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Employee Hiring, Development, and Retention

Formal Performance Review Best Practices: Turning a Judging Act into a Coaching Process

2013-01-01 | Mike Poskey

Mike Poskey recommends moving the annual review from a systemic judging act to a coaching process.

Employee Hiring, Development, and Retention

Interview for Success, and Avoid the Legal Pitfalls

2013-01-01 | Mike Poskey

Discussion about avoid legal issues when interviewing potential employees.

Employee Hiring, Development, and Retention

Informal Performance Review Best Practices

2012-12-01 | Mike Poskey

Sometimes, guiding an employee to improve takes a little nudge. Mike Poskey provides pointers.

Employee Hiring, Development, and Retention

Best Practices in Hiring

2012-11-01 | Mike Poskey

If a job candidate looks good on paper and looks good in the interview, one would naturally assume this candidate would be a good fit for the job. While it sounds logical, it doesn't always work out that way. Mike Poskey reviews.

Leadership at All Levels

You Can't Lead If No One Is Following You

2011-12-01 | Corbette Doyle

Leaders and followers are like dance partners—success is mutually dependent on the actions of both. Corbette Doyle explains.

Valuation of Insurance Organizations

Trends in the Valuation of Health Insurers: 2011

2011-11-12 | Jeff Balcombe

Insurance industry trend toward mergers and acquisitions is expected to continue in 2012 per Jeff Balcombe.

Valuation of Insurance Organizations

Life Insurance Company Valuations and Interest Rates

2011-08-01 | Jeff Balcombe

Disintermediation could remain a risk to life insurance companies, potentially placing downward pressure on equity valuations, per Jeff Balcombe.

Risk and Insurance History

The History of Proximate Causation

2011-07-01 | Richard J Scislowski

Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, and Aristotle can provide guidance on how courts have viewed causation under first-party property policies.

Valuation of Insurance Organizations

Impact of Hard Market Expectations on Agency and Broker Value

2011-05-13 | Jeff Balcombe

Economic factors can reveal the current and future potential of valuations of insurance agencies and brokers, per Jeff Balcombe.

Market Practices

Claims Administration—The Insurance Service

2010-12-01 | Peter Polstein

Pete Polstein stresses the importance of claims administration.

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