How can being a newly licensed Strata Agent be like playing a video game?
Unless you’re having a full portfolio dumped on your lap the minute your training is complete, you’re likely slowly adding properties to your portfolio.
What we like to do here at Fort Park is to gradually add properties to our new recruits while they’re training. This way they can comfortably learn on the job, and slowly grow their portfolio as their knowledge and skills increase.
They may receive one property after a month, then another couple after 2 months, then up to 4, 8, 12, etc. until their portfolio is full. This process can take a year or more, depending on their experience, and how quickly they can grasp the complexities of the position.
In most video games, level 1 is usually super easy, and allows you to become familiar with how to play the game, use the weapons, how to scroll through the levels, etc. The bad guys then become a little bit faster in level 2, there are more of them, etc. Level 3 speeds up even more, with more bad guys coming at you with greater speed, and your reaction time needs to speed up even more just to keep up. By the time you hit the higher levels, you barely have time to react, and your muscle memory is doing the majority of the work.
When you’re starting out with only a couple of strata properties it’s basically the same thing. You may only have one Council meeting per month, maybe only 10-20 emails per day, and only a handful of invoices to approve. Simple, and easy for most people to process. When you double up to 4 properties, things start coming in more quickly, emails, phone calls, etc, and it becomes a bit tougher to stay on top of everything. Double that from 4 to 8 properties, and most recruits will start really experiencing what it’s like to be a strata manager, with more tasks, meetings, emails, phone calls, and daily issues than can possibly be dealt with in a day. By the time the portfolio is full, things become much more reactionary, and just like the final boss level in a video game, you need to move at lightning speed to stay alive!
I love to use this analogy because I find it’s the best way to explain what it’s like to be Strata Agent to someone who has never done it before. The job is relatively simple, and 99% of the population could handle a handful of properties, but when you are managing 10-20 properties, things come at you so rapidly, that you really need to do things at an equally rapid pace, efficiently, and effectively.
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