Team Leader Certification Bundle

Find out if working in a Team is right for you when you take the "I to We: Building and Working as a Team" course from C.A.R. Education. Working in a team is more than just identifying Buyer or Seller agents and an assistant.  You have to know the ropes - how to put a listing into the MLS, whose name is used; how to determine who owns a listing when one agent brings in a lead. Learn the best practices of successful teams, the roles of each team member and how to find your niche, plus how to open your market to a new target audience.

How you will benefit from taking this course:

• Evaluate if a Team is right for you
• Understand the roles of the members of a Team
• Identify what makes a Team work well
• Understand the benefits of both 2-person and larger teams
• Learn the variation of compensation as a team member
• Develop an understanding of how an individual contributor may find the right fit on a team
• Explore some of the challenges that members on a team face
• Learn the Best Practices of successful Teams in Real Estate
• Identify legal risks and benefits to working on a team.

ATTENTION CAR MEMBERS: You can receive this course for 50% off its regular price by using your membership benefits at the California Association of REALTORS® website! Visit this course at the CAR Education Online Store for more details.

In order to have a successful team, you first need to have an effective team leader. Teams 2.0 - The Team Leader is intended to provide the licensee with a general working knowledge of running an efficient and effective team. You will learn the role of a team leader and how to develop a positive culture that fosters team growth.

To have a successful team, you first need to have an effective team leader! In the research we have done throughout the state in evaluating successful teams there have been specific traits that are a trend with successful team leaders along with team leaders understanding that they have a specific role they need to play as the Team Leader.

Your effective leadership will create an effective team involved in more productive activities in specific roles. This Team Leader course will provide you with the knowledge to use your leadership and management skills to create a successful team in your real estate business.

Course Objectives

• Understand the role of a team leader and what characteristics and traits the most effective team leaders have.
• How to create a culture that fosters team growth and a positive team environment.
• Understand the importance of having clear roles within the team.
• How to protect your bottom line to ensure that you are running a profitable team.

Course Content

This is a visual and interactive course designed to engage the senses and maximize your learning experience. You can expect to experience the content with more than just reading, but with scenarios that allow you to practice what you have learned. In addition, we can provide more traditional study materials in the resource section in the review chapter.

ATTENTION CAR MEMBERS: You can receive this course for 50% off its regular price by using your membership benefits at the California Association of REALTORS® website! Visit this course at the CAR Education Online Store for more details.

This course will go over the difference between employees and independent contractors along with situations that brokerages may be subject to employment laws, such as assistants and team relationship. The course then discusses the best practices, prohibited practices and other aspects of the interviewing and hiring processes.

How you will benefit from this course:

• Gain a broad understanding of the legal framework governing the employment relationship in California
• Describe rules and regulations governing employers with respect to compliance with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and similar California laws regarding minimum wage, rest periods, overtime, and paychecks
• Understand the several types of employee benefit plans and related legal compliance
• Outline other California laws and regulations governing employers
• Learn the various leave laws such as the FMLA, CFRA, PDL, and ADA, and how they interrelate and “play” together
• Describe insurance requirements applicable to employers
• Understand what actions and relationships can create an employer-employee relationship, and compare those to an independent contractor relationship
• Know how to appropriately document various aspects of the employment relationship, including the hiring process, personnel files, pay stubs, etc.
• Understand the payroll process and requirements
• Know how to spot potential legal issues and pitfalls relating to the employment relationship

ATTENTION CAR MEMBERS: You can receive this course for 50% off its regular price by using your membership benefits at the California Association of REALTORS® website! Visit this course at the CAR Education Online Store for more details.

Too many agents and brokers manage their relationships and their transactions by the seat of their pants. These methods are increasingly impractical and the result is far more agents struggling to survive and more clients receiving subpar service and representation.

In this exciting three (3) hour course you'll explore the nature of the changes in our business, our client's expectations and the customer relationship building technology that has transformed so many aspects of our lives. Learn from an expert who built a thriving business with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software and can make sure you walk away with solid tasks and ideas you can implement immediately to improve your bottom line.

How you benefit from taking this course:

• Have ideas on how to encourage CRM use
• Have specific ideas on how to organize data
• Have specific ideas on how to leverage the data
• Receive actionable tips and best practices on effective lead follow up
• Understand why internet leads need different follow up systems
• Understand the power of automation
• Have specific ideas on how to automate
• Understand the leverage automation has in managing and developing staff and agents
• Have specific ideas on how to leverage specific points in the transaction to create, repeat and referral business

This course covers:

• Review how our business is consuming
• Examine the paradigm of our business in the past
• Contrast this with our present day paradigm and explore its challenges to the agent and brokerage/team
• Understand the stress points for any agent/team operating with the old tools and methods in the new paradigm
• Review an entire workflow concept from contact to listing to contract to close
• Explore resistance to using a CRM and how to overcome it
• Discuss online lead generation and how this differs from traditional leads
• Understand that collecting data for people, properties and transactions in one platform exponentially leverages the usefulness of all data

ATTENTION CAR MEMBERS: You can receive this course for 50% off its regular price by using your membership benefits at the California Association of REALTORS® website! Visit this course at the CAR Education Online Store for more details.

zipForm® Plus Team Edition is a 2-hour video course that provides a real estate team the ability to build their business with the tools they need to manage the many transactions and bring new members on board. You'll learn to collaborate and assist other team members by creating transactions for them as well as edit transactions on their behalf. The goal of this course is to give you the ability to create a transaction and work and share responsibilities in that transaction folder amongst a group from beginning to close.

How you will benefit from taking this course:

• Understand the enhanced user interface for easy navigation
• Explain how to apply templates at any time during the transaction
• Learn how to easily preview, print and/or add a form.
• Identify features that save time and allow for easy access to transactions
• Assign photos to transaction or contacts.

ATTENTION CAR MEMBERS: You can receive this course for 50% off its regular price by using your membership benefits at the California Association of REALTORS® website! Visit this course at the CAR Education Online Store for more details.