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Franchise Times: Forget Overtime—Undertime is Real Villain Says Anytime Fitness
Anytime Fitness co-founders spoke at the IFA convention about driving employee engagement.
At this year’s International Franchise Association’s annual convention in Las Vegas, kilt-clad Anytime Fitness co-founders Dave Mortensen and Chuck Runyon gave a lively keynote address focusing on employee performance and engagement. Overtime, they said, wasn’t the issue—it was employees who are present, but only physically.
According to salary.com, 89 percent of employees reported wasting time at work, 16 percent waste around two hours a day, and 31 percent reported wasting around an hour a day. When Mortenson first learned about these statistics, he immediately began brainstorming ways to tackle that kind of lack in employee engagement at Anytime Fitness. Now, they focus on “people, purpose, profits and play,” which they explained to the keynote audience members.
“Your team, your staff, your customers do not care about how much money you make,” said Mortensen during the address. “But what they do care about is the lives we can impact.”
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FollowNick Powills, CFE, founded No Limit Agency in 2008 and serves as Chief Brand Strategist for the Chicago-based firm. No Limit is a full-service communications agency that establishes and elevates brands by bridging Public Relations, Social Media, Marketing, Advertising, Digital, and a lot of creativity, to best strategize well-rounded and successful campaigns for 50+ global franchise brands. By presenting visionary ideas and building real relationships, No Limit is able to create effective media branding strategies to help companies grow. Nick currently leads a staff of writers, media strategists, designers, social media experts and digital producers in an office think-tank where brands are humanized for strong, compelling media stories. Prior to starting No Limit at the age of 27, Nick spent four years working at a franchise PR agency where he mastered the art of building rapport with media outlets and creating newsworthy pitches for earned media placements. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Drake University in Iowa.
