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Graphic Insight from PwC CEO Study: How Insurers Will Attract Talent
While job cuts at a handful of insurance companies shrank the U.S. insurance carrier workforce by about 600 jobs last year, for the most part, property/casualty insurers are looking to increase or ...
Insurer Staff Declines Greater Than Anticipated in 2015
Two-thirds of insurers surveyed say they're planning to hire more in 2016, but whether they will actually go through with those plans remains a question. In fact, 14 percent of insurers decreased ...
Are Leaders Giving Employees the Tools to Innovate? New Study Says No
Although executives in a variety of industries pay lip service to the idea that innovation is the responsibility of everyone their companies, employees below the management level are not getting the ...
Three Steps to Improve Leadership Capabilities
A recent study by research firm Brandon Hall Group found critical gaps in leadership training—specifically training targeted for midlevel managers. Here, Amy Fox, president, CEO and founder of ...
Careers Reimagined: Is the Insurance Industry Ready for Our Second Act?
What's next? That's a question that we've asked many times throughout our careers. And despite having 50-plus years of collective experience between us, it's not one that we intend to stop asking ...
Spreading the Word: 12 Steps to Promote Insurance Careers
If you have talked to a young person on the job hunt lately, you have likely heard them yearning for a job that's stable and rewarding and that offers limitless growth opportunities. Risk management ...
For Great Leaders, Failure Matters as Much as Success
Failure is as much a part of life as success, and so it is the case with chief executives and other leaders. Every executive that successfully seals a deal, launches a product or tests an innovative ...
Why Anonymous Employee Feedback Is No Longer Beneficial
According to David Hassell, CEO of employee engagement software firm 15five, the concept behind anonymous feedback is a holdover of a bygone era where, in many organizations, the leadership of a ...