Can a Gokhale Method franchisee open the Franchised Business before completing all required training?
Gokhale_Method Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
- 7.1. Initial Training. You will complete the Initial Training, which consists of Teacher Training Immersion Week and substantial follow-up training and practice requirements which will prepare you to teach the Gokhale System to groups and individuals. Approval to teach requires that you attend and successfully complete to our satisfaction the Initial Training and shall have passed all evaluations, and be formally approved by us to teach. If you do not complete all training and have not qualified to teach within six months of attending the Teacher Training Immersion Week, we may terminate this Agreement upon 30 days' notice and your failure to cure
- 7.2. Continuing Training. You must attend such additional courses, seminars and other training programs as we may reasonably require from time to time, and which will be detailed in the then current Teachers' Manual, in order to maintain your approval to teach the Approved Formats for which you have been approved. Such continuing training may include, but is not limited to, attendance at the Annual Meeting, participation in such Teacher Webinars as may be scheduled by us, peer review of teacher trainees, and involvement in Gokhale® Active. Failure to attend and participate in such continuing training programs may result in suspension of your right to teach the Gokhale System until you have completed our required continuing training and you have been re-approved. If your right to teach has been suspended, and you nonetheless offer to teach, we may terminate this Agreement immediately upon notice to you. As part of your continuing approval we may request that you submit at reasonable intervals, and you agree to submit to us within such reasonable time as we specify, audiotapes or videotapes of you teaching, and which will be detailed in the then current Teachers' Manual. We may submit such recordings to peer review by other Gokhale Method teachers, and you hereby grant us your consent for such submission.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD page 34)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to the 2024 Gokhale Method Franchise Disclosure Document, a franchisee must complete all required initial training to the satisfaction of Gokhale Method before being approved to teach. Specifically, the franchisee must attend and successfully complete the Initial Training, pass all evaluations, and be formally approved by Gokhale Method to teach.
If a prospective Gokhale Method franchisee does not complete all training and is not qualified to teach within six months of attending the Teacher Training Immersion Week, Gokhale Method has the right to terminate the Franchise Agreement after providing 30 days' notice, assuming the franchisee fails to rectify the situation. This requirement ensures that all instructors are properly trained and qualified before they begin teaching the Gokhale Method.
Furthermore, Gokhale Method franchisees must also attend continuing training programs to maintain their approval to teach the Approved Formats. Failure to attend and participate in these programs may result in the suspension of their right to teach the Gokhale System until the training is completed and re-approval is granted. If a franchisee teaches while suspended, Gokhale Method can terminate the agreement immediately.