Being a good financial planner is not just about having the knowledge and information to direct clients on how to best achieve their goals and financial success.
Ultimately, most would agree that the true measure of success is to look at how effective the planner is in actually helping clients achieve those goals; in other words, does the client actually have an improved path to success because of the planner's involvement. In turn, this means that the planner's true success hinges not only upon having the right advice, but also depends upon the client actually implementing that advice, and the planner's ability help those clients make the required changes!
There's just one problem: it turns out that telling people what to do is actually a terrible way to get them to do it!Read More...