Hello Everyone, my name is Adam Kruse.
I am 26 years old, living in St. Louis Missouri, I am new to being a manager, and new to these forums, but I have been listening to their podcasts for about 2 months now.
I am a realtor, but in a very non traditional company, I have worked my way up to being the team leader, and lead manager, in only about 8 months. I think it is because I am dedicated to the company, and I do things that are helping the company directly, but maybe only helping myself indirectly. I love my job, and thats why I am so passionate about it.
As a manager, I had a few weeks of fumbling around, and having bad meetings, I love their podcast on thank you notes, and how to make a good agenda for the meeting. I am still digesting the one about creating a sense of urgency.
Thanks everyone!!
New to management, new to this forum
Welcome, Adam!
My younger son was born in Festus, and I spent a year living near there (you had to take a dirt road over the hills, through the woods, and my nearest neighbor was a cow...who lived 3 acres away). I have a couple of friends who still live closer to St. Louis proper.
I hope you get as much value from the forums as I have!
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Welcome to the MT forums, Adam. I enjoyed reading about all of your services on your site... must keep you very busy.
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Welcome aboard Adam. The forums truly are great. As a Realtor I imagine you would use hand-written thank you notes a lot.
I know a lot of Realtors. You have an interesting challenge. :wink:
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Agreed - Welcome Adam.
I know what Will is saying - my Father was a Realtor (Real Estate Agent over here) and it is a very tough gig. In Australia at least Real Estate has a very bad reputation and to do it right takes a lot of hard work and dedication. I didn't see much of my father growing up but he did provide well for us. I know time away from family is something he regrets now but that was a choise he made - He did become the national No 1. sales rep for a while and ran the No 1. franchise for a number of years.
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yes I love the thank you note podcast, it made having my assistant write my thank you notes so much easier. 4 sentences, 3 paragraphs. Genius!! Oh that brings me to a question, I am a male, and my assistant is female, is it really bad that she writes my thank you notes? I dictate them so they are still totally meeting all of the criteria, but the handwriting is female. do i have to fire her and get a new male assistant? just kidding, do I have to start writing them myself?
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I would write those personally. If I received it and knew it wasn't your writing, I wouldn't assume that you'd dictated it, either.
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Adam-
Welcome to Manager Tools forums! Glad you're with us.
And yes, I'd recommend you write the notes. After that, have someone else type them, and you sign them. Having someone else hand-write them is very ill-advised. It's transparently misleading.
It's a privilege to serve you.
Mark
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Well almost a year later, I am still here reading the amazing content. You have helped a lot of my friends who I recommend listen to different podcasts about recruiting, interviewing, etc. Thanks again guys
Re: New to management, new to this forum
Hey Adam - almost a year ago, this was your perspective:
[quote="FlatFeeKing"] I have worked my way up to being the team leader, and lead manager, in only about 8 months. I think it is because I am dedicated to the company, and I do things that are helping the company directly, but maybe only helping myself indirectly. I love my job, and thats why I am so passionate about it.
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A year later, what have you learned? How has your perspective changed?
-Hugh