Enhanced Training & Development

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Enhanced Training & Development

At HLPartnership, training & development is an integral part of the network, providing full support and guidance to all of our members.

We’ve made significant investment in our training provision recently, from growing the team, increasing the range of courses available and enhancing how you can find and take part in the training itself.

Growing the team We are passionate about learning and development, so to give HLP members the best possible experience, we have welcomed on board several new faces to help provide additional courses and grow the range of training opportunities available every month.

Protection is at the heart of the HLP network philosophy, so one major area of recent development is the recruitment of two dedicated Protection experts, Steve Fallon and Ian Pratt, who are running a range of Protection courses, where any of our members can join and simply find out more about how to have those complex Protection conversations with clients.

Furthermore, there’s scope for dedicated one-to-one training with Steve Fallon, and this includes production of branded videos to help aid Protection discussions. Becky Baker

Training Manager

Heading up the Training Team, Becky has over twenty years’ experience in the industry, delivering training, business development and adviser supervision to a wide variety of businesses, from start-ups to established SME’s and everything in between. Alongside this, Becky has extensive skills in the areas of people management and Later Life Lending.

Expanding the range of courses When joining the HLP network, there’s a set range of induction courses designed to ensure that everyone has the same grounding in the basic principles, however beyond this, there are a whole range of ongoing training and development opportunities for all members taking place throughout the year.

We’re working hard to grow the range of training available. We have been listening carefully to feedback from our members on what they want, and what they need. As well as in-house training, we work with a range of lenders and providers across the market, reaching out to experts in their respective fields to share industry-leading knowledge, expertise and tips to HLP members. Recently, we hosted a highly-successful run of sessions covering everything around Buyto-Let lending, and vital information on how Energy Performance Certificate legislation may affect landlords in the future.

Coming up in the months ahead, we’ve got a wide range of courses, covering key industry topics such as working with vulnerable customers, fraud prevention, Trusts and cyber security. Many of our courses also contribute towards member’s Continued Professional Development (CPD), thus presenting a further excellent reason to keep checking the range of courses available.

Where to find the latest courses Visit our dedicated training website at www.hlpcourses.co.uk to view the latest courses available and register for attendance at the sessions you’d like to attend.

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HLP Appoints Second Protection Specialist

HLPartnership is expanding the range of support given to advisers on the important topic of protection. We’re proud to announce that protection expert Ian Pratt joins us, a seasoned industry professional joining us from a distinguished career with Legal & General and Pearl Assurance. Ian Pratt

Protection Development Specialist

Ian has recently joined the HLPartnership team after a long career at both Legal & General and Pearl Assurance. Protection runs through the heart of everything Ian’s been involved in, and he is an instrumental part of the HLP Network’s protection team, helping to educate and inspire advisers on making protection part of the mortgage advice process from the very outset.

Here, Ian takes up his story:

With a rapidly changing world, a volatile economy, and a cost-of-living crisis upon us, never has protection been so important to all of our clients.

I’ve spent a career in the financial services industry helping others, and I’m tremendously excited to join the HLPartnership team, supporting our advisers having those challenging protection conversations with their clients.

As a Network, our goal is to ensure that every client is offered protection during the advice process. However, one of the most common areas of adviser feedback is that many of you find it very challenging to start a discussion on protection, especially when a client is so focused on their goal of buying a home, and protection can merely be perceived as yet another unnecessary expense.