Trust Account Simplified

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Trust Account Simplified CPD Course

The Property Practitioners Act No 22 of 2019 and the regulations were recently promulgated, changing the face of compliance with audits and accounting records.  As a business property practitioner, you must stay compliant to keep trading.  This course is designed to give you the basics of the Act.

We also help discover the criteria required to de-register your trust account and go through each step, giving you the required documentation to simplify your process.

In this course, you will receive

  • Training Manuals
  • Informative video
  • Add-On Resource material
  • Quiz
  • Certificate of Achievement

Buy this 1-week course, Trust Account Simplified.  Click the “Take this Course” button and get started!

Working Across Cultures

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Working Across Cultures Course

This sensitivity training course allows you to achieve two Continual Professional Development CPD points in the non-verifiable Personal Category.  Non-verifiable Continual Professional Development points are a regulated requirement for all principal and non-principal property practitioners.

Did you know that what you perceive about a culture actually says more about your own culture than it does about the other culture? In this course you will learn more about what culture is and how to understand different cultures. This will help you to gain insight on how to interact more effectively with people from those cultures.

The following topics will allow you a greater insight and an understanding on how to successfully use cultural differences to your advantage:

  • Communicating with people with a different cultural background.
  • To be successful in a multicultural business environment.
  • Adapting your persuasion techniques to cultural norms.
  • Communicating negative feedback across different cultures in a positive way.
  • Decision-making styles regarding cultural norms.
  • Handling Different Trust-Building Styles.
  • Handling Different Disagreement Styles.
  • Handling Differences in Scheduling Styles.

Buy this 1-week course, Working Across Cultures, which will help you gain insight and understanding on how different cultures perceive the workplace.  Click the “Take this Course” button and get started!

Motivating Your Team

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Motivating Your Team Course

This skill-enhancing course also allows you to achieve two Professional Continual Development CPD points in the non-verifiable Mentoring & Coaching category.

It’s no secret that motivation is critical to success. The challenge is that you can’t demand or manufacture motivation. No amount of “sticks”’ and “carrots” can force people to feel motivated. The most powerful motivation is intrinsic: It comes from within.

So, how do you tap into your team’s motivation? How do you light a fire under your employees’ feet—call upon their innermost needs, drives, and ambitions—and inspire them? In this course, you’ll learn strategies to motivate your team, followed by a final checklist of motivation do’s and don’ts.

We debunk the following three motivational myths in this course:

  • Myth: Money is the single biggest motivator.
  • Myth: Managers are responsible for employee motivation.
  • Myth: Fear is a powerful motivator.

Employee motivation has become a popular topic in team and business management studies. That’s because employee motivation directly impacts your business’s bottom line. For example, increasing employee motivation is known to:

  • Boost productivity.
  • Increase job satisfaction.
  • Reduce employee absenteeism.
  • Improve performance.
  • Promote a positive work culture.

Buy this 1-week course now and learn how to successfully motivate your team.

“A company’s employees are its greatest asset, and your people are your product.”-Sir Richard Branson.

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A Guide to Managing Remote Teams

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Navigating Team Dynamics Course

This skill-enhancing course also allows you to achieve two Professional Continual Development CPD points in the non-verifiable personal category.  You are supplied with training videos, reading material and short quizzes.

You will learn how to hire remote workers.  You will have access to a larger and more diverse pool of qualified candidates while reducing overhead costs. An excellent remote candidate will meet the minimum education and experience requirements and possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities to excel in the open position. But an exceptional remote candidate also will have the traits needed to succeed in a remote environment, including initiative and self-motivation, strong communication, independent problem-solving and time-management skills, and the ability to learn new technologies.

A few advantages of the remote office include:

  • World-class talent.
  • Increased diversity.
  • Improved productivity
  • Greater employee happiness.
  • Reduced overhead costs.

