• 4.1 min readPublished On: October 23, 2019

    Trainers: After Better Performance–or Just More Knowledge?

    Trainers: Are you after better performance--or just giving them more knowledge? Are you standing in front of your students to [...]

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  • 2.3 min readPublished On: September 10, 2019

    Drilling Down to Find Your Next Great Manager

    Finding your next great manager requires you to think through exactly what you want. See my qualifications below. In my [...]

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  • 2.9 min readPublished On: September 5, 2019

    How to Choose that Next Great Manager

    It's probably the toughest thing we do--hire a manager. And, there's little information to help us. That's why I wrote [...]

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  • 1.2 min readPublished On: August 6, 2019

    What are Your Standards and Expectations of your Agents?

    Do your agents know what's expected of them? Or, is ANYTHING expected of them? What are your standards of practice? [...]

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  • 4.3 min readPublished On: July 30, 2019

    Managers: Do You Say You ‘Have a Team’?

    Do you tell everyone that your agents are a 'team'. Really? Read what it means to be a 'team', and [...]

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  • 1.7 min readPublished On: July 1, 2019

    What Do Your Agents Think about your Onboarding Process?

    Is your onboarding process creating loyalty or 'buyer's remorse'? What do your agents think about your onboarding process? In my [...]

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  • 1.7 min readPublished On: June 3, 2019

    Four Ways to Avoid Boring Them to Tears!

    Here are four ways to avoid boring them to tears in a training session. I just sat in on a [...]

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  • 2 min readPublished On: May 29, 2019

    A Great Way to Teach: The Case Study

    Here's a great way to teach: the case study. It's a technique almost every trainer/presenter can use to break up [...]

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  • 4.1 min readPublished On: April 29, 2019

    Does Your Course ‘Fit’ the Adult Learner?

    Does your course 'fit' the adult learner? May is my designated Trainer Appreciation Month. So, I'm writing a blog series [...]

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