Steve D Valentine, in a short YouTube/podcast-style talk, urges people (particularly agents) to understand and integrate into an organization’s culture before committing. He uses a dating analogy — attend calls, live events, and observe the team to "date" the culture, earn your seat at the table, and ensure you truly fit before making major life changes.
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Once you're a part of who we are, it's kind of like earning your seat at the table and having a spot for your voice where you go, okay, you've been crushing it. We're here. How do you think we could do better? Yes, but I'm not interested in how you think we could do better if you have no idea what we do, how we do it. That's. That's very, very valid. Is. You know, I think that one of the things recently, and I don't remember exactly where it came from, It's. It's kind of like how we've been operating at real and inside my network is like, hey, just come over and date for a little while. Like, come be on a call. Come to a live event. Come hang with me. Like, let's a little bit of dating and see if you like this culture and these things. And I think agents should do more dating the process. Like, oh, this team looks great, but let me peek onto the hood and see if I really want to be here before I go change my whole life.