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... your agency here. The most comprehensive online insurance industry reference library for - Personal Lines Professionals Commercial Lines Professionals Life/Health & Benefits Professionals Online newsletters and content that you can use for your clients and social media efforts. Ability to attach leads and clients to your specific market searches, with e-mail alerts for all the market, articles, blogs and people searches you make. And much more! All Articles by CompleteMarkets Editor Monetization type: None Comments (0 ) There are no comments posted. x No Thanks Loading.. Loading. ... checklists, tip sheets, sales letters, and more! Communications Marketing Customer Service Planning Finance/Accounting Risk Management Human Resources Selling Legal and E&O Technology Life/Financial Services Glossaries Management Resources & Links Categories Popular Recent All Back Hardening P/C Market Shouldn'T Stop Growth In Life/Health Sales 4/30/2013 10:36:34 PM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Emily Huling This content has not been rated yet. HARDENING P/C MARKET SHOULDN'T STOP GROWTH IN LIFE/HEALTH SALES by Emily Huling A lot ... standard of service. Give your clients no reason to doubt that you can deliver. As your clients' businesses grow and their needs change, learn their objectives so you can assist them in managing their own risk. Maybe it's time for a client to hire a loss control specialist or human resources administrator. These changes affect their insurance program needs. Maintaining strong interpersonal relationships is at the core of creating trust. People want to do business with people who care about them and are active in their world. Frequent client contact by ...

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... your agency here. The most comprehensive online insurance industry reference library for - Personal Lines Professionals Commercial Lines Professionals Life/Health & Benefits Professionals Online newsletters and content that you can use for your clients and social media efforts. Ability to attach leads and clients to your specific market searches, with e-mail alerts for all the market, articles, blogs and people searches you make. And much more! All Articles by Al Diamond Monetization type: None Comments (0 ) There are no comments posted. x No Thanks Loading.. Loading. ... friends and acquaintances to your agency. These are still customer referrals — even if you don't write the account. EXAMPLE An agency that boasted of high service and referral rates found that the total number of referrals in a six-month study was less than 15. The agent stopped the study at this point and retrained and/or replaced the entire service staff over the next two quarters. We conducted a similar study 12 months later and found that the number of referrals had grown to 15 each month! Obviously, if you can identify ... of active customers in the agency at the end of any month, start with the next month and keep an accurate count of lost customers in each of your departments (Personal Lines, Commercial Lines, etc.) . Make sure your staff records the reasons for loss. Death and retirement (moving) are perfectly reasonable reasons for no longer being insured — nonpayment is not! Treat every nonpayment customer (not just a policy) loss as a preventable loss to the agency. The reason that the customer left is that they ...

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... Financial Services Glossaries Management Resources & Links Categories Popular Recent All Back How To Get Extraordinary Performance From Ordinary People 5/15/2015 12:00:00 AM by Don Phin This content has not been rated yet. According to Dr. Rollin Glaser, a specific formula can be followed to improve employee performance. It affects five basic areas: Goal setting Delegating Training and development Coaching and counseling Performance appraisal interviewing Having litigated performance issues for the past 15 years, I can tell you that Glaser is right on the money. ... . Identify specific training activities necessary to meet the needs. Training needs can be divided between high tech and high touch. There are excellent computer-based training modules-and soon, online training modules-that can be used to shore up technical skills, but it would be a mistake to stop there. According to research done by Daniel Goldberg (The E.Q. Factor) and others, employees' ability to relate and communicate is as important to their success and your organization's success as their technical skills. This type of training requires instructor-led, team-based interaction ... ' It may be that someone who didn't have the necessary skills to succeed was hired, there wasn't enough delegation of authority for people to move forward quickly, or other possibilities. This crucial step in analysis is often overlooked by management, exposing the company to business losses and a savvy attack in the courtroom. If you want your managers to ask this question first, create a culture that allows them to do so. Managers are human, too. None of them want to take any blame for what's not going right. ...

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