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!

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!

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!

Residential Sale Agreement CPD Course

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Residential Sale Agreement Course

Residential Sale Agreement

Once you have completed this 10-day CPD course, you will be able to read and compile a residential sale agreement and know what clauses are inserted to protect both the seller and the buyer.

Residential Sale Agreement: 2 Points in the Personal Category

This short online course takes you past just presenting a sale agreement; it is packed with expertise and discusses common mistakes made by stakeholders where aspects of a contract are not fully apparent at the outset.  Some of the topics covered include:

  • Sectional Title & Freehold
  • Deceased Estates
  • Purchasing on behalf of an entity to be formed
  • Alienation of Land cooling-off clause
  • Foreign resident
  • Agricultural land
  • Electronic signatures
  • Sale of buyers property

The Residential Sale Agreements course is ideal for gaining expert knowledge and satisfying your annual CPD quote in the non-verifiable Personal Category.

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

Commercial Sale & Lease Contracts CPD Course

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Commercial Sale & Lease Contracts CPD Course

2 CPD points in the Personal Development Category

Once you have completed this course, you will be able to read and compile a Commercial Sale & Lease Contract and know what clauses are inserted to protect both the seller and the buyer. The video is presented by renowned conveyancing and litigation attorneys, Meumann & White, property and commission litigation experts.

Commercial Sale & Lease Contracts

The course is presented in a 40-minute video by Meumann White Attorneys, C&I sale and lease agreements, and property litigation experts.  Once completed, you will have good knowledge of the C&I contractual industry.  Some of the topics covered include:

  • The differences between residential and commercial sales contracts
  • Business sale agreements
  • Purchasing a property through an entity
  • Tax benefits
  • Zero-rated transactions
  • Indemnification clauses
  • Business lease agreement

Are you needing to gain non-verifiable CPD points in the Personal category whilst practising commercial brokering? Why not choose this valuable course based on commercial sales and letting.

To buy this 30-day Commercial Sale & Lease Contracts CPD course, please click the “Take this Course” button and get started on your real estate journey!

Introduction to Property Law CPD Course

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Property Law in South Africa

Introduction to Property Law: 1 CPD point in the Personal Development Category

This 10-day course will take you through the basic understanding of what is required of the Property Practitioner in the field, and what knowledge he must have so that he can confidently guide both his buyers and sellers through the legalities of purchasing a property.

Course content:

This non-verifiable CPD online course is carefully explained so that any Property Practitioner entering the industry will be able to easily grasp the content and apply it to his daily interaction with his clients. It covers the following topics:

  • Immovable property
  • Title Deeds
  • Servitudes
  • Real Rights
  • Ownerships
  • Transfer

It further goes on to incorporate the usages of vacant land, freehold houses, sectional title apartments, group housing schemes, share block and retirement schemes as well as warehouses, retail and office parks.

There are many aspects of property law that a property practitioner must be aware of, such as permanent fixtures, expropriation, prescription, real rights, insolvency, taxes and so forth.  All of these and more form part of the valuable information in this course.

To buy this 10-day Non-Verifiable Introduction to Property Law CPD Course, please click the “Take this Course” button and get started on your CPD journey!

Successful Goal Setting CPD Course

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Successful Goal Setting: 1 CPD point in the Personal Category

Successful Goal Setting CPD Course

Successful Goal Setting CPD course for real estate agents in South Africa covers a topic relative to the property industry.  Without successful goals being set, your business is doomed.  In this competitive market it is imperative that you are a step ahead of the competition, and by knowing how to set your goals and achieve them, you are set for success.

Cost: R280

This online course includes a 37minute video by John Assaraf, Master Mind Builder as well as course material supplied by Harvard Business Review.  Once you feel you have a good understanding of the course material, you can complete the ten multiple choice questions online.  These will automatically be marked by the computer training program.  Once you have been found competent, PropAcademy will issue you with a certificate of competency which you must print and place on file for the EAAB CPD audit.

Once complete remember to access your EAAB My Portal, My CPD and update your PDP to show that you have completed this course.

Click the “Take this Course” button below to purchase this 10-day Successful Goal Setting course today!