MORRIS PLAINS, N.J., – Weichert Real Estate Affiliates, Inc., has
launched Management Dynamics, a consulting and support program designed to assist
Weichert affiliates in their business operations.
Management
Dynamics commits brokers to the same routines and systems that Weichert,
Realtors president and founder
“Weichert
offers a business format franchise similar to McDonalds and other extremely
successful and consistent businesses,” said Mark Hanna, vice president of business
development for Weichert Real Estate Affiliates. “Just as a fast-food chain
shares their ‘secret recipe’ with its franchisees, Weichert provides all the
directions you need to operate a brokerage. It’s just up to the broker to put
all the ingredients together.”
Through
Management Dynamics, Weichert Real Estate Affiliates (WREA) business
development consultants will conduct in depth business reviews with each
affiliate on a quarterly basis. In between, member services managers will
routinely follow up with each broker to answer questions, provide advice and
review their progress on action items from the business review meeting.
As part of
the program, each Weichert affiliated office will be evaluated weekly based on
a series of performance indicators. This will allow WREA to provide individual coaching
in areas of need to each broker and allow them to track their progress in these
efforts.
In addition
to coaching and support, training is a critical component of Management
Dynamics. WREA will offer management development training quarterly through its
existing regional broker council meetings. The company will also offer regular “PODS” Webinars
– that is targeted and interactive training for groups of brokers united by a
commonality such as geography, office size or another shared concern.
To further
assist management development for affiliates, WREA will expand the
management-related training at its annual convention and its yearly management
retreat.
The company will also expand its online training and resource
library on its intranet site, WeichertOne.com, and create a forum and blog
section to allow brokers to share information, discuss management-related
topics and network.
WREA, the
franchise arm of Weichert, Realtors®, launched its first franchised office in
January 2002 and currently serves more than 300 markets in 36 states.
Weichert has nearly 18,000 sales
associates in more than 500 company-owned and franchised sales offices in key
markets throughout the
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