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Top TED Talks for Financial Advisors & Leaders

After our last post on public speaking, we decided to seek out some of our favorite TED Talks. We were curious to see how the elements we advised were applied (or not)...

Your Financial Advisor Summer Checklist

Summer provides an excellent opportunity for financial advisors to work ON their businesses in addition to working IN their businesses. While many of your private...

Key CEO Behavior #26: Meaningful Individual Goals

Financial advisors work in financial services, but this doesn’t mean they are motivated entirely by finances… or at least it shouldn’t. Your work should have meaning to...

Part 2: 5 MORE Business Plan Elements Financial Advisors Must Consider

Last week we provided you with 5 items to cover, or at least consider, in your business plan for your financial advisory practice. These elements provide more of a...

Part I: Business Plan Elements Every Financial Advisor Must Cover

Sometimes a task that feels like back-tracking can actually give you the momentum to move forward. Our discussions surrounding succession planning have led many of you...

5 Keys to Reaching Team Goals And Having The Best Year Ever

Accomplishing Your Biggest Goals, which includes some really important points about the benefits of things like past failures, setting goals that seem unachievable, and...

How to Refresh Your Wealth Management Team in 2015

The beginning of the year is an exciting time, especially after the close of a successful previous one. All too frequently however, we simply “reconfigure” our strategic...

5 Measurements to Consider in Your 2015 Strategic Business Plan

Most financial advisors are incredibly focused on measuring their assets under management and anything else that impacts their production, but there are several other...

Financial Advisors! Make the Transition to Leader for 2015

Earlier this week we posted a blog about the difference between true teams and work groups. While this may have seemed clear on paper, the execution requires some key...

Keys to Success for the Highest Performing Financial Advisory Teams

What makes high performing financial advisory teams so successful? At ClientWise we are extremely careful to differentiate between true financial advisory teams and work...

7 Mistakes Financial Advisory Teams Will Make in 2015

Bringing together a financial advisory team is a huge endeavor and very often a differentiator between solo advisors with moderate success and those who decide to team...

7 Strategies to Effective Client Communication in a Volatile Market

I recently had a conversation with an investor who expressed frustration regarding her financial advisor’s lack of urgency in reaching out to her after the recent market...

How to Gain Return on Your Values

In business you can’t rest on your laurels; there are no guarantees. Ethical standards and staying on one’s toes are a basic requirement to sustaining a competitive...

To Plan for Succession or To Determine Enterprise Value?

As advisors you are tasked with the job of measuring value: The value of assets, the value of a trade, the value you bring to your relationships with your clients. But...

Think Like A CEO, Not a Top Producing Financial Advisor

As a financial advisor leading a team, or even a small staff, your responsibilities are often more like those of a CEO leading a company rather than those of a high...