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The Forgotten Rookie Syndrome

Many salespeople either become sales managers or move into a leadership role as owners of their own real estate businesses. Gary Pittard, CEO of the real estate agency profit consultants, Pittard®, believes that author, Chris Lytle, is correct in calling these people, ‘the forgotten rookies’.

Leadership and Sales are different skills. To think that a great salesperson can lead a team without any leadership training is just as stupid as presuming that a great Flight Attendant can pilot the plane.

For salespeople-cum-leaders, the sales habit is hard to kick. But if you’re too busy selling and don’t spent enough time leading, you are on a fast track to low profit.

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Succession Planning All Talk or All Action

In this short leadership session, real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, discusses Succession Planning. Many agency leaders talk about it, but when questioned about what they have done with their succession planning, Gary finds that often very little has been done.

Selling Rent Rolls is a relatively straightforward process, but sales departments can be a little trickier, mostly because outside buyers do not expect them to be profitable. Therefore, you don’t have people queuing up to buy them. So, what’s your plan?

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Sharpen The Saw

Real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, recommends that leaders give their salespeople knowledge tests, yearly at least. If you think that excessive, remember that salespeople get tested all the time. Every time a seller asks, “Why should I list with you?”, the salesperson is tested. Do you want them to respond with the right words?

Keep your team’s knowledge fresh and current. Sharpen the saw.

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The Pretence of Social Media

Social media marketing is, or should be, a company function, and not a task undertaken by individual salespeople. Real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, says, “The pretence of social media is that it is a viable replacement for prospecting. It is not.” In this short leadership session, we discuss the folly of wasting too much time on social media at the expense of speaking with people by telephone or face-to-face.

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Know Your People, Encourage Your People

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In his final ill-fated expedition in Africa, explorer Henry Stanley paid the ultimate price for straying from his usual practice – he didn’t choose his people and he didn’t know them. This short leadership session from real estate agency profit consultant Gary Pittard reminds us of the importance of knowing and encouraging our people.

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Create A Success Environment

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Real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, says, “Real estate agency owners have the options to build their companies into success environments, or do nothing and create mediocrity environments by default”. In this short leadership session, Gary shows how to create a success environment – always the most profitable option.

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Your Number One Leadership Asset

The number one asset for all leaders is their integrity, their character.

Real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, says that integrity and character lead to trust, and when your people trust you, they will follow you and help your company grow, no matter how tough the market.

Little things make a difference. For example, asking the receptionist to tell a client that you are not in, when you are, erodes your integrity in the eyes of all team members present.

“Little white lie” – there’s no such thing.

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Habits Reign Supreme

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Whether a real estate agency leader, or a salesperson, good habits propel you toward success, while bad habits hold you back.

Real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, believes that repeated actions become habits over time. Repeat the right actions and good habits form. Unproductive actions, or inaction, also become habit – bad ones.

Habits reign supreme – wouldn’t it be better to develop habits that lead to success?

Keep Marketing

It’s an easy option to blame the market when business is slow, but real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, asks, “How much marketing are you doing?”.

When promoting advertising to clients, real estate agents often advise sellers that they should not keep their property ‘a secret’. Shouldn’t they follow their own advice and market their own agencies?

Where Are You Taking Your Company

As the owner of a real estate business, you are its leader. Real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, suggests that, as the leader, you should know exactly where you are taking your company. Fail to plan and you run the risk of leading your company downwards. Where are you taking your company? Do you know?

Sack Your Dilberts

While the cartoon series, Dilbert, might be funny, real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, says that in real life, Dilberts can be anything but. He quotes author, Geoff Burch, who offers sound advice: Sack Your Dilberts!

The Right Amount Of Pressure

There is a difference between threatening team members with dismissal for poor performance and applying positive pressure to perform. In this short leadership session, real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, says that winners thrive on positive pressure, while mediocre performers detest it. But do you want mediocrity on your team?

Unattractive Company

One of the top three greatest real estate excuses of all time is: “You can’t find good people!” In this leadership session, real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard gives a compelling reason why most real estate agencies fail to build winning teams: they are unattractive companies.

Never utter those profit-killing words, “You can’t find good people”. The first step in building a winning team is to believe that you can find winners. The second step is to make your company more attractive to potential recruits.

Cut To The Chase

Have you ever noticed how some people say five sentences when a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ would have sufficed? Some people speak a lot but say little. Real estate agencies cannot afford to have team members like that.

In this short leadership session, real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, says that salespeople who waffle confuse clients and lose business. Salespeople who waffle to their colleagues lose respect. Cut to the chase – every team will benefit from some straight talk.

Money In The Bank

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What most real estate agents refer to as ‘Marketing’ is really nothing more than ‘Advertising’. Advertising is just one small component of the large umbrella that is Marketing. Agents place ads on property portals, they erect signs and distribute leaflets, but these are all advertising. What other MARKETING do they do? Not much really.

In this short leadership session, real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, explores one marketing channel that is guaranteed to put money in the bank.

Whose Bright Idea Is This?

It is no secret that far too many business people, salespeople and leaders, hold training in low regard. In this short leadership session, real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, asks, “Whose bright idea is this?”

How would you feel if you went to a doctor who qualified in 1960, but who never attended a training course since? Mediocrity and lack of training are close cousins!

Break Even Early

“If you want to boost your real estate agency’s profit, put more focus on your agency’s Break Even Point”, says real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard. “The sooner you break even, the sooner you begin to profit”.

How much focus do you give your Break Even Point? How many sales does your office need to break even each month? These are figures that all real estate agency owners MUST know!

What is a Result

The best leaders Pittard works with NEVER allow their offices to close unless their agencies have at least one real result for the day. But what is a REAL result? In this short leadership session, real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, explains the four results and shows the importance of focusing on them. You incur expenses every day, so shouldn’t your real estate agency be getting results every day?

Eleven Attributes of Leadership

Whether you run an agency and have a team to lead, or you are a salesperson with clients to lead, you are a leader. And let’s not forget that we must also lead ourselves.

In his book, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill names Eleven Major Attributes of Leadership. In this short leadership session, real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, discusses these eleven attributes and offers tips for applying them to your business.

The Leader As Coach

Salespeople need far more coaching than typical salespeople receive. In this short leadership session, real estate agency profit consultant, Gary Pittard, says that while there are many good seminars and presenters in the marketplace, there are simply not enough regular seminars in your town or city for that method of training to be sufficient to develop a winning team.

Not only must the real estate agency have access to the latest training, delivered through modern training delivery systems, the leader must step up and coach.