The Enduring Advisory Firm - How to Serve Your Clients More Effectively and Operate More Efficiently

The Enduring Advisory Firm - How to Serve Your Clients More Effectively and Operate More Efficiently

von: Mark C. Tibergien, Kimberly G. Dellarocca

Wiley, 2016

ISBN: 9781119108818 , 208 Seiten

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The Enduring Advisory Firm - How to Serve Your Clients More Effectively and Operate More Efficiently


 

The Enduring Advisory Firm

3

Contents

9

Acknowledgments

11

Preface

13

Part I The State of the Advisory Business

17

CHAPTER 1 Key Business Trends

19

Assumptions

19

Advisors Are Reducing Their Fees

20

Young Employees Lack a Work Ethic

20

Robos Will Make It Difficult to Compete

21

The Profession Will Benefit from the Pending Transfer of Wealth

22

What Should You Consider?

23

Margin Compression

24

Growth for Mature Firms

25

An Oversupply of Clients, an Undersupply of Providers

25

Tarnished Reputation

26

Compliance Costs Are Rising

27

Consolidation Is Inevitable

28

What the Assumptions Mean for You

29

CHAPTER 2 What Business Are You In?

31

Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives

34

A Refresher

35

Where to Go from Here?

36

Zoom Out and Zoom In

37

Clients of the Future

40

Part II The Role of Demographics and the Ability to Grow

45

CHAPTER 3 A New Paradigm for Relating and Growing Relationships

47

Get to Know Your Ideal Client, Again

50

Seek First to Understand

52

CHAPTER 4 The Mature Client

57

Generation Smarts: Working with Mature Clients

59

Recognize Your Changing Role

60

Communicate with Sensitivity and Empathy

61

Change the Conversation

63

Train and Empower Your Sales Assistants to Look for Signs of Aging

63

Case Study: Connecting with Pre-Retirees and Retirees

65

CHAPTER 5 The Baby Boomers

71

Generation Smarts: Working with Baby Boomers

73

Invest in Building Relationships—the Old-Fashioned Way

75

Use Straight Talk

78

Be Helpful in New, Unexpected, and Highly Valued Ways

79

CHAPTER 6 The Generation X Client

85

Generation Smarts: Working with Gen X Clients

86

Help Them to Visualize Success

90

Begin with the End in Mind

91

CHAPTER 7 Millennials

99

Generation Smarts: Working with Millennial Clients

101

Don’t Let Them Downsize Their Dreams

104

Communicate with Integrity and Clearly to Build Trust

105

Embrace the Paradox

107

CHAPTER 8 Generation Z and Beyond

109

Generation Smarts: Working with Gen Z Clients

112

CHAPTER 9 Investing Women

115

Working with Female Clients

116

Combining Gender and Generation Smarts

116

Women Are More Than Wives and Widows

116

The Most Important Question

119

Help Her Understand and Define Risk

120

Help Her Find Her Purpose

122

What Advisors Can Do

125

Treat Her as an Individual, Not a Niche

125

Consider Offering New and Differentiated Services

127

Unique Planning Needs for Women

129

Part III Bringing Change to Your Practice

133

CHAPTER 10 Transforming from Practice to Business

135

But Are You Scalable?

138

Risky Business

142

The Setting

143

The Response

144

The Price of Independence

145

Why Does the Definition of Independence Matter?

147

Are You Conflict-Free?

148

CHAPTER 11 Culture Wars

151

Nature of the Work

157

Nature of the Worker

158

Nature of the Workplace

158

Act Like an Owner

159

Bullies on the Job

161

The Benefits of Reverse Mentorship

165

CHAPTER 12 A Vision and Leader for the Future

169

Vision: It Begins with Your Guiding Principles

170

Our Leadership Vision

171

A Vision for Your Business

175

Ability to Translate Vision into Action

178

Ownership and Accountability

181

Empathy

185

Index

189

EULA

199