Benefits of membership include legislative and regulatory representation, education and training, and networking opportunities. It is designed to provide financial service professionals an overview of the events and happenings that may affect their business. While you were earning your professional designation, people like me were earning designations in a new field of applied psychology. Let's assume you graduated from college with a respectable grade point average.
Chances are, that's wrong.
Actually, the number one problem college graduates have is that they can't communicate in writing, and people who aren't college educated do even worse. There, that's what it has to do with you, right now. The vast majority of people in business today write at a high school level. Bold and confident one minute, then unsure and timid as soon as their fingers touch the keyboard. While planners and advisors were learning about variable annuities and charitable remainder trusts, a whole body of knowledge around language was being developed.