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Agent Onboarding Solution Checklist for Insurance Companies and Agencies
Companies rely on agents to drive growth, but the onboarding process typically moves slowly due to corporate, regulatory and verification requirements. The delay in bringing agents on board directly ...
The Underwriting Staffing Challenge: Recruitment Strategies for a Vanishing Talent Pool
The war for talent has hit the insurance industry with incredible force. Having weathered the recent "Great Recession" with its record unemployment rates, company downsizings and mass professional ...
The First Audience
"As I looked at the aggressive nature of our plan, there was a set of people who didn't fit the plan or didn't have the right skill set or didn't have the right attitude. We're hiring like crazy for ...
What Is the Meaning of Diversity in Asia?
Awareness of diversity started to develop within the Asia-Pacific region in the early 2000s, but in the present day, understanding and application of diversity and inclusion in Asia still varies ...
The Sharing Leader
Some aspiring leaders think that it is lonely at the top. Not so. Or at least it doesn't have to be. The really effective leaders have learned—and understand—that they cannot do it alone. They ...
Innovation Unleashed
William is my dog. By all customary and conventional measures, Willy is not a nice dog. He is not a dog you would encourage your children to entertain. But I love him. Willy is a sad, mad dog with ...
Who Will Be the Next Uncarrier?
As insurance carriers struggle to set themselves apart from one another, they might want to seek inspiration from a different type of carrier—the wireless kind. In late 2012, wireless carrier ...
What’s in a Name? The Importance of Reputation Management
"Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon," Mark Twain once said. Reputation is as important today as it was in Twain's day, but perhaps not necessarily as unassailable. ...