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The Power of Practice Management: Best Practices for Building a Better Advisory Business

ISBN: 978-1-118-12117-7
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308 pages
February 2013
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Foreword ix

Introduction xi

PART I: BUSINESS STRATEGY AND PLANNING

CHAPTER 1 A Look at the Landscape 3

CHAPTER 2 A View into Top-Performing Firms 13

CHAPTER 3 New Thinking for New Results 23

CHAPTER 4 The Four Essential Disciplines 25

CHAPTER 5 Business Strategy and Planning 37

CHAPTER 6 Living the Vision 45

CHAPTER 7 Building a Business Blueprint 53

CHAPTER 8 Managing Business Performance 67

CHAPTER 9 Benchmarking: Are You Making Progress? 77

PART II: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 10 The Business Development Landscape 87

CHAPTER 11 Target Clients and Niche Markets 97

CHAPTER 12 Landing Your Brand 105

CHAPTER 13 The Elevator Speech 111

CHAPTER 14 A Marketing Plan 115

CHAPTER 15 Referrals: An Untapped Opportunity 127

CHAPTER 16 The Referral Management Process 139

CHAPTER 17 Unlocking Client Feedback 149

PART III: HARNESSING HUMAN CAPITAL

CHAPTER 18 The Value of Human Capital 157

CHAPTER 19 Making the Successful Hire 161

CHAPTER 20 Tapping into Training 171

CHAPTER 21 Job Descriptions and Performance Reviews 177

CHAPTER 22 Climbing the Ladder 187

CHAPTER 23 The Role and Value of Compensation Planning 193

CHAPTER 24 Components of Compensation 201

CHAPTER 25 Creating a Compensation Plan, Step by Step 215

CHAPTER 26 Owner Compensation 223

PART IV: OPTIMIZING OPERATIONS

CHAPTER 27 Operations Optimization 233

CHAPTER 28 Client-Facing Processes 245

CHAPTER 29 The Client Model 263

PART V: BUILDING AND REALIZING VALUE

CHAPTER 30 Preparing for the Future 279

CHAPTER 31 The State of the Industry 281

CHAPTER 32 External Sales 283

CHAPTER 33 Internal Succession 289

Notes 295

About the Author 297

About Genworth Financial Wealth Management, Inc. 299

Index 301

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