Tamara Morey Asking practices to share their people plan with us often results in blank stares, nervous laughter or a quick subject change. Is it because the term “people plan” sounds too corporate for smaller teams? Too warm and fuzzy, without enough action and results? Or maybe it just sounds like another document that’ll […]
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Tamara Morey The latest Hays Salary Guide (24/25) paints a fascinating (and slightly alarming) picture of employee retention trends. Of the 15,000 responses across 26 industries, a whopping 77% of Australian employees are either actively looking or planning to look for a new job within the next 12 months. Wow! That’s 3 out of every
Tamara Morey There are few things in life I would claim to be an expert on. (Remembering numbers, a great chicken soup, reverse parking, Bananagrams.) But as the co-founder of a business that has been 100% remote since its inception in 2013, I do know a thing or two about flexible working and how to
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Tamara Morey At the height of the GFC, I took on a role in a regional practice as a “paraplanner”. I was as green as they come and wasn’t entirely sure what, exactly, I would be planning. One of my first tasks was to call our margin loan clients and let them know they were
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Tamara Morey A wise man once told me that the problem with the world today is that there is too much emotion and not enough data. Operating an advice practice always has, and always will be, a numbers game. Put more clients in the funnel to convert more new clients. Get clear on your cost
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TNT Group took a poll of attending advisers at the recent FAAA Congress, asking them about what’s hindering them from producing more advice. The answer will likely come as no surprise: time.
That’s time to see more clients, time to get work done for existing clients and time to attract new clients. This is not new data and I’m sure many advisers are feeling this same pressure. But if we are all spending – more or less – a full working week committed to our craft, why are some advisers finding this harder than others?
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