Virtual Workshops for Team Development

Workshops are designed to educate, enhance skills, and foster team alignment. Each session incorporates breakout discussions for in-depth content exploration, decision-making, and actionable plans at a time when the topics are most relevant for immediate execution on learnings. Participation covers all workshop materials as well as 1 follow-through session for questions and to finalize implementation. To maximize benefits, we recommend full team participation from a single location. If the scheduled time isn’t convenient, a dedicated session tailored to your team is also an option.

Talent Acquisition

Building Effective Campus Strategies

Empire Growth Partners will guide your team in crafting and implementing a campus development strategy aimed at boosting your presence, establishing and nurturing new Centers of Influence (COI) relationships, and strengthening existing ones to generate valuable campus leads. This workshop offers dedicated time to formulate a campus development plan for the upcoming academic year and initiate its execution. Topics include:

  • Segmenting or Re-segmenting Campuses
  • Assessment of Campus Database
  • Evaluation of Campus Source Effectiveness
  • Analysis of Previous Academic Year Events for Continuation or Adjustment
  • Identifying Opportunities and Crafting an Execution Strategy
Why prioritize this workshop in June?
Peak campus recruiting season has concluded, allowing for a comprehensive review of accurate data. By establishing a clear campus plan of action in advance of the new school year, it minimizes the workload once the academic year begins.

Building Effective Lead Generation Strategies:

Empire Growth Partners will guide teams through the process of crafting effective lead generation strategies to support their organization’s contract and recruiting activity goals. We will help teams develop targeted approaches that include internal prospecting, leveraging online sourcing tools, building strong community connections, and hosting impactful events. Attendees will leave with a clear framework for identifying and engaging potential leads, ensuring a steady pipeline of prospects aligned with organizational growth objectives. Whether you’re looking to refine existing strategies or implement new ones, this workshop equips your team with the tools and insights needed to drive consistent recruiting success. 

Why prioritize this workshop in October?
Developing lead generation strategies in the fall, ensures a team enters the new year with a clear plan and momentum already in place. It is the perfect time to assess current approaches, refine tactics, and implement new strategies allowing teams to stay ahead of deadlines, fill their pipeline early, and avoid the stress of last-minute planning.

Optimizing Your Internship Selection Process

Empire Growth Partners will guide your team through our recommended internship selection process, covering each of its three stages. Gain valuable insights into the systems and procedures needed to effectively engage with candidates throughout the process. This workshop allocates time for the team to determine who will be facilitating each step, outline their execution approach, and delve into the necessary content and materials for implementation.

Why prioritize this workshop in November?
The end of a calendar year is a great time to fine-tune your selection process strategies before the commencement of a new year. By adjusting strategies and materials beforehand, your team will approach the new calendar year with confidence in a system to select candidates.

Optimizing Your Full-Time Selection Process

Empire Growth Partners will guide your team through our recommended full-time selection process. Gain valuable insights into the systems and procedures needed to effectively engage with candidates throughout the process. This workshop allocates time for the team to determine who will be facilitating each step, outline their execution approach, and delve into the necessary content and materials for implementation.

Why prioritize this workshop in November?
The end of a calendar year is a great time to fine-tune your selection process strategies before the commencement of a new year. By adjusting strategies and materials beforehand, your team will approach the new calendar year with confidence in a system to select candidates.

Training and Development

Designing a Captivating Full-Time Onboarding Experience.

Empire Growth Partners will lead your team in implementing a full-time onboarding process aimed at increasing offer accept to contract ratios and ensuring new Financial Representatives are well-prepared for a fast start. Within the workshop, specific time will be set aside for the team to define roles and responsibilities for each stage, ensuring clarity among all members. Key areas covered include:

  • Clear communication of onboarding expectations prior to extending an offer.
  • Timely completion of contracting and licensing procedures.
  • Onboarding Business Fundamental tasks such as Market Development and learning language.
  • Hosting a Readiness Workshop prior to Financial Planning Academy (FPA).
Why prioritize this workshop in February?
Participating in this workshop early in the calendar year provides your team with the ability to impact calendar year offer accept to contract results.

