The Operations Team recently kicked off their monthly regional webinar series. In the northeast, we recently hosted and recorded a presentation on Preventing Employee Theft, Fraud and Embezzlement.
The Grounds Guys Operations team recently began a monthly regional webinar series, intended to share information on important topics identified from owner/FC calls, meetings and current events. Expert speakers will join and help present the monthly topic, if needed. Participants are encouraged to participate during live events, so submit questions via the chat function when your FC schedules a meeting in your region.
The goal is to keep webinars focused and to last roughly 30 minutes. Each webinar is organized into three segments to probive informative information to help you run a great business and learn from your peers:
- 10 minutes = a speaker making a formal presentation
- 10 minutes = real-life, shared experience by a franchise owner or relevant speaker
- 10 minutes = Q&A / discussion with attendees
Two franchisees recently experienced employee theft and fraud, making this an important topic to share. Jake Dixon owns The Grounds Guys of Ottawa West and he volunteered to share his experience and facilitate this session. On behalf of the Ops team and The Grounds Guys system, thank you for speaking about this topic and offering your advice.
The Employee Theft, Fraud & Embezzlement webinar included the topics below. You can view the recorded webinar at: https://youtu.be/i7bu5sDQOrg
1. Presentation (10 Minutes)
- Introduction to Protecting your Company from Employee Theft, Fraud and Embezzlement
- Employees: are they an asset or a liability?
- Trust: do you nurture or kill it?
- THE SPEED OF TRUST by Stephen Covey: an excellent read
- Why do employees steal?
- Why is my company at risk?
- Small business theft statistics
- Types of employee theft, fraud & embezzlement
- Common influences that enable employee theft
- Where to start?
- Select employees carefully
- Supervise employees regularly
- Improve your accounting system
- Conduct scheduled and surprise audits
- Look for these warning signs
- Webinar summary
2. Real Life Experience (10 Minutes)
- Shared by Jake Dixon, Owner of The Grounds Guys of Ottawa West
3. Q&A (10 Minutes)
- Question & Answer Session where attendees asked Jake questions, shared stories and talked amongst each other about this topic in detail.
We are fortunate to work with an awesome group of people, so we are excited about offering this for you. Your FC will send invitations for your region’s webinars, so look for them in your email inbox. We encourage you to attend these webinars!