Posted:
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Category:
Real Estate License
Real estate CE credits are a must-have. There are some careers where getting continuing education isn’t as critical, but not real estate. When you’re trying to keep track of your employees and their continuing education, you need to make sure that you are doing everything in your power to keep everyone current.
Sure, you might think that it’s their responsibility, and not yours, to track their continuing education and the expiration of their license, and in an ideal world that would be the case. However, when they have expired licensure, your business can get in serious trouble, so you need to keep tabs on things like this for your own sake.
Know which courses they’ve taken already. There are many situations where a course can only be taken once for credit, so you need to make sure that they’re not signing up for the same course again and wasting time, money and other resources. Plus, you’ll be able to track their progress and learn where they need to go from here.
Know what courses they need to take. Various states mandate certain real estate courses to be completed at certain points in a career. By getting a list of required courses and marking them off as they are completed, you can help your agents develop an effective schedule for their real estate CE. Plus, you can make sure that they’re really getting the required courses that they need.
When does their license expire? Sure, this might not seem like your problem, but for the sake of your business you better make it yours. When licenses expire, that looks bad on the part of the business as well as the agent, so you need to protect yourself. Plus, you can help them to develop a schedule of CE classes that suits the timeline that they have until their license needs renewed.
With online courses, it’s easier than ever to help your employees track their CE and make sure that they get the courses that they need. However, this isn’t a situation where everyone is going to excel, so you need to make sure that you know what is going on, even when they don’t. With online CE courses, you can utilize learning management systems (LMS) to track progress and see everything in the same place. This can be much more helpful than a piece of paper in a drawer, and can allow you to track all of your employees at once.
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