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Financial Advisors: “So, how was your week?”
If you had a good friend who had been off the grid camping for the past 7 days, who called you this morning and innocently asked, “So, how was your week?”…where would...
Financial Advisors: Free Up Time: Don’t Do Everything.
There was a nice post the other day by Elizabeth Grace Saunders on the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, "How to Allocate Your Time, and Your Effort". My takeaways...
We Stand Together
By Ray Sclafani In this moment, we stand together with our nation and our president to mourn and honor all those who lost their lives, or were injured, during the...
Financial Advisors: How to Frame Yourself as "Irreplaceable"
As a financial advisor, even a very successful financial advisor, are you irreplaceable? New York Times columnist and author, Paul Sullivan, poses this very question in...
Financial Advisors: 8 Essential Elements to Developing a Great Team
In The Wisdom of Teams, authors Katzenback and Smith define a team as: “…a small group of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose,...
Leadership (and Humanity) in the Moment: Luke Hancock and Kevin Ware
In the literature of financial advisors, as well as the lexicon of sport, “leadership” and “heroism” are virtually clichés. We read all sorts of articles and books on...
5 Good Reads on Listening: A "Secret" Skill for Financial Advisors
“You're short on ears and long on mouth.”…John Wayne A very Duke-like quote on listening, as spoken by John Wayne as Big Jake. Big Jake wasn’t one of the Duke’s best...
Financial Advisors: How to Partner with Problem Clients
Are you a financial advisor who has a client (or clients) who, whenever they call, your stomach tenses up in a twisted knot because there is no pleasing them? If so,...
The Spring Sprint: Our Top 16 Financial Advisor Posts on Planning
Today is the 92nd day of the year, with 273 days remaining in 2013. Yikes! I know that it’s a cliché to say this, but does the year seem to be flying by for you? Maybe,...
Financial Advisors: What do you want to achieve in the 2nd quarter?
If you believed that anything was possible, what do you really want to achieve in the second quarter? If there were no constraints upon you, what is the limit to your...
Financial Advisors: Ditch the Pitch! 4 Ideas for Better Intro's
An elevator pitch for financial advisors and successful professionals are typically short and sweet -- they seem like a no-brainer. Consolidating your value proposition...
Your Growth Mindset: A Key Factor to Raising $25-100 Million Annually
As a business coaching firm that works with leading financial advisors to create client acquisition structures that consistently raise $25-100 million in assets each...
How Financial Advisors Build Useful Behavioral Momentum with Clients
Each quarter, Russell Market Research compiles the Financial Professional Outlook, the collected opinions of financial advisors from national, regional, and independent...
Building a Referral Process for Financial Advisors: Top 10 Tips
For financial advisors, referrals can be a surprisingly tricky business. On the one hand, everyone knows that referrals are good and something to strive for. On the...