Is learning essential to the financial advice profession?
From the second we are born, our lives become one big learning experience. As we grow, the pace and scope of our learnings accelerate and broaden. Our knowledge accumulates, lifting our capabilities to higher levels. It is a never-ending process that sees us continuing to add new skills throughout our professional careers.
The value we place on training and guidance as key resources cannot be overstated. By enhancing our personal worth, we contribute to the human capital of the organisations we work with.
As Aristotle told us more than two thousand years ago, “All men by nature desire to know.”
Understanding this, Asteron Life has for the past ten years played its part by partnering in an excellent knowledge-based program – the AFA Excellence in Education Awards.
“It is critical for all of us to embrace professional education as it continues to evolve and become an instrumental part of our business during the coming years, particularly with the introduction of the Professional Standards for Financial Advisers on 1 January 2019,” said Daniel Waller, National Key Accounts & Services Manager.
“Asteron Life is working closely with the AFA in determining how we can best support advisers through this next era of financial advice.”
The AFA Excellence in Education Award is designed to recognise how participating advisers have applied their skills to building quality advice businesses that will further enhance the professionalism of our industry.
Candidates are asked to go above and beyond and prove their commitment to excellence through the quality of the advice they offer their clients.
As last year’s winner of the AFA Excellence in Education Award, Stephen Nielsen said: “There is currency for the concept of the Learning Organisation for the modern adviser and the practices they operate. “Learning to Learn” is the embodiment of the drive towards not only higher educational and professional standards, but also to increasing levels of perceptiveness to the “voice of the customer” and the voice of society generally.
“Advisers who take the opportunity to develop their own perceptiveness in these areas will be able to be more adaptive to the changing times we live in. Therefore the need to work continually on skills to enhance perceptiveness and the ability to adapt, will characterise those who rise as the “success stories” of our profession.“
Knowledge can empower us all to simply be better. The AFA Excellence in Education Award recognises and rewards financial advisers for their dedicated professionalism and outstanding commitment to lifelong learning.
As Daniel Waller, National Key Accounts & Services Manager at Asteron Life said: “Asteron Life is proud to continue to support this great Award.”
“We recognise the importance of ongoing education. This Award is an essential element in further strengthening and developing the financial advice profession. It not only recognises the nominees, but also the need for ongoing education, no matter what age or stage of your career.”
By recognising advisers who are continually investing in themselves, the award once again underscores the principal that nothing empowers like knowledge.
For more information or to enter the AFA Excellence in Education Award visit asteronlife.com.au/afaawards. Nominations close 16 June 2017.
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