Buy this 1-week course, a Guide to Managing Remote Teams, which will help you strategise correctly to achieve a high outcome from remote staff members.   Click the “Take this Course” button and get started!

Becoming the Boss: A Guide for New Managers

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Becomming the Boss Course

Transitioning from your team’s peer to their manager can be tricky. Team dynamics will change—and there likely will be some growing pains. This course will help you navigate these challenges. In it, you’ll learn about common reactions to expect from former peers, followed by seven strategies to make the transition go as smoothly and painlessly as possible.

This skill-enhancing course also allows you to achieve two Professional Continual Development CPD points in the non-verifiable personal category.

The course covers the following topics:

  • A Manager’s Role
  • Individual Contributors vs Managers
  • First Steps to Take as a New Manager
  • How to thrive as a New Manager

Once you have completed the course, you will be able to:

  • Embrace your role as someone who supports, guides, and develops people.
  • Take ownership of big-picture items and delegate the rest.
  • Strive to be a fair and effective boss—not a buddy.
  • Leverage your team’s knowledge and strengths.
  • Be patient with yourself.

Buy this 1-week course, Becoming the Boss, and stand out.   Click the “Take this Course” button and get started!

Navigating Team Dynamics Course

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If you require Continual Development Points in the non-verifiable personal category, then this course is for you!  Once you have been found competent you may download either the Skill Enhancing Certificate of Completion or the CPD Certificate for 2 points in the above category.

A Guide to Navigating Team Dynamics Course

A Guide to Navigating Team Dynamics course is essential for any industry manager.  Workplace teams can—and should—be more than just the sum of their human parts. Beyond the skills and expertise each person has, it’s the way these individuals come together to tackle a project that can give it a special boost—or act as a shackle. The interplay of personalities, roles, work habits, management styles, and more can affect how teams get work done. These invisible factors, known as team dynamics, are the powerful forces that govern how people relate in executing their work tasks.

In this course, you’ll learn what team dynamics are and how they can influence decision-making and efficiency on your team. You’ll get primed on what shapes these invisible forces and how to recognise and manage these influences to set your team up for success. We’ll also run through some situations to help hone your identification and application skills so that you can better manage how your team works together.

Once you have completed the course, you will have increased your knowledge of the following topics:

Introduction to Team Dynamics and Why They Matter

Positive team dynamics are critical for organisational success. Here we discuss Trust; Connectedness; Leadership; Open Communication, and a Sense of Purpose.

Characteristics of High-Performing Teams

High-performing teams are rare. When they happen, it’s often by chance—a seemingly perfect mix of people comes together to form the perfect team. But with the right ingredients, you can create all-star teams such as these.

Common Roles in a Team

A big part of a successful potluck is that everyone brings something different to the table.

Understanding and Leveraging Different Work Styles

First, you’ll learn about four work styles and how to determine where people align. Then, you’ll learn how to leverage your team’s cognitive diversity and give each person what they need to excel.

Tips for Improving Team Dynamics

How can you, as a manager, enhance team cohesion? In this lesson, you’ll learn about the impact of team dynamics on performance, why teams experience negative dynamics, and how to overcome those hurdles.

Managing the Multigenerational Workplace

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to manage a multigenerational workplace. First, you’ll discover what makes each generation different and what problems arise from those differences. Then, you’ll find out how to overcome the challenges and bridge the generation gap.

Buy this 1-week course, A Guide to Navigating Team Dynamics.  Click the “Take this Course” button and get started!

A Quick Guide to Developing a Go-to-Market Strategy

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Developing a Go-to-Market Strategy Course in South Africa

A go-to-market strategy is a detailed plan for launching an offering.  The bonus is that you can use the Quick Guide to Developing a Go-to-Market Strategy course towards one non-verifiable Continual Professional Development point in the personal real estate category. This is only required by Principal or Non-Principal practitioners. To craft a winning go-to-market strategy, our course summarises the following key points.

