Working in real estate means working with a lot of people in a variety of locations and online.  While focusing on finding the best real estate opportunities for your clients, you need to keep an eye on the risks of doing business.

Real Estate Safety Matters: Safe Business = Smart Business is offered as a 1 and 3 hour course.  Learn how you can easily keep  business risks low while increasing opportunities for growth by:

• Developing safety protocols for client meetings, open houses, showings and online interactions.
• Understanding responses to threats or attacks.
• Maintaining data security.
• Protecting personal and electronic information.

Course Description:

Developed in partnership with NAR's REALTOR ^® Safety program, this course is an essential primer on how real estate professionals can limit risk to preserve safety-their safety, their clients' safety- and for positive business outcomes. Learn how to assess risk in their current practice and create safety systems, scripts, and tools for listing appointments, showing property, and conducting open houses.  Also learn to protect personal and electronic information online, in the cloud, and on social networks.  As a practical resource, this course offers easy-to-remember strategies for real estate professionals when facing potentially dangerous situations.

Registration: To register for a Real Estate Safety Matters: Safe Business = Smart Business course near you or via LearnMyWay^® webinar visit the Education Calendar.

How you will benefit from taking this course:

• Explain commonalties among reported crimes involving real estate professionals.
• Describe the reasons why real estate can be risky.
• Explain how to stay safe while showing properties, sitting open houses and model
  homes, and going on listing appointments.
• Describe how to stay safe at the office and on the road.
• Explain ways to minimize the opportunity for crime.
• Describe how we respond to threats and attacks.
• Identify considerations when taking a self-defense course or when arming oneself.
• Explain internet-based scams using email.
• Describe how real estate professionals can help preserve their safety on social
  networks.
• Discuss best practices for protecting one's identity, creating smart passwords, and
  protecting client data.
• Discuss best practices at the office.
• Remember how to help organize and follow company best safety practices.
• Learn how to create and actively promote communication about safety at the office.

Who should attend:

Any real estate professional who wants to protect their business from real estate safety risks.