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Melanie Wyne
March 23, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Missy,
So true! Its true in a real estate business. Its true in a corporate or other organizational setting and its true generally in life. Thanks for the post.
Lani Rosales
March 23, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Missy, fabulous thoughts- I like that as a team leader you understand the value of listening before ruling. Fantastic advice here! 🙂
Erica Ramus
March 23, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Missy
I am impressed you worked out an agreeable split with that unhappy Buyer Agent. Good for you.
One backbiting, gossipy person can put an entire office off kilter. It is good you nipped that in the bud.
Oh, and swearing someone to secrecy rarely works!
Missy Caulk
March 23, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Erica, my husband says a secret is telling ONE person at a time. No they don’t work.
Lani, that is one thing I see with agents that have a high turnover. They just don’t listen and try to work things out.
Melanie, yes it is true in life…in many venues. Thanks for commenting.
Matthew Rathbun
March 24, 2010 at 6:59 am
MIssy,
I think it is all about the Broker’s Culture and what they will allow. Our companies owner/Broker has no issue showing people the door who raise discontent or are so unproductive that they have time to sit and gossip.
I’ve sat in many companies and hung me license in a few where the mainstay was agents who sold nothing but hung around the first part of the day just to catchup on gossip.
Why do agents stay in environments like that?
Missy
March 24, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Matthew, I have no idea. Some I guess just need a social life. One of my friends when he first started in management at a pharmacy company, was given the lowest producing region in the U.S.
He came in and found they were taking 2 hr. lunches, 1/2 days on Fridays etc.
He got them in shape and in 9 months brought that region to number 2. The next year number one.
He had an excellent work ethic and expected no less from the people under him.
Needless to say he moved up in the company and became a 7 figure top executive.
John Coley
March 28, 2010 at 8:00 pm
So true. Plus, I think our profession, (at least for me) is so driven by having a good, positive attitude. It sounds sort of cheesy or cliche but the longer do this the more I am convinced I have to surround myself with people that contribute in positive ways. There’s more than enough negative vibes that come from the news or whatever – why associate with that inside your own office?