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AUSTIN, TEXAS (February 5, 2014)- Keller Williams Realty,
the largest real estate franchise in North America and one of the
fastest-growing real estate companies in the world, has been named the No. 2
training organization across all industries by Training Magazine. At an awards
ceremony in San Diego to honor the Training 125, Keller Williams was recognized
for the record growth, productivity and profitability gains that its training
and education programs fueled last year.
"We want to thank all of our coaches, course writers,
instructors and associates for embracing these training programs and delivering
extraordinary results," said Dianna Kokoszka, CEO of KW MAPS Coaching and
Keller Williams University.
Keller Williams was joined in the Top 5 by Jiffy Lube,
Capital BlueCross, CHG Healthcare Services, and Mohawk Industries, Inc.
Training Magazine, which features the Top 5 honorees in its January-February
2014 issue, commended Keller Williams for several programs and initiatives,
including:
BOLD (Business Objective: Life by Design)- a transformative
program that helps real estate professionals increase sales through the
relentless pursuit of leads and business-building activities. Over the course
of seven weeks, BOLD conditions agents with powerful mindset exercised,
language techniques and lead-generation activities. Participants are assigned
to accountability teams and challenged to push each other to achieve big
results. BOLD attracts real estate professionals from brokerages and brands
throughout the industry, many of whom sign up every time it is offered. Last
year, BOLD graduates increased their closed transactions by 50 percent and
their income by 114 percent compared with agents who did not take BOLD.
RSTLM (Recruit, Select, Train, Lead and Motivate) - a
comprehensive training course for finding, hiring, training and leading talent.
RSTLM is an intensive, four-day training program. Leaders use it to recruit and
retain talent. Agents use it to hire teams so they can grow and work
effectively. Leaders who have taken the series and use the models and systems
have shown a 63 percent increase in franchise office profitability compared
with other leaders, contributing to the record 95 percent market center
profitability Keller Williams offices achieved in 2013. Agents using RSTLM
reported a four-fold increase in income, from $50,000 to $212,000.
"We are incredibly honored by this distinction,"
CEO Mark Willis said. "We're an education-based, technology-driven
company. This award reaffirms our commitment to providing our associates with
the resources and training they need to grow their businesses."
"We are fortunate to have the best training programs
and the best training professionals in the real estate industry,"
President Mary Tennant said. "By focusing on education, we're helping our
95,000 associates build careers worth having, businesses worth owning and lives
worth living."
For more information about the Training 125, visit
www.trainingmag.com.
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About Keller Williams Realty, Inc.:
Keller Williams Realty, Inc. is the largest real estate
franchise company in North America, with approximately 700 offices and 95,000
associates in more than a dozen countries around the world. The company has
grown exponentially since the opening of the first Keller Williams Realty
office in 1983, and continues to cultivate an agent-centric, education-based,
technology-driven culture that rewards associates as stakeholders. The company
also provides specialized agents in luxury homes and commercial real estate
properties. For more information or to search for homes for sale visit Keller
Williams Realty online at (www.kw.com). For more information about KWWorldwide,
please visit kwworldwide.com.
