Adviser Edge 2014 presentation on the things you need to know and do in order to successfully move online engagement, or lead generation, successfully offline into the real world to generate actual clients.
2. In this session….
Strangers are strange…why do they do what
they do?
Dating for mating….how can we arouse interest
Getting “Lucky”….using the Casanova Strategy
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The 4 Processing Styles (Honey & Mumford 1985)
Let me think more
about it, I need to
understand all angles
before I try it.
If this was
combined with
that, it could really
fly!
Prove it works,
then I’ll do it
right away
Sounds good,
I’ll do it!
Activist
Theorist
Reflector
Pragmatist
Time
Speed
Information
Evidence
11. Taking it offline: Establishing Common
Understanding
• Common Problems lead to common
understanding.
• Common Problems are most powerful in
the 3rd
Person Perspective (‘them”, “they”)
• 3rd
Person provides “distance”, and
negates argumentative or challenging
conversation
• Your opposite chooses to engage when
ready, without revealing weaknesses
• You establish empathy and understanding
• Yet….it is still personally relevant
COMMON PROBLEMSTORIES FORMULA
13. YouNEED:
Collaborative Thinking + 4 Processing Styles +
Engagement Process + Relationship Basics +
Common Problem Stories + Social Skills
Now we Baby!Cha
Editor's Notes
Understand why people behave the way they do helps us convert Mrs Right into Mrs Right Now
Need to understand why Mrs Right runs away to begin with
AMYGDALA: the bit of the brain at the top of your back at the bottom of your head
The part of the brain that processes quick thinking in times of potential danger
Triggers fight or flight responses and other conditioned, or coded behaviours
The POINT? We all have one, and all clients have coded behaviour that we have to avoid triggering
When fight or flight is insufficient, we learned to manipulate others. Argumentative behaviour designed to achieve the outcome we want.
In response, others developed coded behaviour – recognizing signals we developed rapid response mechanisms to negate the manipulation.
A first step in avoiding coded behaviour is to use collaborative thinking….get everyone looking at the same side of the problems, and then everyone moving on to look at the other sides together
Part of the objective is to create Top Of Mind Awareness – have them thinking of you first. They don’t do that from one contact. Demonstrate persistence, patience, knowledge, value, helpfulness…..draw them to you at the time of their choosing, and at the time of their greatest need.
TRUST: a firm belief that a person or thing can be relied upon
CONFIDENCE: firm trust…a state of mutual respect….freedom from apprehension….assured expectations
UNDERSTANDING: confidence from defined expectations and knowing each others objectives & positions
COMMON OBJECTIVES: do not have to be identical, but there has to be common overlap – a win-win.
Day 1 as a Part 3 Submariner…..Trust….Confidence…..Understanding…..Common Objectives
EXAMPLE: Recent regulation changes have come thick and fast for financial advisers.
There is so much money involved in super and savings these days in Australia that politicians and the vested interests see it as an easy win with the electorate to be forever tampering with the system and being seen to take actions to protect customers – almost regardless of whether the actions they take prevent real problems or not.
The impact on financial advisers is disproportionately large, in that many many advisers are finding that they are having to push up prices and fees for the very people they are trying to help and protect, and that is making advice for many Australians simply unaffordable. The advisers are having to put fees up because costs of meeting the regulatory changes are rising so fast, so the effect is that all the good intentions create pricing pressure that actually prevents customers getting great advice.