What ongoing training does Gokhale Method provide to franchisees?
Gokhale_Method Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
Our ongoing obligations to you during the operation of your Franchised Business include:
Providing continuing training, including Teacher Webinar, an Annual Meeting and/or an alternative continuing education option, and other continuing training as we may determine from time to time (Section 7.2);
Training is held during various intervals during the year depending on our need to train new franchisees. The instructional material may consist of our Teachers Manual or Policy Statements, scripts, images, checklists, demonstrations, practice and quizzes. Currently Esther Gokhale conducts the training; she has been teaching postural methods for health improvement since at least 1992. The cost of Initial Training is included in the $4,000 franchise fee. You must pay food and lodging expenses in connection with attendance at Immersion Week. The Gokhale® Active (Premium) fee of $140 must be paid yearly from the time of acceptance to the program. Gokhale Active helps prepare accepted candidates for the Immersion Week. Upon completion of Teacher Training Immersion Week, you must pay $240 a year for teacher webinars. Once a year you must pay $450 for the annual teachers' meeting, for which you will also pay food and lodging. This is a required fee and attendance is mandatory. We do not at the present time have any further continuing education requirements, but we reserve the right to add them if we add new approved formats or new continuing education. All franchisees must attend training and complete it to the franchisor's satisfaction.
Your rights to teach the Gokhale Method depend upon your completion to our satisfaction of not only your Initial Training but also such other and further training classes or refresher courses as we may authorize or direct from time to time. We may suspend your right to teach one or more courses or formats if you have not completed to our satisfaction all required training or refresher requirements, programs or courses.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 18–23)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to the 2024 Gokhale Method Franchise Disclosure Document, Gokhale Method provides continuing training to franchisees during the operation of their franchised business. This includes a Teacher Webinar, an Annual Meeting, and/or an alternative continuing education option. The franchisor may also determine other continuing training from time to time.
Franchisees are required to attend the Annual Meeting once a year, which costs $450, in addition to covering their own food and lodging expenses. Franchisees must also pay $240 annually for teacher webinars. Attendance at the annual teachers' meeting is mandatory. While there are no further continuing education requirements at the present time, Gokhale Method reserves the right to add them if they add new approved formats or new continuing education. All franchisees must attend training and complete it to the franchisor's satisfaction.
To maintain the right to teach the Gokhale Method, franchisees must complete initial training to the franchisor's satisfaction, as well as any further training classes or refresher courses that Gokhale Method may authorize or direct. The franchisor may suspend a franchisee's right to teach one or more courses or formats if they have not completed all required training or refresher requirements, programs, or courses to the franchisor's satisfaction.