Challenging a Commercial Real Estate Team to Lift Performance
In commercial real estate brokerage, you will find challenges when it comes to every real estate team. The disciplines and business processes across sales, leasing, and property management will vary, and on that basis you need to know that every member of the team is implementing the necessary skills to serve the client base and improve the business.
Every brokerage principal or manager should be closely interacting with the client base to identify and determine any factors of underperformance or client concern. Invariably most clients suffering the effects of poor agency performance will tell others about their concerns before they tell the relevant agent or brokerage; over time they can do a lot of damage to the brokerage brand. It is common for a client to move on at the end of an agency term of appointment where the listing hasn’t been well serviced or communication with the client has been below par.
Moving to the Next Level?
Whilst you may spend a lot of time encouraging the agents in the brokerage team to improve personal skills and strengthen opportunities, are they really implementing the necessary skills and habits to move to the next level? The only way you will know that is through tracking results of each agent when it comes to the core factors of the business. Most particularly they are:
- The type of prospecting activities undertaken on an agent by the agent basis
- The amount of prospecting undertaken each day by each agent
- The conversions of meetings with new people as a direct result of prospecting
- The leads and opportunities that evolve from client meetings and prospect meetings
- The number of listings per agent on an open listing basis versus an exclusive listing basis
- The time on market for each exclusive listing
- The amount of commission generated per lease transaction and per sales transaction
- The number of new clients entered into the database by each agent on a weekly basis
- The accuracy of the database when it comes to client contact details and current information
- The number of clicks and hits that apply to listings placed on the Internet by each agent
- The way in which each agent will integrate social media to listing opportunities and marketing efforts
- The amount of vendor paid marketing funds converted on a weekly basis for current listings for each agent
- The listing refresh process and frequency that applies to current listings with each agent
- The feedback that each client may give when it comes to the services provided by each agent with the listing
So there are plenty of things to track here when it comes to identifying performance opportunities, as strengths, and weaknesses. The rules should apply across the brokerage and should delve into the activities of each agent. You will soon see and identify the agents that are under-performing, allowing you to take the necessary steps of adjustment in each case.
The commercial real estate industry can be highly rewarding in so many different ways when appropriate tasks and opportunities are seized in a timely way. Almost every element of success in the industry will be centred on the activities of individual agents. Encourage your people in the business team to do the right things in the right way and to make adjustments where necessary.
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