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Team IQ: Helping advisors run successful practices

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Team IQ | Grow and build your practice

Foster team success with tools to enhance group dynamics, practice management and accountability.

Grow and build your practice

In partnership with Team Edge Consulting, we offer tools and resources to help your practice and your team drive growth, develop efficiencies, and deliver a world-class client experience.

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Personalized Practice Check-up

Personalized Practice Check-up

Team Suite for Wealth Advisor Teams

Team Suite for Wealth Advisor Teams

Becoming Irreplaceable in Your Clients’ Lives

Becoming Irreplaceable in Your Clients’ Lives

Best Practices Suite Overview

Best Practices Suite Overview

Resources to help drive practice management initiatives

Resources to help drive practice management initiatives

OG Advisor – focusing on organic growth

OG Advisor – focusing on organic growth

Individual consulting session

  • Virtual 1:1 coaching sessions to focus on and optimize specific elements of your practice or your team
  • Additional accountability discussions are available to help you achieve your priorities

Workshops or presentations

  • A full suite of presentations, ranging from Best Practices to deep dives into specific elements of a highly productive Wealth Advisory practice
  • While all programs are customizable, we also offer a “Meeting in a Box” where DWS takes care of all logistics, including selecting a venue, setting up the meeting, developing the invitations, providing registration links, and providing the speaker & content
 

Best practice series

Ideas and guidelines to become more efficient and impactful when working with clients.

Team collaboration

Access your team’s full intellectual capital.

 

Market volatility strategy

Make sharp market fluctuations a contact opportunity.

 

Client family tree

Expand opportunities and increase the likelihood of retaining assets.

 

Upgrade the client review

Reinforce your value with a forward-looking, goals-based discussion.

 

At-risk clients

Create a team approach to asset retention.

 

Lifetime values

Help your clients memorialize their legacy, values and priorities.

 

The client office experience

Demonstrate your standards of care and attention to detail.

 

Personalizing communications

Cement relationships by letting clients know about you and your team.

 

Team charity commitment

Build cohesion and a greater sense of purpose.

 

Team leader/team member lunches

Stay connected. Consistently.

 

Team offsite meetings

Enhance your strategic planning, execution and team dynamics.

 

The wealth management checklist

Demonstrate what you have provided and will provide in the future.

 

About John Cianciulli, President, Team Edge Consulting

Author of the book, The Team Edge, John Cianciulli has over 25 years of industry experience including roles as a financial advisor, branch manager and Director of Team Development at Morgan Stanley and predecessor firms.

As President of Team Edge Consulting, John provides keynote presentation and leads dynamic and impactful workshops on key element of successful financial advisory teams and practices. He has personally coached many of the industry’s top-producing advisors and teams, including advisors in Barron’s Top 100.

John has spoken at many industry conferences, including Barron’s Top Advisors Summit and Barron’s Top Advisory Team Summit.

 

DWS is not affiliated with Team Edge Consulting

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Financial professionals, please call (800) 621-1148 to request a Team Edge session or ask about any of our Value-add Multipliers.
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