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Keller
Williams Realty
Keller
Williams Realty History
Why Keller
Williams Realty?
Keller
Williams History
Gary Keller and Joe Williams founded Keller Williams®
Realty in 1983 with the specific premise that buyers and sellers
deserve the best service for their real estate needs. For
more than 17 years that founding premise has been a major
factor in the continued growth of Keller Williams® across
North America.
Because each Keller Williams® Market Center has grown
within its respective community, Keller Williams® real
estate agents have intimate knowledge of each community's
character, mood, and growth potential. Due to the fact that
the majority of Keller Williams® Associates live in the
communities and neighborhoods they serve, they are eager and
capable of tackling unique challenges families encounter when
selecting new homes.
Keller Williams® continues to offer its members unsurpassed
career and business training. Through Keller Williams®
University, educational programs focus on increasing the personal
productivity, marketing skills, and career development of
all Keller Williams® Team Members.
Keller Williams® is taking its commitment to its clients,
associates, brokers, and colleagues into the 21st century
via eagentc.com - an internally funded department designed
to provide technology research and tools for Keller Williams®
associates and their brokers.
Our Mission:
To build careers worth having, businesses worth owning, and
lives worth living.
Our Vision:
To be the Real Estate Company of choice for a new generation.
Our Values:
God, Family, then Business
Our Belief:
Our beliefs are an essential part of who we are and how we
conduct business. The Keller Williams® Belief System is
the foundation for providing the ultimate in service for our
clients.
Why
Keller Williams?
Keller Williams - Inman News’ Most
Innovative Company 2001
“Bottom Up Leadership”
It is said that Keller Williams is run by a “limited
democracy” through its ALC, or Agent Leadership Council.
Agents and managers at the Market Center, city, regional, and
international levels participate in this “bottom up”
leadership, providing direction and decisions for key
policies, guidelines, and services. As Keller Williams
subscribes to an unheard-of level of “open book” finances,
the ALC’s also provide oversight for the company’s
accounting practices at each level of the organization. In
keeping with the Keller Williams tenet of a win-win process,
the ALC model enables agents to take on an owner’s
mentality, while keeping Keller Williams in the exceptional
position of truly understanding what its agents need.
“Learning-Based Company”
Keller Williams recognizes that real estate professionals must
be “learning-based” to continually break through
successive ceilings of achievement. To that end, Keller
Williams is committed to being a learning-based company
through Keller Williams University, or KWU.
KWU currently provides more than 350 comprehensive sales,
leadership, and business education offerings to its associates
per year, delivered by world-class instructors at local,
regional, and national levels. Through KWU, Keller Williams
makes a tangible commitment to learning-based lives.
Careers Worth Having, Businesses Worth
Owning, and Lives Worth Living
Keller Williams believes that a real estate career can become
a business. An agent can operate and grow his or her real
estate practice as a true business with fundamental
leadership, sales, and business skills.
However, careers worth having and
businesses worth owning are even more valuable when combined
with a healthy and balanced personal life. In today’s
fast-paced environment, positive personal lives are often
considered a “nice-to-have” and non-essential to
professional success.
Keller Williams understands the necessity of a positive
equilibrium between professional and personal achievements, so
much so that KWU offers a complete course called Quantum Leap,
which focuses on personal achievement and having a balanced
and happy life.
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