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AIG Chairman Backs Departing CEO’s Strategy, Opposing Breakup
American International Group Inc.'s chairman reaffirmed support for the course charted by Peter Hancock, even after the CEO announced he was stepping down because of insufficient investor backing. ...
The Hartford Launches Customer-Focused Insurance Apprenticeship Program
The Hartford, with an eye on generating its next generation of customer service and claims employees, is beginning an insurance apprenticeship program. The property/casualty insurer is launching the ...
Get Ready to Recruit Gen Z
With the first members of Generation Z about to graduate college and already beginning to enter the workforce, it's time for companies to be proactive about learning how to attract the iGeneration, ...
The Hartford Exec Tooker Given Additional Responsibilities
The Hartford has given one of its major executives some additional responsibilities. Mo Tooker, hired as chief underwriting officer for P/C operations less than two years ago, is now also head of the ...
How Temporary Employees Are Changing the Modern Insurance Workforce
The insurance industry's talent landscape is experiencing a rapid evolution. The industry workplace of recent years is being quickly replaced by a new "blended" reality. The modern workforce is now ...
Leadership Briefings Can Boost Motivation, Productivity
Leadership briefings can work wonders in motivating and teaching staff, but only if they engage employees and get the leader's message across, says best practices company CEB in a new blog posting. A ...
Forget Millennials—Think Talent Innovation
By 2018, we can expect 25 percent of the current insurance workforce to retire, creating 400,000 open positions for which there are no ready replacements. That is the first takeaway of the 2016 ...
More Than Half of Senior Managers Annoyed by Messy Workspaces
More than half (54 percent) of senior managers are distracted or annoyed by their employees' messy workspaces, according to a recent survey by staffing firm OfficeTeam. At the same time, 1 in 10 ...