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Providing Opportunities to Employees In Your Agency
When opportunities present themselves within the agency, opening those positions up to other staff may be met with resistance by some, but can be an exciting possibility to others who want to explore new roles.
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What Every Agency Should Do to Prepare for Employee Retirements
While there is no way to replace long-term experience, service, and friendships that an employee built, there are ways for agencies to prepare for their departure.
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How to Know When it's Time to Hire in Your Agency
Whether an agency is overstaffed or understaffed will impact the organization, and both can cause stress for different reasons.
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What Agencies Need to Know Before Buying Lead Lists
When it comes to keeping a full bank of prospects year-round, lead lists are one option available to insurance agencies.
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Dealing with Problems in the Sales Process
Convincing a producer to change their selling habits may not be the easiest task, but here are some tips to break things down and get to the root of the problem so the producer can get back to doing what they do best.
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3 Essential Tips for Producer Management & Compensation
Choosing the cookie-cutter approach to producer management and compensation rather than evaluating each producer book on merit can lead to frustration.
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How To Reconnect A Disconnected Team
Knowing that a remote work environment may be necessary for a few more months, or potentially permanent, it is increasingly critical that leaders find ways to encourage individuals and teams who have lost momentum.
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How To Approach Diversity & Inclusion in Your Agency
The truth is it is an industry that has struggled with diversity and inclusion for a long time. Even as that tide has started to shift, there is still work required to shift mindsets inside and outside insurance.
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Making the Most of Marketing for Your Agency
A marketing plan that lacks design and planning will fall flat with little generation of sales. Understanding that marketing is a representation of the agency and the agents is critical to creating a workable plan.
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Finding the Right Fit For Your Agency Dress Code
There is no right or wrong way to write a dress code, but here are few things to consider when modernizing your company policy on acceptable attire.
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What to Do When Hygiene Becomes a Problem In the Office
Once an employee brings a co-worker's hygiene to your attention, it is essential to act before the stink becomes a problematic stench (literally or figuratively) that interferes with work and performance.
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Unlimited Vacation: Not Always a Day at the Beach
And while it may sound like a great option to get the attention of potential new hires, there are many factors to evaluate before adding it to your agency benefits package.
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4 Ways to Avoid Traps of the Agency Bill Process
Left unchecked, what should be another tool to better service clients can quickly turn into an account’s receivable nightmare.
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How to Bridge the Benefits Gap in Your Agency
Statistics show that people are getting married later or choosing other lifestyles, but benefits offered by employers are failing to catch up to more modern lifestyles.
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Cutting Through Confusing Reports in the AMS
Reports are often difficult to understand and interpret. System-generated reports are also at high risk for errors due to the data that is in the system.
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4 Ways to Eliminate Confusion in the Submission Process
Without the right tools and guidelines, producers can easily find themselves creating their way of doing things, leaving the next person in the process without all of the necessary details to manage the quoting process.
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Quick Tips for Tackling Conflict in the Office
While employees do not need to be best friends, there is a certain level of decency and respect required for people to work together effectively and without being miserable.
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How To Avoid the Frustration of the New Business Process
The path to finding a working sales strategy is certainly not a straight one, but these tips will help producers refine their sales process.
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Is It OK to Date a Coworker?
Before the relationship gets too serious, there are a few essential things you will want to keep in mind.
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4 Tips to Ease Your Outsourcing Transition Pains
While outsourcing does present a significant up-side, it is important that agency leaders are able to understand how this solution can work for their organization.
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5 Tips for Successfully Executing Agency Goals
While it can be easy to get carried away with massive lists of goals and to-do’s, it is important that there are steps taken to evaluate and select goals that will have the biggest impact.
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5 Steps to Reduce Stress When Switching AMS
Any agency that has been through an Agency Management System conversion can quickly tell you that it never quite goes as planned.
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6 Tips For Making Flexible Scheduling Work In Your Agency
The traditional workweek in an insurance agency is quickly becoming a thing of the past. No longer is the 9-5, Monday – Friday the norm or the expectation.
