EPM: HR and Recruitment
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How to help your property management department flex
Without a doubt, the number 1 concern we hear in our consulting business is around staff - where to find them, how to train them, and how to manage them.
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How to overcome wage woes in the modern agency
What is stopping your agency from achieving growth, and not just surviving but thriving in the current market? Most people would say it’s cash. Whether it’s growing your people through training and development, growing your market though lead generation and business development, or growing up operationally by investing in new technology, it all takes time and costs money. So the…
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Losing It: Perspective and the Property Manager
Times of stress and demand, such as the start of each new year and the close of each financial year, can take their toll, both psychologically and physically, on even the most experienced of property managers. Choosing to power on without time for recuperation can quickly lead to serious illness and depression – all of which take you out of…
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Why Am I Here?
AFTER 17 YEARS IN REAL ESTATE, business coach Jacob Aldridge has sat through more than 6,800 meetings. You’ve probably been to a few yourself. If you’ve ever found yourself asking ‘Why am I here?’ you need to check out these five steps to making meetings more productive and valuable to all participants. HAVE YOU EVER been to a meeting that…
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You Thought You Were a Property Manager, Didn’t You?
THREE YEARS AGO, you were employed by your agency to run a portfolio of 150 properties and had the title ‘Property Manager’ on your business card. As times have changed, many agencies have resorted to outsourcing their administration tasks. Lauren Kropp examines the effect has this had on the traditional PM role. A few years ago, every lettings agency employed…
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The Undercover Temp: Lauren Kropp
What is it really like to be a temp in a property management department? Easy, you might think; you just come in, do your job, leave at the end of the contract and get paid well. But if you do think that, you are greatly mistaken, as Lauren Kropp, Director of Real Strategix, found out for herself. We’ve all seen…
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Top Three Ways to Recruit on Social Media
Social media has become an integral part of Real Estate marketing strategies. Most activities, including recruiting agents, gathering customer interest and promoting agents, run through social channels in some way. Here are three top ways to use social media as an effective Real Estate recruiting tool: Use Video to Sell Video has become the most powerful social tool the Real…
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Five Tips for Managing Virtual Teams
Virtual teams are an increasingly common part of the Australian real estate industry, thanks to the reduced overhead and limitless location flexibility they allow. Whether you’re going all-virtual or integrating one remote worker, the lack of in-person communication can be a challenge. With the right strategies, you can build a strong, productive team. 1. Integrate Video Conferencing For real estate…
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Searching for Wally
Finding the right member of staff can be a matter of sifting through a great many potential candidates before you strike gold. For our new people-focused column, Fiona Blayney asks: is your people strategy really sustainable, or is it time to think outside the box? AS I TUCK MY daughters into bed, we go through the final leg of the…
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Choice And Challenges: Where Will You Go Next?
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT is a career that is rich with options. Where will you go next? Virginia Brookes outlines the possibilities for the years ahead. LEASING OR PROPERTY OFFICER You’ve landed your first role in property management and you’re learning the ropes. This is your first real chance to see where your strengths lie and what you enjoy. Do you relish…
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Paying A Revenue Split – Holy Grail Or Poisoned Chalice?
PAYING A PROPERTY MANAGER a percentage of income generated by the properties they manage seems to have some obvious benefits and is discussed often. But is it all plain sailing? Brock Fisher looks at the pros and cons. FROM THE BUSINESS perspective, paying a revenue split allows the wage-to-gross-income ratio of the business to be optimised and managed effectively. From…
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Human Resources – Virginia Brookes
In Issue 08 of Elite Agent we had six experts provide their top tips for 2016 in our special feature 30 top business boosting ideas. Here are the top five from Virginia Brookes of Resolver Recruitment. Success means different things to different people. We all start climbing the career ladder on the same first step and focus on a different outcome that…
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Who’s Behind That Door?
PERSONAL SECURITY IS A MAJOR CONCERN to real estate agents as the job involves a high degree of working alone or in remote areas. Bob Barrington from Lone Worker Safety looks at a range of technologies designed to help keep your staff safe. IT IS PART AND parcel of the industry that agents frequently work alone at clients’ properties, leaving…
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Right From the Start
Natalie Hastings looks at ways to improve your team’s performance in 2015 through better recruitment and training. A FRESH NEW year lies before you, offering the chance to make 2015 your best real estate adventure yet. Before the year begins in earnest, take time to think about your business and the people who power it. To make 2015 the outstanding…
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A Good Property Management Temp is Hard to Find
Currently, the average life span of a Property Manager is nine months, causing a constant headache for a principal with an average rent roll of approximately 500 properties employing 3 portfolio Property Managers. Three Property Managers, all of whom have four weeks annual leave per year meaning that as the business owner, you need to cover 12 weeks holidays. The solution, “Bring…
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Blue Ocean Recruitment
Blue Ocean Recruitment: Thinking outside the square when it comes to finding new staff. It was in the recent issue of Leased Magazine that Fiona introduced ‘Blue Ocean’ property management. The concept of a ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’ originated with the work of W Chan Kim and R Mauborgne in the book of the same name. A Blue Ocean Strategy is…
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Horrible Bosses!
A recent Hollywood blockbuster starring Jason Bateman, Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Aniston, focused on a group of friends, all frustrated by their selfish, conniving bosses, and raised issues that the majority of us will have experienced at some stage in our working lives. Nick, Dale and Kurt decide murder and blackmail is the only way to resolve their issues, but…
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