Ryan Anderson from Denver spent two years coaching with Lars Hedenborg and credits Lars' player-coach approach with helping him build a high-functioning real estate team. He shares how the proven strategies delivered immediate results for scaling his business.
I'm Ryan Anderson and from Denver, Colorado, and I've been in the business now for 13 years. And our team is the Anderson Group and we have about six agents right now or six team members right now. Been coaching with Lars two years now as a coach. He was. It's like a coach that's been a player but is still a player. It's a lot like taking on Magic Johnson and having him run another team while he's still playing on the Lakers. And he's telling, here's what we did at practice. Now I want you guys to try and do this. And it's like having a player coach, but he's still in the game. It's not like he's living off old stuff. So that's the coolest part is when he tells you, hey, we're doing this, we're implementing this and this is the return we're getting. It's gold because, you know, it's proven. And I was thinking about that just recently. The new material he gives us is so much different than any other seminar I could go to because they're telling me stuff that maybe might work with no specific. You come up with it, he tells you exactly what is working and then you can just imitate and do it with your own branding. It's beautiful. Yeah, it's been great because he's brought on talented other coaches to assist with unique like selling side or team development side. And then he's the bigger picture. And so he knows me more intimately than the others do. But it's almost now there's three coaches that we have access to, which is wonderful because they all have different personalities too. You can get a little bit of growth from each one. And then he sums it all up and helps balance out your whole plan. My goal is to personally own a business that I can eventually step out of and run. Right now I'm still in production, I'm still working with clients, sellers mostly. We've got our team of buyer's agents. And so what I want to do is build this really high functioning team that could be duplicated 10,000 times and not miss a beat. It's going to be something where I can sell, I can duplicate in other cities. And the great thing that I have a vision for is that I'm just the back of the bus kind of guy. I'm not the front runner. I've never been the smartest, I've never been the most talented. But with a system, anything is possible. And if I can hire and find talented individuals to step into each role in our business. I don't need to be the all purpose rain man, you know, the rainmaker, as most of the real estate agents are. I just want to be the vision. I want to be the motivation and I want to be the inspiration for us to keep moving in the right direction towards transforming lives, which is our big purpose, and making real estate a big part of people's lives and adding value to homeowners in Colorado.
