{"id":9222,"date":"2025-05-01T21:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:56:11","slug":"surge-scheduling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/surge-scheduling\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge Scheduling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Surge Scheduling is now often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitces.com\/blog\/meeting-surges-advisor-productivity-stephanie-bogan-limitless-adviser-factory-focus-work\/\">a common practice in Wealth Management<\/a> where financial advisors concentrate client meetings into specific, intensive periods\u2014typically a few weeks or months each year\u2014rather than spreading them evenly throughout the year. These &#8220;surge&#8221; periods involve back-to-back client review meetings, often 3\u20136 per day, several days a week, to maximize efficiency. The goal is to free up significant portions of the year for other critical tasks like business development, financial planning, continuing education, or personal time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits of Surge Scheduling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Time Efficiency<\/strong><br>By clustering meetings, advisors can free up 50\u201375% of their year. For example, 100 client meetings at 4 per day could be completed in 25 days (5\u20136 weeks), leaving 30+ weeks for other priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Increased Productivity<\/strong><br>Focused meeting blocks reduce context-switching, allowing advisors to batch administrative tasks and dedicate uninterrupted time to strategic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Improved Client Experience<\/strong><br>Structured scheduling can enhance preparation and consistency, delivering high-touch service during meetings. Clients often appreciate the flexibility to choose times within surge windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Work-Life Balance<\/strong><br>Support reduced work hours (e.g., from 40\u201345 to 25 hours per week) while maintaining or growing revenue, allowing more family or personal time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How GReminders can help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Within Event Types you can specify which &#8220;Months&#8221; clients can schedule meetings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A typical configuration would be to allow clients to schedule in the next 3-6 months but ONLY for the first month of every calendar quarter.   Example below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/event-type-months-1024x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/event-type-months-1024x500.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/event-type-months-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/event-type-months-768x375.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/event-type-months.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you do this at the Event Type Level (for Annual Review for example) you can easily roll this out via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/event-type-templates-for-administrators\/\">Managed Event Types<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally if each of your Advisors has a different &#8220;Surge&#8221; schedule OR some advisors do &#8220;Surge&#8221; vs other who do not, you can leave it up to each Advisor and they can manage this with an additional Working Hours Schedule, and then USE this Working Hours Schedule in their Annual Review Event Types like so:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/surge-working-hours-1024x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/surge-working-hours-1024x606.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/surge-working-hours-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/surge-working-hours-768x454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greminders.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/surge-working-hours.jpg 1393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Simple as that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surge scheduling in wealth management is a game-changer for advisors seeking efficiency and balance. By concentrating client meetings into intensive, well-planned periods, advisors can free up months for business growth, personal time, or deeper client work. While it boosts productivity and streamlines operations, success hinges on client buy-in and robust systems. For firms ready to embrace this disciplined approach, surge scheduling offers a path to work smarter, not harder, delivering value to both advisors and clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any questions?   Reach out to support@greminders.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Scheduling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surge Scheduling is now often a common practice in Wealth Management where financial advisors concentrate client meetings into specific, intensive periods\u2014typically a few weeks or months each year\u2014rather than spreading them evenly throughout the year. These &#8220;surge&#8221; periods involve back-to-back client review meetings, often 3\u20136 per day, several days a week, to maximize efficiency. 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