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How To Deliver The “Right Advice” In The “Right” Way

October 21, 2025

Delivering the right advice consists of getting 2 things right: delivering advice that will work for the client, and delivering it in a manner which will result in the client taking action upon the advice.…

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Why Growth Doesn’t Happen

October 3, 2025

It’s easy to use external factrors to justify why growth doesn’t happen, but usually the reason is “internal factors”. Growing productivity – or getting financial advisers to grow themselves and their business capability – appears…

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“Always Be Coaching”, NOT “Always Be Closing”

January 28, 2025

Coaching clients is a concept which is gaining traction with financial advisers, and for many this is a new line of thinking. After all, they were taught years ago that “you should always be closing”,…

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Financial Advisers Should Be Coaching

September 5, 2023

Coaching is about changing behaviour in order to change results. Advising is telling people what, and perhaps how, something should be done. Advising is basically “having the answer” and telling someone what it is in…

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How To Coach Your People To Greater Success

June 29, 2022

One of the best ways to improve results for your firm is to coach your people to greater levels of professional and personal success, rather than merely “managing” them. There is a huge difference between…

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How To Get Paid For Each Piece Of Advice You Give

June 20, 2022

Here’s a simple strategy for getting paid fairly for the advice you give….and I mean getting paid for ALL the advice you give…every step of the way. There are broadly three possible parts to any…

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Show Prospects Your Advice Planning Process To Get CLIENTS

February 12, 2021

The Challenge: Getting prospects to buy into your financial advice planning process. The Solution: Show them HOW the process works before asking them to commit. The keywords there are “show” and “how“….and it is because…

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Position Advice Properly as Success Coaching

March 30, 2020

The perennial challenge in selling advice is positioning it as valuable, and we should think about it and describe it the right way: great advice is about coaching. It IS coaching. Giving advice is all…

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