• 3.1 min readPublished On: December 3, 2012

    Business Planning: How to Create that Training Calendar You Don’t Have…

    In November and December, I'm focusing on business planning, to help you and your agents get a great business plan [...]

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  • 4 min readPublished On: October 16, 2012

    What Does a Piano Teacher Know about Real Estate Training?

    What does a piano teacher know about real estate? Well, perhaps he or she doesn't know the specifics, but, my [...]

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  • 0.3 min readPublished On: October 1, 2012

    How To Start any Presentation with Flair

      Whether you're in front of your real estate office, doing a listing presentation, or speaking before 400 Realtors at [...]

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  • 2.5 min readPublished On: September 7, 2012

    Two Best Management Tips from My Eighth Grade Teacher

    Where did you learn your two best management tips? I learned mine from my eighth grade teacher! If we really [...]

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  • 3 min readPublished On: September 5, 2012

    Are Your New Agents ‘Slow and Crawling’?

    A�Are you getting your new agents up and runninga��or are they slow and crawling?A� As managers and recruiters, we're looking [...]

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  • 2.2 min readPublished On: August 28, 2012

    What’s Wrong with Your New Agent Training?

    Right now, I'm writing a new agent training program for a major national franchise. In it,A�I'm guarding against the very [...]

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  • 1.9 min readPublished On: August 20, 2012

    10 Tips to Make your Training Pay Off

    I'm getting ready to teach my Instructor Development course here in Washington state. To do that, I send a pre-course [...]

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  • 1.2 min readPublished On: July 2, 2012

    Mid-Year: Time to Evaluate your Progress, Yes?

    As I'm doing this blog, I am reminded that it's mid-year--a great time to evaluate our progress. So, in this [...]

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  • 3.2 min readPublished On: June 14, 2012

    Synch your Agents’ Systems for Better Time Management

    Are your agents drowning in clutter? If I walked into your office, (or your agents' offices), could I see processes [...]

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