Designing a Captivating Internship Onboarding Experience

Empire Growth Partners will lead your team in implementing an internship onboarding process aimed at increasing offer accept to contract ratios and ensuring interns are well-prepared for a fast start. Within the workshop, specific time will be set aside for the team to define roles and responsibilities for each stage, ensuring clarity among all members. Key areas covered include:

  • Clear communication of onboarding expectations prior to extending an offer.
  • Timely completion of contracting and licensing procedures.
  • Onboarding Business Fundamental tasks such as Market Development and learning language.
  • Hosting a Readiness Workshop prior to Introductory Financial Planning Academy (IFPA).
Why prioritize this workshop in February?
Participating in this workshop early in the calendar year provides your team with the time needed to integrate processes for the summer Introductory Financial Planning Academy (IFPA) class that tends to draw the highest number of candidates.

Crafting Engaging and Transformative Internship Development Experiences

Empire Growth Partners leads you through a meticulous dive into the structure, timeline, and resources of our highly recommended 'Introductory Financial Planning Academy' (IFPA) and weekly development curriculum. This comprehensive experience helps you craft, execute, and evaluate a successful training and development program. Whether you're a seasoned trainer, educator, or organizational leader, this workshop equips you with practical guidance and tools to ensure your training initiatives are effective and impactful, considering the best ways people learn and retain knowledge.

The primary objective is to establish and execute an experiential learning environment that not only imparts knowledge but also instills profound confidence within your learners. This unique offering includes a flexible and fully customizable 5-day schedule, designed to help your interns embark on a journey of rapid and sustained growth.

Why prioritize this workshop in March?
Determining an IFPA schedule and weekly development curriculum before May allows teams to get ahead by building a structured, impactful training program before interns arrive. By planning early, coordination logistics are taken care of well in advance, giving facilitators ample time to prepare content and refine delivery. Calendar invites can also be sent ahead of time, ensuring interns know exactly where they need to be and when, creating a seamless and organized experience that fosters confidence and engagement from day one.

Beyond the Summer: Strategies for Sustained Intern Engagement and Productivity

Empire Growth Partners leads this workshop to help internship teams discover the key to setting your internship program apart from the rest. We will guide your team through a 5-step process designed to prepare interns for a seamless transition from the summer to the fall. You'll leave with a comprehensive Quarterly Development Training Plan that ensures your interns remain active, engaged, and highly productive during their fall Internship experience.

Why prioritize this workshop in April?
Internship teams create a solid plan before the summer rush, ensuring a smooth transition for interns back to school in the fall without scrambling to coordinate during their busiest months. With summer packed full of activities and responsibilities, having a structured approach in place ahead of time saves valuable time and energy.

Full-Time Experience

Create a Third Full-Time Growth Funnel with the Financial Advisor Development Program (FADP)

Empire Growth Partners will lead your team in discussing the significance of the Financial Advisor Development Program (FADP) for graduating seniors and its potential as a powerful growth model for your office. (Formerly known as the Post Graduate Program). This session will focus on the selection process for FADP candidates including engaging language as well as the onboarding, training, and development structures for participants of your FADP.

This workshop allocates time for the team to outline their execution strategy and review the necessary content and materials for implementation.

Why prioritize this workshop in September?
Most students graduate in May and December. As seniors begin their search for opportunities in the months leading up to graduation, it is important for your team to have confidence in their ability to select, onboard, train, and develop these candidates as the academic year begins. This involves having the appropriate materials and resources, along with a clear delineation of responsibilities for each step.

Cultivating Conviction in Your Internship Conversion Process to Impact Full-Time Results

Empire Growth Partners will guide your team through our recommended two-part conversion process. This process is tailored to enhance intern awareness of the full-time career opportunity, enable your team to make informed decisions regarding an offer, and establish a robust roadmap for a seamless transition from the internship into the full-time career for those who convert. Teams will have the opportunity to discuss how to conduct each step, determine their execution strategy, and explore the essential content and materials for implementation.

Why prioritize this workshop in October?
The majority of interns graduate in May or December. Attending this workshop in the fall will facilitate the implementation of processes aligned with these two key timeframes.

Developing Leaders

Elevate Your Training Skills

Empire Growth Partners will lead an interactive session offering insight into six distinct learning styles and will deliver a straightforward yet powerful strategy to promptly elevate your training environment. Participants will receive a range of concepts for establishing a more impactful and engaging setting appealing to a variety of learners.

