The Client-centred Blog
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Two emotions – which one do you operate from?
Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to come across and even get to train a couple of times with the great Steve Chandler. Steve has written over thirty books and is a world-famous success coach to high-achieving business people, CEO’s, best-selling authors and Fortune 500 companies. For me, Steve is by far the best…
Selling financial planning – your job is not to convince people it’s for YOU to be convinced
How many people come dancing into your office asking you to create them a financial plan? It rarely, if ever, happens, right? No one wants financial planning, just like no one wants coaching. Usually, there is trigger event that leads a client thinking they want a financial product, or a financial issue solved. So, instead…
Why clients won’t open up and tell you everything
A while back I gave a series of presentations to advisers titled ‘Creating a transformational client experience’. One of the recurring questions that came up was: How do I get clients to open up to me? ‘How’ is a process word and I think what people assume is that there is some kind of technique…
This will skyrocket your ability to influence
We live in a world that talks far too much and listens far too little. People love to tell other people their opinions, ideas or just what happens to be on their mind. It seems that most people want to be interesting rather than interested. As a professional person, being able to effectively influence others…
The key to successful client presentations
When presenting your financial plan and solutions to a client you want them to be in a highly receptive state and eager to listen to you, don’t you? But the process begins long before you get to this point. Just recently I had lunch with a friend who was telling me about her latest business…
Turning clients away – is it good for business?
Towards the end of last year, I was privileged to be invited along to a focus group for a financial planning client of mine. A group of the firms clients had been invited along to a half-day event where an external marketing agency explored with the group a number of important questions, including: *Why they…
The invisible side of client engagement
Client engagement seems to be a bit of a buzz term at the moment and yet what it is and how you achieve it is still widely misunderstood. Ultimately, advancing technology will see to it that face to face advice must offer more than a purely transactional, product-based service if it is to turn a…
How to overcome ‘taking things personally’
Something that I think is true for every person is that, from time to time, we can find ourselves taking something personally. It could be over anything, but it is extremely common if we feel we are being judged, someone criticises us or if we have built up our expectations around something and it doesn’t…
Where do you find new clients?
What prompted this article was recently reading that 70% of advisers are actively seeking new clients. I know from working for myself for over twenty five years and working with dozens of my own clients that consistently bringing on new clients can seem a big challenge. Typical questions that people ask themselves when wanting to…
What they don’t teach you at financial planning school
When I became a self-employed financial adviser in 1991, I attended a week long training programme and I was then expected to go out and make a living. Frankly, the failure rate for new advisers was appallingly high. Fast forward to now and the way people enter the business is completely different. The training and…