Most executives are extremely busy people, having to deal with many operational aspects simultaneously. It their job to oversee the company's day to day functioning, manage their workers, and efficiently delegate resources to the tasks at hand. They also have the responsibility of ensuring the quality control of their product or service. In addition to all this, they must constantly maintain and sharpen their skills with further training and education.
Today's business world provides many options for a manager to stay current. Training sessions, classes at a college or technical school, and a wide array of conferences and trade shows are available during the course of a year. However, these methods are expensive and time-consuming. Additionally, many of these opportunities take place on strict schedules that may exclude busy professionals from participating. It is also unlikely that each of these opportunities would hold universal appeal or even be relevant to a specific commercial sector.
Professional management coaching is an appealing alternative. A manager can stay up to date with new innovations in their field. Professional coaches are often highly experienced executives with practical knowledge. Many have valuable interpersonal skills and have established a variety of networking contacts. A coach makes himself available at all hours of the day, giving a manager flexibility to avoid scheduling conflicts.
A professional management coach can help a manager with time management methods for their employees. They can also help to set up schedules that will help workers prioritize assignments and projects. A coach can also help an employee to balance their home and work lives. This can decrease the stress that usually comes along with management jobs.
Professional management coaching is considered to be a valuable resource for employees. A lot of businesses will provide coaching, or reimburse the cost for completed sessions. Coaching is also valuable to managers because it increases a person's marketability, and does not cost anything to the manager. Businesses are aware that a well-trained manager is the most effective kind.
Professional coaching is key for an employee to reach full potential as management, which gives them an advantage in their field. The most suited coach can help employees attain bigger goals, to become more productive and securing a business' success.
Today's business world provides many options for managers to stay current. Professional management coaching is an appealing alternative. A manager can stay up to date with new innovations in their field. Professional coaches are often highly experienced executives with practical knowledge. Many have valuable interpersonal skills and have established a variety of networking contacts. A coach makes himself available at all hours of the day, giving a manager flexibility to avoid scheduling conflicts. A good coach assists in setting and achieving higher goals, increasing productivity, and contributing towards the company's ongoing prosperity.
How do you invest? What do you really pay? At the end of the day, what are your real results? These are questions smart investors should be asking themselves (but usually don't). In this era of more fees, misc. charges, holding periods and back end redemptions, even at discount brokers, how are you really making out?
Working with a new client brought this all to my attention. I know what I found may not apply to everyone; however it will apply to many and very likely apply to you.
I need to preface this by saying that, unlike the majority of registered investment advisors, I have built my practice over the past 15 years by dealing with ?small? investors. Many of them are first timers because my minimum account size is only $5,000.
I targeted this group because I enjoy the educational part of my business. A happy side benefit has been that by providing million dollar service to these so called ?small? investors, they naturally refer me to parents, relatives, friends and business associates, often with considerably more assets than the original client. What a happy consequence.
Having set the stage, here's what happened with my new client who we will call John. John was 26, newly married with a one year old son. His wife was taking care of the child and John had a good full time job. After selling his house in California and moving to Florida he had $6,000 left for starting a long-term investment program.
Though he had been reading my newsletter for about a year, John decided to manage his 401k on his own. It was a noble effort but provided less than desirable results.
He then attempted to set up a brokerage account at a major discount broker. With his $6,000 he was told that the quarterly fee would be $45, and, of course, if he sold any mutual fund within the first 180 days, there would be an early redemption fee.
$45 per quarter would be equal to an annual fee of 3% of his starting balance. John called me somewhat frustrated and said that he'd be willing to set up an account with me, but how would it make sense if in addition he'd have to pay my advisory management fee?
That was a good question because it certainly doesn't make sense to have an account in any type of market environment and pay about 6% in fixed annual fees.
However, what John didn't know was that if you have an account with a registered investment advisor who is affiliated with custodial broker, the fee structure changes.
What did that mean to him? It meant that I opened the account for him as a new client. He now has no annual fees, other than my management fee, and his 180 day holding period for mutual funds is reduced to 90 days, minimizing, if not eliminating, the likelihood of an early redemption fee.
The net result was that he would receive the benefit of my experience?which he already trusted based on my track record of pulling clients out of the market in October 2000?and it would cost him no more, and likely less, than his discount brokerage account.
Needless to say, John was very relieved. In essence, he traded broker garbage fees for professional management at no additional cost to him.
And, since he itemizes his deductions on his tax return, all fees paid are tax deductible, which is just an added bonus to factor into the equation.
It turned out to be an all around win-win situation for John. I encourage you to review your situation and see if what looks like a discount in fees is actually costing you a premium.
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