Insights

Insights on leadership, commercial real estate talent and careers

Every article H1 is a question, and the opening paragraph is a 40-word answer. Written by Cindy Nicholls Smith for leaders, boards, and candidates in the markets AVID EXEC serves.

Four pillarsFig. 01 — Index

Leadership and succession

What should a privately held company do before its founder steps back?
How do you replace a senior leader without losing the team underneath them?
What do you owe someone you are letting go?

Commercial real estate talent

What does a director of property management do that a property manager does not?
Why do CRE brokerages lose their best associates in year three?
What is a broker of record responsible for in Alberta?

Compensation and retention

What does senior property management leadership pay in Alberta?
When is a counter-offer worth making?
How much of a compensation package should be at risk?

Career strategy

How do you move from property management into asset management?
How do you run a job search confidentially while employed?
What should you ask an executive recruiter before you engage?

Latest articlesFig. 02 — From the journal

Career strategy
How do you move from property management into asset management?
Compensation and retention
What does senior property management leadership pay in Alberta?
Commercial real estate talent
What does a director of property management do that a property manager does not?
Commercial real estate talent
Why do CRE brokerages lose their best associates in year three?

Insights on leadership, commercial real estate talent and careers

Leadership and succession

Commercial real estate talent

Compensation and retention

Career strategy

How do you move from property management into asset management?

What does senior property management leadership pay in Alberta?

What does a director of property management do that a property manager does not?

Why do CRE brokerages lose their best associates in year three?