ActionCOACH Franchise Partners are selected on the basis of experience, character, integrity, financial stability and general suitability. In order to more accurately assess your suitability in becoming an ActionCOACH Franchise Partner you will need to complete this Applicant Background Information Statement and return it to your Master Franchisee/Master Licensee. Your confidential Information Statement will then be retained by ActionCOACH for assessment towards your suitability toward purchasing and operating an ActionCOACH Franchise/License.

This confidential information will only be used to help us assess your suitability as a Franchisee/Licensee. This information will not be used or disclosed for any other purpose without your prior approval and may at your request be destroyed or returned to you if your application is unsuccessful. This application does not oblige either party in any way.

This section requires you to disclose your personal contact details. If the Application is on behalf of a company then the Application must be completed by the Managing Director. ActionCOACH has two main reasons for requesting this information:

• to give us full and correct contact information for our records; and
• to assess parts of your personal life, so we can gain a greater understanding of your needs and how these will impact on your ability to operate the business successfully.

This section requires you to disclose your educational details in secondary/high schools attended as well as tertiary education facilities. Even though education is an important factor in assessing your appropriateness for an ActionCOACH franchise/license, education is not used in isolation. Assessment of your abilities to operate an ActionCOACH business favours the level of experience you have gained as well as your attitudinal qualities.

This section requires you to disclose your business experience. Assessment will take a broad range of experience into consideration: Your level of management experience; training and or coaching experience; marketing and or sales experience and lastly, your level of overall experience in operating either a small business or managing a business unit or department.

In this day and age it is common practice for individuals to undertake activities that are not considered main-stream education but add to the individuals abilities to effectively operate a business or administer a business unit/department. In order to assess more fully your ability to succeed as an ActionCOACH Franchise Partner it is important to gain knowledge of the courses and personal development activities you have undertaken. This section details your activities within the further education and personal development arena.

This section covers a broad range of issues, which have been included to help ActionCOACH assess your attitudes in a number of areas. As an ActionCOACH business coach your attitude towards assisting people is a critical success factor.

When working for other organisations, what positions and or responsibilities have provided you with the highest level of satisfaction and secondly, why did these responsibilities give you satisfaction?

When working for other organisations, what positions and or responsibilities have provided you with the lowest level of satisfaction and secondly, why did these responsibilities give you limited satisfaction?

During your lifetime, what do you consider you have been successful at (major accomplishments) and why do you consider you were successful?

This section has been included so the ActionCOACH team gets an idea of what you are looking for in a business and helps the ActionCOACH team to assess a match between your desires and what the ActionCOACH opportunity offers you.

Detail your key financial requirements:

This section has been provided so you may list important questions that you may have about becoming an ActionCOACH Franchise Partner. These questions will be given due consideration and either your Action- COACH Master Franchisee/Licensee will contact you or a representative from the ActionCOACH Support Office.

This section details any financial partners or partners who you intend to have an interest in the business. Also included in the section are a list of people who ActionCOACH will contact to assess your potential as a Franchise Partner.

I understand that in signing this form I am not legally obliged to become an ActionCOACH Franchise Partner and that all the information I have provided is confidential for the purpose of assessing my eligibility and suitability as an ActionCOACH Franchise Partner.

The information contained in this report is not to be provided to any other person or organisation. If I do not become an ActionCOACH Franchise Partner this information is to be destroyed or returned to me at my request.