Category: Training
Behavioral Coaching, Your Practice, and Your Paycheck
The Scenario There’s an old story about the future of air travel; the pilot’s job is fully computer-controlled from before takeoff to after landing yet, as the story goes, every flight has a human pilot and a dog in the cockpit. The dog’s job? Bite the pilot if they touch any of the controls. Here’s…
Read MoreWant an Immediate, Powerful and Sustainable Boost to your Revenue? Perfect your Approach to Strategic Pre-Call Planning
Schedule a Call Pre-call planning, once perfected, is one of – if not THE – most powerful practices we know of to accelerate revenue growth while enhancing your teams’ ability to consistently deliver truly differentiated value in their prospect and client calls Yet, the reality is that many do not even do pre-calls prior to…
Read MoreAdvisor 2.0: What Makes the BEST Advisor
The Intangibles A few weeks ago the leader of a successful RIA we work with called me about our last blog, What Makes a GREAT Advisor. He said he completely agreed with the claim we made that if the skills, disciplines and practices addressed in that blog are mastered, you’re sure to have a highly…
Read MoreAdvisor 2.0: What Makes a GREAT Advisor?
In July we posted a blog titled “Re-Imagining the Wealth Management Experience: Advisor2.0.” In this blog we described the fact that the experience required to be competitive in today’s wealth management landscape has evolved, requiring more breadth, depth and skill of advisors. Interestingly, this was one of the most popular blogs we have ever posted,…
Read MoreRe-Imagining the Wealth Management Experience: Advisor 2.0
How will you differentiate and drive growth in the modern era of wealth management? I will start out here by stating the obvious – the wealth management industry is changing, and changing at break-neck speed. But what is not so obvious is that the majority of advisors we see out there continue to prospect, serve…
Read MoreFinancial Advisor Social Security Challenge
The Challenge Social Security benefits are key to most Americans’ quality of life during retirement. Yet, an alarming number of clients approaching retirement do not have a basic understanding of Social Security benefits. Twelve fundamental questions were posed to 1,5001 pre-retirees to gauge their Social Security knowledge. Take the same true/false survey quiz below to…
Read MoreKey Questions to Maximize the Impact of Your “Training Initiatives”
Between 85 and 90% of sales training has no lasting impact beyond 90 days. Sales Benchmark Index Recently, we were asked by a Private Banking Executive Leader, “What questions can you share that would help us ferret out training and development opportunities?” As confirmed by the statistic above, traditional training programs do not result in…
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