Whether children or adults, people will live up to others' expectations of them. What are your employee evaluations telling your employees? How are these appraisals affecting their performance? In this document, Don Phin examines how employees react to performance evaluations, personally and professionally.

EMPLOYEE THEFT Dear (Customer Name): $42,000 lost through secretary's check forgery. $600,000 lost when trusted bookkeeper funneled off funds over a 10-year period. ...

EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE YOUR FIRST CLIENTS by Jack Burke Businesses spend billions of dollars every year to attract and retain clients. On a daily basis, owners and managers shout, Wha...

Distinguish between the terms “non-compete” and “non-piracy.”

In its basic terms, a Non-Compete clause protects the agency against a former employee taking accounts that they produced or for which they were responsible while an agency employee. A Non-Piracy clause protects the agency from a former employee taking any agency accounts, whether or not they were responsible for producing or servicing them.

copy;Copyright 1994 by Business Transition Network, Inc. and Gary E. Jacobson, J.D. All Rights Reserved Revised 10/11/94 [AGENCY NAME] / [EMPLOYEE NAME] EMPLOYMEN...

Workers Comp policies go by the official name of 'Workers Compensation and Employers Liability policy.' With employers eager to assure their injured workers of...

EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES LIABILITY INSURANCE: BUILDING A THREE-LEGGED STOOL OF PROTECTION by Gary Griffin, ARM, and Rachel McKinney As the incidence of wrongful employment practice suits increases,...

ESTABLISH AN ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE by Gary Holgate When analyzing the organizational structure of an independent insurance agency, you will find that there are four different general functions pe...

EVALUATIONS AND COMPENSATION by Al Diamond When you mention employee evaluations in most insurance agencies, the owners begin to fidget, admitting that they do them spora...

EVERYBODYS GONE SURFIN by Jon Persky Productivity Issues Internet use in the workplace is both a necessity and a tempting distraction. In a poll commissioned by www.l...