Evergreen Realty & Associates, Inc., one of the largest real estate brokerages in Orange County, was named as a Top Workplace by the Orange County Register. On December 1, members of Evergreen's management team attended the Top Workplace ceremony held at the City National Grove of Anaheim. Other Top Workplace companies such as Blizzard Entertainment and Trace 3 were also part of this event.
Evergreen was recognized as the number one Top Workplace for the second time. View the video except to see why.
http://www.ocregister.com/video/v/1303339651001/business-lenin-workplaces
The founder, Tina Rector, was awarded with the Large Company Leadership award for her strong values and humble leadership style. Below is an except from the Top Workplace article on Tina, written by Jan Norman:
"Tina Rector's leadership style might best be described as humble. Although she received the leadership award this year, she said her best move as leader was putting son Randy in charge of the growing real estate company. (He has won the Register Top Workplaces leadership award in the past.)
'Randy has taught me a lot,' she said. 'I'm not a corporate person. He was a CPA and brought on board good practices. I sometimes forget he's my son and admire what he is doing.'
Employee praise for Tina Rector included 'communicates well with everybody' and 'supports all aspects for agent to have the best and most productive environment.'
When she started Evergreen Realty in 1993, Rector had a revolutionary idea: Instead of splitting her agents' commissions, she charged a flat fee.
'When I started (as an agent), I split my comissions 50-50 with the broker and I knew that was ridiculous. The broker didn't do that much for me,' she said.
The approach empowers the agents, Randy Rector said, but also frees Evergreen from depending too much on top-producing agents.
'I decided to go out on my own because of the unethical behavior of ot her brokers; things they allowed, we won't,' Tina Rector said. 'Years ago, I pulled aside an agent for doing something wrong and he said, 'I pay your salary.' I said, 'Excuse me. You are going to remember this for the rest of your life.' and I let him go.'"
The organization is known for continuously supporting its agents and for having a friendly and knowledgeable management team. If you would like to learn more about Evergreen Realty & Associates, Inc., visit http://www.evergreenrealty.net or lisa.schulz@evergreenrealty.net.
