LPL Financial, the largest independent broker-dealer in the country as measured by total revenue, has recently developed an innovative practice management program for...
As coaching has become more recognized as a practice management and career fulfillment tool for financial advisors, the use of internal coaches seems to be a growing...
With the increasing recognition and realization that coaching is a very useful tool for successful financial advisors, we are often asked how coaching is so effective....
In previous posts, (here…here…here…and here) we’ve commented on the 12 weeks between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. By our observation, financial advisors who excel during...
From what we have observed, there are five coaching skills that are immediately applicable to the repertoire of skills of the most successful advisors:
There’s a thoughtful post in a recent Harvard Business Review by Steven Berglas, PhD, Get the Most Out of Executive Coaching He highlights three considerations that...
For financial advisors, attending conferences can be a great opportunity to grow, learn, and connect. But they are what you make of them. Here are 9 observations that...
This recent post by Jaime Navarro, of the Fierce Conversations blog, Question Your Comparisons, struck a chord. She observes the tendency for us, i.e. humans, to observe...
One of our observations is that peer-to-peer learning can be a very effective coaching modality for successful financial advisors. Peer-based learning is both effective...
When interviewed by prospective ClientWise clients, I am frequently asked something like, “What’s the one or two coaching exercises that you find most helpful for...
What is your “hidden” potential? Do you believe that you are capable of far more than you have yet achieved during the course of your career and/or whatever calling you...
Pat Riley said this. If you know sports and basketball, you know Pat Riley. He’s a former coach and player. He’s now president of the Miami Heat. He’s regarded as one of...
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...
Change! When Bob Dylan wrote, “The Times They Are a-Changin'” in 1963, financial advisors were still referred to as the “customer’s man”. A customer’s man was...
A belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true. Collectively, we hold some interesting beliefs: Earth’s orbit. In a...