Program modules
The Leading Practices ProgramTM features three key modules.
- Client Experience Survey – to identify your practice’s strengths and weaknesses;
- Practice Benchmarking – to understand your practice’s relative position in the market; and
- Leading Practices Library – to inform action planning.
Program framework
Customer experience is the product of all interactions and touch-points with a business. Through extensive qualitative research, involving several top performing financial advice practices, Beddoes Institute has accurately identified the specific touch-points between financial advice practices and their clients that influence the customer experience. We call these ‘Customer Touch-Points’.
The ‘Customer Touch-Points’ cover key operational, sales and marketing elements within successful financial advice practices. These form the measurement dimensions in the Client Experience Survey, they are the categories used for Practice Benchmarking and they provide the structure for the Leading Practices Library.
Program delivery
The Leading Practices ProgramTM is delivered via a secure, self-service web portal giving you 24-hour access to:
- Your Client Experience Survey results and associated business diagnostics;
- Live benchmark data showing how your practice compares to others at any point in time;
- New content in our Leading Practices Library;
- Additional program modules, as needed;
- Online support and the answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs); and
- Relevant program documents and resource material.
The interactive web portal has been designed in consultation with ‘top’ adviser practices. It can be accessed by nominated users from your practice with training provided via online screen-casts. User manuals and technical help are also available.
A ‘Continuous Improvement Program’
- Use the Client Experience Survey and Practice Benchmarking to identify which areas of your business are in most urgent need of improvement.
- Use our Leading Practices Library to identify improvement initiatives that have been shown to work and develop an action plan.
- Allow 6-12 months for improvement initiatives to take effect.
- Re-run the Client Experience Survey and Practice Benchmarking to assess both the effectiveness of the improvement initiatives and the ongoing health of your business.
- Make use of the Leading Practices Library if/when new opportunities for business improvement are identified.
- Repeat the process every 12 months.