This skill-enhancing course may also be used to achieve two CPD points in the non-verifiable Personal Category.  Non-verifiable Continual Professional Development points are a regulated requirement set by the Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority formally known as the Estate Agents Affairs Board, EAAB.

Who will buy it?

Here we help you to identify your target audience—including buyer persona details such as attitudes, motivations, and unsolved problems.

What’s for sale?

You must understand how to describe the product’s value proposition, its defining features and qualities, and how your product fits customers’ needs in a way that its competitors don’t.

What’s the marketing strategy?

You will be shown how to specify the channels, tactics, messaging, and pricing strategy you’ll use to market the product.

How will you sell it?

You must understand how to develop a plan for distributing the product and supporting customers through each step of the buyer’s journey.

How will you support ongoing success?

Most importantly, you must create a system to track performance, measure success, and provide ongoing customer support.

Buy this 1-week course, A Quick Guide to Developing a Go-to-Market Strategy.  Click the “Take this Course” button and get started!

PPRA Licencing CPD Course

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PPRA Licencing CPD Course

PPRA Licencing

Principal practitioners must understand the current licencing procedures so that their agency remains compliant.  This short course identifies the different types of registrations required by the industry and lists the steps required by the applicant.

PPRA Licencing Non-Verifiable CPD Course in the Personal Category

The Property Practitioners Act No 22 of 2019 (PPAct) is the law from 1st February 2022.  There are many benefits to this Act, especially relating to licencing.

  • Previously non-compliant practitioners are exempt from penalties for the first six months
  • The PPRA is obliged to issue fidelity fund certificates within thirty days of the application being made, as long as the application documents are presented as regulated and the applicant follows the steps provided in this course

The podcast presented by the Licencing Manager at the EAAB is supplied as part of the course material.

To buy this 10-day skill-enhancing PPRA Licencing CPD course, please click the “Take this Course” button and get started on your real estate journey!

POPIA CPD Course

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POPI Act Course

POPI Act

This CPD non-verifiable course is a must for you and your employees to understand the regulations contained within the POPI Act in just 10-days.  Not only do you receive this expert summary, but you also receive a draft POPI Manual and Forms which you can adapt to your business and 1 non-verfiable point in the Professional Category.

You are provided with learning material that summarises the Act defining what your business must adhere to and how.  The program is arranged so that all staff members will easily understand the basic concepts of the Act and obtain knowledge on how to apply different mechanisms specific to the business’ needs.

Besides obtaining critical legislated information, you may also complete this course to achieve two non-verifiable Continual Professional Development (CPD) points in the property industry.

To buy this 10-day POPIA CPD course, click “Take this Course” and follow the prompts.

Residential Lease Agreement CPD Course

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Residential Lease Agreement Course

Residential Lease Agreement

All property practitioners must understand how to construct a lease agreement to protect both the landlord and the tenant.  A good lease agreement will lessen the landlord’s risk should a tenant not vacate when required.

Learn why Airbnb short-term rentals confuse both the marketplace and Body Corporates and how to avoid such misconceptions.

Residential Lease Agreement: 2 Points in the Personal Category

This short online CPD course in the non-verifiable personal development category takes you past presenting a lease agreement; it is packed with expertise and discusses common mistakes made by stakeholder where all aspects of a contract are not fully apparent at the outset.  Some of the topics covered include:

  • Airbnb short term leases
  • Tenant evictions
  • Consumer Protection Act
  • Prevention of Illegal and Unlawful Evictions Act
  • Rental Housing Act

Please take this opportunity to listen to David Campbell explain the pitfalls that have come across his desk where landlords have not been adequately protected in a lease agreement.

This course is ideal for all full status and principal status property practitioners who would like to earn 2 CPD points in the non-verifiable personal category whilst using this time to gain invaluable knowledge.

To buy this 10-day Residential Lease Agreement CPD course, please click the “Take this Course” button and get started on your real estate journey!