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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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Making the Most of Your 1st Year in Insurance
While the learning curve in the insurance industry can be significant, the beginning months are a great time to build a foundation for success.
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How to Leave & Return to A Career In Insurance
While the idea of leaving and then trying to come back can be intimidating, think of it as temporarily moving to another community knowing you will return to your hometown when it's time to settle down and build a life.
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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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How to Navigate the Path from Service to Sales
A role in production often affords flexibility, the opportunity to determine your earning potential, and residual income on retained accounts.
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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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How To Make the Leap from Agency Employee to Owner
The information here will provide insight into the critical items that should be on every new agency owner's mind.
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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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How to Create Connection in a Socially Distanced World
Whether it is adherence to social distancing guidelines, working with clients that are too busy or located a long way from the office, there are still many advantages to learning how to market and build relationships remotely that are beneficial now and will prove to be useful in the future.
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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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What Every Agent Should Do Before Signing an Insurance Producer Agreement
Learn what every insurance agent needs to know before signing a producer agreement, including tips, risks, and steps to maximize your career success.
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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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Should You Invest in a Professional Designation?
Continuing education comes with the territory for insurance professionals and one option that continues to be popular in the industry is professional designation courses.
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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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4 Resources Every New Employee Needs
Without clear guidelines, employees are doing things the best way they know-how, but very likely doing things their own way. When this happens, important steps can be missed and results will be inconsistent.
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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.
