Real Estate Training and Education of Agents

For decades real estate brokers have always had three challenges in common - More Productivity, Easier Recruiting and Boosting Retention.  Well it seems that things have not changed a lot over the years, as similar issues were spotlighted in a recent survey undertaken by RealSure, Inc.

The survey drew responses from more than 500 real estate professionals who stated that  “Improving Market Share” (84.8%) was ranked as the number one challenge by brokers for 2008, followed by “Keeping abreast of New Real Estate Models” (80.2%) and “Investing in better Agent Training” (79.7%).

In today’s ever changing real estate landscape these management issues need to be tackled head on, as a declining market does not have room for mediocrity. 2008 will create either the opportunity for real estate brokers to expand their team and thus your market share or see it slip away as sales volumes and home prices do the same.

Due to the enormity and increasing specialization of real estate education and training, the huge amount of different courses, designations and the individual needs of agents, it has been expensive and impractical for most brokers to offer a complete career enhancement solution for all their agents. Offering specific in-house training solutions, even certain CE approved courses, can and should be handled by brokerage companies themselves.  But when it comes to offering a complete and comprehensive library of skills based classes, nationally recognized designations and hundreds of webinars, success modules, counseling calls and online self mentoring programs, the solution is best found with companies that concentrate on offering these types of services,

Created in 1995, the industry’s leading career development company the RealtyU Group, has over the last 12 months combined and integrated a large number of their existing educational products and created a turn-key, low-cost career solution – eUniversity - for real estate companies.

 According to Bill Shue, President of the RealtyU Group, “eUniversity" was created as an economical way for brokers to get a privately-branded solution for their company, which has comprehensive training for every agent, on-going education resources, business planning and accountability systems, career enrichment paths, essential skills courses and much, much more.” It is the most wide-ranging real estate library of eLearning available today with over 148 Success Modules,  providing precise instruction on how to reproduce a top-producing agent’s unique strategy,  over 152 Tele-Seminars; interviews with top producing real estate professionals who share their secrets to success and dozens of new courses and classes being added each quarter.

 “We have assembled over 200 top producing real estate agents nationwide to be the faculty for eUniversity,” says Shue.  “With something for every agent, brokers can now partner with our mentors to train, teach and motivate their agents with proven strategies that get results.  Every agent gets a personalized log-in that provides access to valuable tools, resources and knowledge, which will improve their career, skills and productivity.”

These elements are just a portion of the high-powered material made available for brokers to provide their agents.  There are also skills courses, licensing, continuing education and designation courses, productivity whitepapers and CreateAPlan, the industry’s leading comprehensive business planning and productivity tool.

To learn more about having your own online real estate university for your agents and what it can do to turbo charge your agents and increase productivity across the board, visit www.REeUniversity.com.