ShareWelcome to summer 2024! After successfully navigating a leadership transition at NAR, we are now helping our members navigate definite dates, plans and practice changes resulting from the class-action litigation. As association executives, it is a wonderful time for us to work with one another at the local, state and national levels to share and supplement the resources that we have all created to assist our brokers and agents with these changes. As I write this, our MLS partners are also working to ensure the new rules are in place. Meanwhile, our members are finding new ways to collaborate with each other to market properties. For the latest updates, visit facts.realtor.
Because we have gone through so much change recently, it is important to remember work-life balance. We will be together in late August for Leadership Week, and we will begin plans for 2025. Please force yourself to take a couple of days off to rest and reset if you haven’t planned to do so already. I saw a colleague at the REALTORS® Legislative Meetings who had just returned from three days off, spending time with family and zero time on work email. He looked happy, relaxed and full of energy. Lesson learned! We all need to treat ourselves and our brains to a little downtime to refresh and regroup.
We are now more than 90 days past our joint AE Institute in San Diego. Since then, I’ve challenged myself to be more connected with my colleagues across the country. Sometimes we get into habits, and AEI is a good opportunity to learn and then change things up when we get back to our home offices. Through this process, I have learned more about how others are working with their members on outreach, professional standards complaints, land scams and other issues. It has greatly assisted me in being proactive to find new tools and resources to help our members.
I am curious: What have you implemented or changed since attending AEI? Let me know at thatton@ marealtor.com.
We are here for each other! If you have something to share, please do, and if you need something, please reach out.
