After 33 years, well-known industry trainer Adam Walker has announced that he will not be running any more training courses.
More than 150,000 people have attended Walker’s training courses since 1987, but he has decided to suspend them indefinitely owed in part to Covid-19.
He explained: “Since 1987, over 150,000 people have attended my training courses. I have enjoyed running them enormously and I have met some wonderful people along the way. However, with great sadness, I have decided that I cannot run them anymore.
There are two primary reasons why Walker thinks that now is the right time to suspend his training courses.
He continued: “The first obviously is the pandemic. Covid has changed the sales and management training market for ever. For several months, it was illegal to run a training course. It is now possible to run one but demand for traditional training is only a fraction of what it was before. The majority of training is now delivered online but I simply do not believe that it is possible to achieve the same results from a virtual course. I simply do not want to run courses that are less effective than the ones that I ran before, and so I have decided reluctantly to stop running training courses altogether.
“The second reason that I have stopped running courses is that the business sales side of my business has become hugely successful over the last ten years. I now employ eight people to assist me with this work and we have completed the sale of several hundred estate agency and letting businesses over this time. Due to my success in this field and the challenges of progressing multiple sales at the same time, I have decided that I need to be able to devote 100% of my time to this important and challenging work.”
Walker says that he will continue to offer a business consultancy service to clients who want to increase the value of their business before they sell it.
He added: “I will also continue to offer a service to clients who are splitting from their business partners.
“I do hope to return to training when the pandemic is finally over but I would anticipate that this will take the form of a small number of large events each year.”
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank the 150,000 people who have attended my training courses over the last thirty-three years and I do hope that our paths will cross again in the future.
“In fact, one of my recent sales was for a client who attended a training course when he was a trainee manager for a corporate chain thirty years ago. Since then, he has built a multi-million-pound business and it was a real privilege to be in at both the beginning of his career in the property sector and the end of it. I do hope that some small part of his success can be attributed to what he learned on that course.”
What a legend. The single reason why I now charge 2% and not 1.5%
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It’s been a pleasure to meet you Adam at one of your training courses, which had been an eye-opener, wish you well.
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Good luck Adam
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I imagine and good on him his business has prospered very well on Commercial sales.
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Adam, having first met you in 1989, meeting in secret places discussing setting up my own agency, whilst still having the day job with a corporate, I was always struck by your knowledge, professionalism and the care that you took, traits that have endured for the decades that followed. You have helped more than one generation of agents and with your commercial side of the business you have become the trusted exit pilot for many great businesses, over the years I have always said have a word with Adam he is the man in the know when asked who to go to. I also understand why the pandemic has forced you to make the decision you have. It is a real shame you can not get some of those 150,000 folk togther for a farewell party as you close down that part of your operations.
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