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Summary: Many advisors are solo practitioners, running their own business with no other employees. But as advisory teams become more common and advisory firms continue to merge together to build scale, many advisors are finding themselves at the top of a hierarchy, with a number of employees reporting to them. Carla Harris, vice chairman of wealth management, managing director and senior client advisor at Morgan Stanley, had some practical advice for advisors who find themselves in leadership positions.
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Summary: Management guru Peter Drucker once described predicting the future as driving down a country road at night with no lights on while looking out the rear window. Admittedly, no one can precisely predict how advisers and firms will work too far down the road. Nevertheless, several forces in the larger economy and society evident today are shaping the future of advice in key ways. Here are three examples coming our way, and their possible impact on the provision of financial advice.
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Summary: We were like sponges for new ideas and experimented with the growth tactics we learned at conferences, from colleagues, from articles and books. And while we didn’t necessarily know what we were doing, we were clear that we wanted to grow and that focus felt great.
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Summary: Do you feel like your business is going unnoticed? Is your message not reaching the right people or anyone at all? Do you wonder why some people have 10,000 likes on their article and you only have 100?
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Summary: [VIDEO] Is there a right way to hire people? Just like there's no one perfect way to manage a team, there's no one perfect way to hire and train employees. However, there are best practices for doing so.