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Addressing Sexism and Gender Discrimination
Learn effective strategies to address sexism and gender discrimination in your organization. Implement clear policies, provide training, and foster an inclusive culture to promote equality.
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Team Building Best Practices During M&A
Enhance team cohesion during insurance agency mergers with structured onboarding, clear communication, and inclusive team-building activities.
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Death By Meetings
Discover strategies to overcome "Death by Meetings" in insurance agencies. Learn how to conduct effective meetings and address unethical behavior among coworkers in this insightful blog post.
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Slow to Hire, Fast to Fire
Learn how to implement the 'hire slow, fire fast' strategy in your insurance agency to build a strong, accountable team. Discover best practices for thoughtful hiring and decisive performance management.
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Overcoming Pandemic Challenges for Agencies and Producers
Insurance agencies can overcome pandemic challenges by focusing on niche markets, investing in employee development, and leveraging lessons from past recessions to navigate economic uncertainties.
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Valuable Lessons Learned So Far During COVID-19
Agency leaders can enhance job security and operational resilience by embracing flexibility, leveraging technology, and fostering transparent communication during economic uncertainties like COVID-19.
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How Should Internal Employee Moves be Managed?
Learn effective strategies for managing internal employee transitions in insurance agencies: establish clear policies, ensure transparency, and provide adequate training to support successful role changes.
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The Impact of the Pandemic on the Insurance Industry
The insurance industry has already had to make some uncomfortable shifts. Businesses have downsized or closed, and claims against carriers are coming from every direction.
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3 Keys to Job Security in a Pandemic
The pandemic of 2020 will impact the economy in ways that we have yet to understand fully. The insurance industry is certainly not insulated from this.
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Finding the Right Niche During an Ongoing Pandemic
While some businesses have had to close permanently, some have found success despite the pandemic's challenges.
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Boost Employee Productivity in a Remote Workplace
As so many made the transition overnight, being able to effectively move all operations from inside the same building into everyone’s homes has been difficult for both agencies and their employees.
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Finding Prospects During a Persisting Pandemic
As access to people and businesses has been difficult, producers have faced the challenge of attempting to create and build relationships with prospects.
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Breathing Life Back Into An Old & Ugly Office Space
The wrong environment can send the wrong message to both employees and clients, it can present a challenge when an owner doesn’t see the problem the employees are staring at every day.
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How to Handle a Decline In Employee Performance
Turning a blind eye to poor performance is damaging to both the culprit and the other employees having to pick up the slack of their co-worker.
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Winning Back an Unpaid Bonus
While calculation and payment are typically straightforward, there can be issues in any areas of the bonus agreement that are ambiguous.
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3 Tips for More Effective Carrier Meetings
While meetings occur with different parties for different reasons, the carrier marketing rep meetings can be particularly challenging.
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3 Helpful Tips for Beginners in the Insurance Industry
Early in your insurance career it can be challenging to understand all the ins and outs of how an agency operates.
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How to Help a Struggling Coworker
As nice as it would be for our personal and professional lives could remain separate, the two often intersect and impact one another. This crossover can be OK if appropriate boundaries are in place with limited interaction between the two.
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Overcoming Hurdles After an Agency Acquisition
Tension can result as both agencies struggle to figure out how they will adapt and work together in the future.
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How to Make the Most of Meetings in Your Agency
While there is value in pulling people in the agency together to review, regroup, and strategize on agency initiatives, meeting fatigue is real.
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How to Address Gender Bias In Your Agency
Despite the significant improvement over recent years, there is still work to create better gender equality.
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Evaluating & Resolving the Gender Pay Gap in Your Agency
While some agencies may still shy away from acknowledging or discussing the issue, that does not make it any less real or meaningful.
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How to Use Challenges as Fuel to Improve
Building a career in insurance, while very lucrative, is not without its stumbles along the way.
