Benchmark Business Group

Team Building

Financial Services Insights on team building topics for Financial Service Advisors, Sales Associates and Service Associates.  Will include topics such as Delegating, Handling Employee Issues, etc.

Stop the Revolving Door: Why Your Financial Services Training is Failing New Hires

Training in the financial services industry can be a minefield. Too often, well-intentioned leaders fall into two unproductive traps that lead to high turnover, low productivity, and a frustrating hiring cycle. These two pitfalls make onboarding a new team member an unpleasant and costly experience. Are you guilty of either...
Read More about Stop the Revolving Door: Why Your Financial Services Training is Failing New Hires

Employee Clarity = Success

Dwight D. Eisenhower once famously said: "You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership." For financial service professionals, fostering an environment of success is a cornerstone of effective leadership. In our extensive engagements with financial service businesses, a common grievance surfaces: the challenge...
Read More about Employee Clarity = Success

Invest In Your Team

In many financial service agencies, there’s a belief that the office must be open M-F and often from 8 AM to 5 PM. This makes it difficult to allow the entire team to meet and/or train together. Often training is held in moments that can be scraped together in between...
Read More about Invest In Your Team

Team Potential

Is your team reaching its fullest potential? Often when we ask this question, we’re met with some reluctance to answer; and even defensive answers. We hear clarifications such as my team really cares about our clients, or even, they work hard. We understand. The financial services industry can be very...
Read More about Team Potential

Making Your Team Better

Every agency has its own language. Words and phrases that only you and your team use with each other; never outside the office or around a client. This language develops and evolves over time. Your language might be shaped by professional experience, for instance you might choose to have your...
Read More about Making Your Team Better

Making Time for Practice

If you were coaching a MLB team in the World Series, would you ever ask your team to show up without practicing first? Chances are you answered with a strong no. In the world of sports, game day is a very small portion of how time is spent. The day-to-day...
Read More about Making Time for Practice

The Best Way to Reward Your Team

Financial services businesses often struggle to compete with salaries or benefits that other businesses provide. But, they also want to recruit, reward and retain top talent. So how does a small financial services business compete to make a compelling offer and a workplace that is hard to leave? There are...
Read More about The Best Way to Reward Your Team
Previous
of 2
Showing 1-10 of 12
© 2025 Benchmark Business Group. All rights reserved.