- How One Engaged Employee Can Create a Multitude of Flag-Waving Customers by Eric Chester
- 10 Ways to Encourage Employees to Take Ownership in Their Work by Eric Chester
- When Millennial Employees Are In Control of their Careers, Everybody Wins by Eric Chester
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Module 8: Communication
Use Transparency and Active Listening to Truly Connect
There are 3 specific types of information about your company that will either compel or repel your employees. In this lesson, learn how these influence employee trust and loyalty so you can keep their heads in the game.
Additional Resources
Great Books on this Topic
- Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently by John C. Maxwell
- Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Goulston, MD
- Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott
Articles to Review and Share
- The Best Question You Can Ask Employees to Keep Them Engaged by Eric Chester
- The Transparency Advantage: Informed Employees are Engaged Employees by Eric Chester
- The Slippery Slope Between Brand Hyperbole and Employee Dishonesty by Eric Chester
- Stop Programming Robots by Eric Chester (Downloadable PDF)
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Module 9: Acknowledgement
Incentivize Consistent ON FIRE Performance
Behavior that’s acknowledged gets repeated. In this lesson, you’ll learn techniques for powerful recognition that will help you energize and inspire a passionate workplace.
Additional Resources
Great Books on this Topic
- 1501 Ways to Reward Employees by Bob Nelson, PhD
- The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton
- Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em: Getting Good People to Stay by Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans
Articles to Review and Share
- How to Turbo-Charge Employee Recognition to Ensure Continued Performance by Eric Chester
- 10 Ways to Encourage Employees to take Ownership in Their Work by Eric Chester
- 3 Ways to Disengage Your Employees This Holiday Season by Eric Chester
- Why the World’s Most Successful Retailer Invites Employees to Turn Their Backs on Customers by Eric Chester
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Module 10: Class Act
Getting Employees to Look and Act Professionally
Unprofessional behavior can poison your workplace and destroy your culture. Discover inspiring ideas to “class up” your employees’ attitudes and decisions towards their appearance, language, and manners.
Additional Resources
Great Books on this Topic
- The Essentials of Business Etiquette: How to Greet, Eat, and Tweet Your Way to Success by Barbara Pachter
- Modern Manners: Tools to Take You to the Top by Dorothea Johnson
- How to Say Anything to Anyone: A Guide to Building Business Relationships That Really Work by Shari Harley
Articles to Review and Share
- When Millennials Cry “Don’t Judge Me,” They’re Secretly Hoping You Will by Eric Chester
- When Millennials Cry “Don’t Judge Me” – Part II by Eric Chester
- When Managing Millennials, Don’t Lower Your Expectations; Change Them by Eric Chester
- Have We Lost Sight of What it Means to “Be a Professional?” by Eric Chester
- Reverse-Discipline Strategy Allows Managers to Play the Good Cop by Eric Chester
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Module 11: Resolving Conflict
Resolve Behavior Problems without Drama
When an issue doesn’t call for immediate termination, rely on this simple 5-step formula to keep your cool and take control. This lesson will help you address – and correct – many nagging problems and behaviors your employees bring into your workplace without drama.
Additional Resources
Great Books on this Topic
- Conflict Resolution at Work For Dummies by Vivian Scott
- Conflict Management for Managers: Resolving Workplace, Client, and Policy Disputes by Susan S. Raines
- Dealing with People You Can’t Stand, Revised and Expanded Third Edition: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst by Rick Kirschner & Rick Brinkman
Articles to Review and Share
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Module 12: Up and Over Leadership
Make Your People Valued
There are 4 types of performance in the workplace, and only one of them leads to success. Learn why your employees act or react the way they do, and how to lead them to become the person they’d most like to be. It’s a win/win scenario.
Additional Resources
Great Books on this Topic
- Reviving Work Ethic: A Leader’s Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce by Eric Chester
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
Articles to Review and Share
- LEADERS: If You Were Stripped of Your Title, Would People Still Follow You? by Mark Sanborn
- Eradicate Micromanagement: 4 Steps to Creating a Culture of Autonomy by Eric Chester
- The Worst Mistake a Manager Can Make is to Treat All Employees the Same by Eric Chester
- 10 Ways to Encourage Employees to take Ownership in Their Work by Eric Chester
- Why Millennial Managers are the Most Perplexed Demographic in America by Eric Chester
- Without Execution, the Best Laid Plans of a Time-Crunched Leader Go Astray by Eric Chester
- You Don’t Need a Survey to Determine if Your Employees are Engaged by Eric Chester
- To End Employee Entitlement, Employers Must Grow a Pair! by Eric Chester
- Six Steps to Building Extraordinary Relationships by Mark Sanborn
- Why the Candidate You Hired isn’t the Employee Who Showed Up by Eric Chester
- Potholes or Smooth Streets? Your Culture Hinges on Your Perspective by Eric Chester