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Registered Rep. February 16, 2012 Matt Oechsli	Improving Communication Within a Team Invest the time and resources to have every full-time member of your team assessed and then work to help everyone use this information so they recognize their personal style.
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On Wall Street January 1, 2011 Lee Conrad	Crossing From The Ivory Tower To The Office Tower Knowing what an investor wants and how his or her feelings color decision-making is becoming more crucial in the increasingly competitive world of attracting and retaining high-net-worth clients.
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Registered Rep. March 30, 2012 Anne Field	Human Behavior A discipline combining economics and psychology, behavioral finance turns one basic tenet of economic theory -- that people make rational decisions when given the right information -- on its head.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2004 Anne Field	The Great Divorce Handled right, divorces can be a new positive for the advisor: In most of the cases one advisor has encountered, she's ended up keeping both exes in the fold after the split-up.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2004 David A. Gaffen	Clean Machines Not all of these Top 50 Advisors have spotless records, but their ability to build such huge practices speaks to how astute they are in avoiding the sorts of complaints that can bring an advisory to its knees.
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Financial Advisor December 2006 Lewis Altfest	Behavioral Financial Planning Behavioral financial planning is not so much an alternative way of looking at personal financial planning as it is a practical supplement to it. Knowing what motivates people and finding ways of improving results is what behavioral planning is all about.
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CIO July 15, 2003 Meridith Levinson	To Know Them Is to Lead Them As a new leader, the more quickly you can understand your colleagues and your staff, the more quickly you can become a productive and efficient leader.
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Fast Company November 2004 Alison Overholt	Personality Tests: Back With a Vengeance What if you were asked to take one of these tests and then had your performance, career possibilities, and personality evaluated on the results? Here's what you need to know before you pick up a pencil.
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On Wall Street March 1, 2013 Ken Haman	The Secret to Team Harmony In my role as a coach to financial advisors and wholesalers, one of my goals is to help team leaders across all the major channels understand how to build better and more efficient teams. Fair distribution of awards, not personality mix, leads to success.
Financial Advisor April 2004 Sydney LeBlanc	What Have You Done For Me Lately? Are advisor marketing tools and business development what they should be?
Inc. August 2006 Stephanie Clifford	The New Science of Hiring Care to dramatically enhance your chance of finding great employees? Trade in your gut instincts for a systematic approach to interviewing, testing, and evaluating job candidates.
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Registered Rep. February 20, 2004	Extinct?: February's Cover Story Conferences were held to instruct reps in working as portfolio managers, and, in general, the improved technology made managing portfolios---and thus serving clients---a lot easier.
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Registered Rep. October 1, 2004 Will Leitch	The Rep's Ugly Friend As the industry continues its inexorable march toward "wealth management," advisors have had to add new tools to their workbenches. Among all of them, reps seem to have the most trouble getting comfortable with life insurance.
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Registered Rep. May 1, 2004 David A. Gaffen	Mother Merrill's Extreme Makeover A 12-year veteran of Merrill Lynch has noticed a pronounced improvement over the years in the way clients perceive him and his colleagues.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Grove & Prince	Theory to Practice For many advisors, the evolution to wealth manager remains a matter of theory, not practice. Sure, they're calling themselves wealth managers, but they're still behaving like financial advisors.
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