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The 6 Steps To Growing Your People

by Tony Vidler Introducing leverage into a professional services firm is most often done through adding people, and growing your people leads to growing your firm. Finding and developing the right people is one of the greatest challenges for professional services firms, and also one of the greatest opportunities it has for creating […]

Client Segmentation Needs To Be Done Commercially

by Tony Vidler It is logical to do a bit of client segmentation so that you can figure out what levels of service can be offered to which clients profitably. The funny thing is that most of the time it is the “profitably” part that gets lost in the client categorisation process…. While […]

Getting Strategic Clarity Follows The Same Process As Giving Advice

by Tony Vidler The most important business-building step is having a well-defined strategy, yet strategy is one of the most misunderstood concepts in professional services. It is an area that many advisory firms struggle with, and frequently find themselves without any clearly defined strategy for how they will achieve their business objectives. That is […]

Why Your Staff Fail You

by Tony Vidler It isn’t terribly unusual to find advisers taking on staff and being disappointed reasonably quickly, as the staff fail to deliver quite what the adviser expected or was hoping for…. So why do your people fail you? I don’t believe they do usually….I think we fail them. Let’s […]

Investing Time In Your People Gives Great Returns

by Tony Vidler Professional advisers have never been under more time pressure than they are today, and of all the things they could be investing time in the one which is easiest to defer is investing time in people. Everything is else is more pressing and demanding than a practice leaders own people […]

The 3 Elements To Hiring An Adviser Successfully

by Tony Vidler Hiring an adviser to join the team is one of the biggest (and most expensive) steps that any adviser takes in growing their practice. It is expensive in financial terms, in time, and most importantly in energy and stress. Getting it right is soooooo hard….and getting it wrong happens so […]

Big Wins Come From Being Decisive

by Tony Vidler Paralysis from analysis is generally an achilles heel of professional services it seems, and amidst all the change and carnage of financial advice simply being decisive can be a winning difference for practice owners. Indecision is prevalent at the moment, with the opaque nature of ongoing regulatory reform in many […]

“Uber”-ise to transform a good practice into a GREAT business

by Tony Vidler The million-dollar-question for financial advisers (literally!) is: “How do I go about leveraging a good professional practice into a great business that is worth heaps?” Answer: Uber-ise it. The inherent assumption in this question is that one already has a good professional practice, so let’s take that as […]

Building A Profitable AND Valuable Practice

by Tony Vidler Building a profitable practice is is the first objective for practitioners, but building a sustainable profitable and valuable practice is even better isn’t it? Many good practitioners achieve the objective of building a profitable practice easily enough. After all, that is little more than keeping the sales and revenue pumping […]

How to create the Advisory Firm culture that you WANT

by Tony Vidler New regulatory expectations for financial advisers include defining and articulating their culture. How does the advisory firm’ culture get defined requires some deep thinking, but then so too does the matter of ensuring that the culture you defined is actually reflected in your firms’ actions. How do you create the culture […]

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