If you are reading this then you already likely have some insight into the fact that I think all relationship professionals should be using video to help leverage every element of engaging and servicing clients. Quite simply, you should be taking a video camera with you everywhere you go, because beyond a small initial outlay it really… [Keep reading]
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Are you just adding to the noise?
Silence has a hidden power that can be rivalled by no other, but so many of us choose to ‘ignore’ it and never come to realise its true potential. Everywhere we go we’re surrounded by noise, whether it be colleagues chatting by the water cooler, a TV on in an empty room, or tapping on the… [Keep reading]
Conflict – why it’s a good thing!
This week’s article by our Video Ninja, Nick KellyI watched The Shawshank Redemption for the millionth time recently. It’s a brilliant film, up there as one of my faves and I believe it is storytelling at its finest. It got me thinking a lot about the range of stories that we tell, whether in movie… [Keep reading]
Do you have an ‘Accountabilibuddy’?
I was having a chat with one of our clients today, giving them feedback on a Why video that he had filmed for himself. There were a few improvements for the client to take on board for their next attempt but I had huge respect for him ‘having a crack’. Too many people let their fear and… [Keep reading]
How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To
Every day there’s that one task that we just keep pushing further back, and the closer we get to the deadline the more anxious we get about where to begin. But what if we’re just sabotaging ourselves by thinking about it the wrong way? In this article, Heidi Grant Halvorson explains how to trick our natural behavioural… [Keep reading]
What will the future of Advice look like?
I want to take some time to give you some insight into what it will look like in the future to be an Advice Professional. It is critical that you understand how much is changing and how much of both opportunity and risk there is for you. If you are not already planning to be on… [Keep reading]
Screw Comfort Zones
It’s human nature to want things to be comfortable, and I believe that this can be a powerful cause of unhappiness in the World. Because what it does is create comfort zones; patterns of repetition that we are used to, and hold on to because they seem familiar and safe. But comfort zones don’t just form… [Keep reading]
The rise of social business (Part 2)
As published in Financial Planning Magazine (29th January 2014) What does all of this interconnection, technology, bombardment of information and sharing of content mean for business and more specifically, those of us who provide advice? It’s simple: 1. The escalation of information and content distribution makes decision making via ‘knowledge intake’ harder, not easier; 2…. [Keep reading]