Real Estate Training Articles and Videos

How To Make Less Profit

Real estate business consultant and author of Why Winners Win, Gary Pittard, acknowledges that this title is a negative one, but success is not always about doing the right actions: it is just as important to stop doing certain actions. Real estate businesses are notorious for ‘following the herd’. They offer clients few, if any, . . .   more →

Double Standards

Business owners can be quick to complain about the actions their team members are not performing, but are often guilty of failing to perform the actions to which they themselves have committed. In this short leadership session, real estate business consultant and author of Why Winners Win, Gary Pittard, explains how double standards can tarnish . . .   more →

Hold People Accountable

One of the biggest complaints leaders make is that they cannot get their salespeople to focus on winning actions – those that lead to results. While some the problem is caused by that negative word, Can’t – if you say you can’t you are always right – much of the problem is caused because the . . .   more →

The Part You Play

Many business owners fail to realise the part they play in developing their teams to full potential. While each team member has a responsibility to develop himself or herself into the best salesperson possible, the highest calling of leadership is to bring out the best in people. Many, if not most, offices do a minimum . . .   more →

Destination Called Greatness

Leaders often remark how hard it is to get salespeople to do the right actions – those that lead to results. Have you ever wondered why salespeople fight you when you try to help them become more successful? In this short leadership session, real estate business consultant, Gary Pittard, explains how to lead your people . . .   more →

Three Steps to Profit

Gary Pittard, business adviser and author of Why Winners Win – what it takes to be successful in business and life, says, “Some things in life are non-negotiable. Three of them are the steps to profit.” Although the three steps to profit that Gary explains do not exact a high price, they are compulsory . . .   more →

Profit and Your List-To-Sell Ratio

One of the most important factors in your agency’s success is the list-to-sell ratio. In this short leadership session, Gary Pittard, business adviser and author of Why Winners Win – what it takes to be successful in business and life, explains that if you want more profit, without increasing your expenses, you must do more . . .   more →

Hiring – Don’t Be a Heart Buyer

Desperate hirers are not good hirers. When we become desperate for staff we make rash, and often wrong, decisions. We hire with our hearts and not our heads. In this short leadership session, real estate business adviser and trainer, Gary Pittard, explains the importance of keeping our pipelines of potential winning team members full, so . . .   more →

The Leader’s Number One Job

With so many things a real estate agency leader must do, what is the number one job that must never be overlooked? In this short real estate leadership session, real estate trainer, Gary Pittard, explains what the number one job is, and highlights some of the areas where leaders should concentrate their efforts.

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Leadership Skill and the Mirror Principle

Your team is a mirror of you. Dynamic leader, dynamic team. Lazy leader, lazy team. In this short real estate leadership session, real estate sales trainer Gary Pittard discusses the importance of leadership skill and its effect on team performance.

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A Major Law of Marketing

There are many laws of marketing, some more important than others. In this short leadership session real estate trainer, Gary Pittard, discusses one law that many real estate businesses violate every day – and it costs them profit. The remedy is not difficult, but it could give you a competitive edge, and many more . . .   more →

Accountability

Real estate agency owners and leaders often complain that it is difficult to get salespeople to perform winning actions that lead to results. They have also been known to complain that it is hard to get salespeople to focus. When salespeople are not held accountable for their actions, their level of winning actions is . . .   more →

Leadership Talents

In this short leadership session real estate leadership and sales trainer, Gary Pittard, shares Sheila Murray Bethel’s Ten Statements for Change and Growth. Leadership is not always easy. By defining our values as leaders, and as human beings, we set ethical and moral boundaries, something that all leaders should do.

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Technology

Choosing the right technology for your business can be so confusing that many real estate agency leaders put it in the ‘Too Hard Basket’. In this short real estate leadership training session, real estate trainer, Gary Pittard, discusses the most important aspects of technology.

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Standards

Successful real estate agencies have leaders who set high standards, and who ensure those standards are maintained. In the absence of high standards we can be pulled down to the level of those who have low standards, mediocrity being the end result. In this short real estate leadership session, Gary Pittard discusses those standards most . . .   more →

The Best Leadership Tool Ever

Whether you are interested in the leadership of a real estate agency, or the leadership of any other business, like most leaders you may be looking for good leadership tools, tools designed to help you lead your team to higher results and therefore more profit for you.

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Pretend To Be Poor

Real estate sales and leadership trainer, Gary Pittard, says, “I have seen many people go broke because they spent more money than they earned. While their credit lasted, they pretended to be rich. But the day always comes when it’s time to pay the piper. Out the back door go the big spenders”.

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Five Signs Of A Poor Leader

None of us is the perfect leader, but there is no doubt that some have mastered the art of leadership better than others. In this short leadership session, real estate sales and leadership trainer, Gary Pittard, points out five signs that indicate poor leadership. Forewarned is forearmed. Being aware of the signs of poor . . .   more →

Spend Money To Make Money

You’ve got to spend money to make money!” WHO SAYS? Spending money to boost your profits should be a last resort. There are other ways to increase profit and to reduce expenses without large inputs of cash. Join real estate sales and leadership trainer, Gary Pittard, for this short leadership session that shows how to . . .   more →

The Open Door Policy

Are you the kind of leader whose door is always open to team members? In this short real estate leadership session, real estate management expert, Gary Pittard, describes why an open door policy might not be such a good idea. If your door is always open, you could be setting yourself up to micromanage, and . . .   more →