Why prioritize this workshop in March?
The summer months typically see the highest attendance for both internship and full-time training classes. By equipping trainers in advance, they will have the time needed to fine-tune the sessions they will lead and implement any necessary adjustments.

Activity Coaching Techniques for Success

Empire Growth Partners will lead an interactive workshop designed to empower and boost the confidence of activity coaches. We will provide comprehensive training, execution strategies, and actionable techniques tailored for full-time advisors' or interns' success.

Key Workshop Highlights:

  • Education: Gain insights into the Activity Coach's role, understand the Granum Business Model, and leverage the New Client Acquisition Chart. Discussion will be had on how the Granum system and New Client Acquisition Chart differs for interns.
  • Execution: Learn how to conduct effective Activity Coaching Meetings, build trust as a coach, and differentiate between explicit and implicit expectations.
  • Implementation: Put your knowledge into practice through scenario-based role-play, emphasize the importance of "Inspect What is Expected," and explore a range of valuable tools and resources.
Why prioritize this workshop in April?
As summer approaches, teams begin gearing up for their interns' development. Prioritizing the enhancement of activity coaching skills in your leadership team and equipping them with effective techniques before the arrival of summer interns will better prepare your team and boost their confidence in guiding interns to achieve the activity levels required for success.

Systems, Processes, and Team Effectiveness

Create Your Vision, Shape Your Future

Empire Growth Partners will empower leaders and team members to collaboratively shape the future of the organization. Through guided discussions and expert facilitation, participants will articulate a shared vision, set strategic priorities, and align on a clear path forward. Together, they will co-create a compelling vision that inspires and unites the entire organization, culminating in a strategic action plan that turns this vision into reality.

Why prioritize this workshop any time of the year?
Creating your organization's vision alongside your team ensures alignment on a unified future direction. It fosters diverse perspectives, increases buy-in, and enhances a collaborative focus toward achieving long-term strategic goals. 

Building Role Clarity Using the 4Rs Framework

Empire Growth Partners will enable leaders to meticulously design and develop role outlines for team members, utilizing the 4Rs framework (role, responsibilities, results, and remuneration). We provide expert guidance on critical talent acquisition and development tasks essential for organizational success, along with sample role descriptions. During this workshop, leaders will collaborate to ensure alignment across roles, culminating in a strategic action plan for delivering new role descriptions to team members.

Why prioritize this workshop any time of the year?
Prioritizing a role clarity Workshop empowers leaders to optimize team performance, enhance communication, and align organizational efforts toward achieving strategic objectives.

Annual Internship Recruiting Strategy Summit

Empire Growth Partners will provide education, guidance, and dedicated breakout sessions to empower and alignment your team in developing practical and attainable goals and strategies focused on conversions, contracts, recruiting and activities. In preparation for the Annual Internship Recruiting Strategy Summit, your team will receive directions on gathering data and discussion prompts for assessing previous years' internship outcomes. These insights will be thoroughly discussed and considered when crafting goals and strategies for the upcoming year at the Summit.

Why prioritize the Summit in August?
Establishing annual goals well in advance of the new year empowers your team to take a proactive stance in shaping recruitment efforts and initiating strategic plans. Given that the recruiting cycle and onboarding process often extend over several months before a contract is achieved, it underscores the significance of your recruiting team's early grasp of essential front-end activities such as leads, initials, and in-depths, which will begin the year prior.

Annual Full-Time Recruiting Strategy Summit

Empire Growth Partners will provide education, guidance, and dedicated breakout sessions to empower and align your team in developing practical and attainable goals and strategies focused on full-time contracts and recruiting activities. In preparation for the Annual Full-Time Recruiting Strategy Summit, your team will receive directions on gathering data and discussion prompts for assessing previous years' full-time recruiting outcomes. These insights will be thoroughly discussed and considered when crafting goals and strategies for the upcoming year at the Summit.

Why prioritize the Summit in August?
Establishing annual goals well in advance of the new year empowers your team to take a proactive stance in shaping recruitment efforts and initiating strategic plans. Given that the recruiting cycle and onboarding process often extend over several months before a contract is achieved, it underscores the significance of your recruiting team's early grasp of essential front-end activities such as leads, initials, and in-depths, which will begin the year prior.

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