All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 19 2013 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state will provide nearly $4 million in grant funding to 29 local police departments, district attorneys’ offices and other agencies in the state to combat motor vehicle theft...
Dec 17 2013 // President Barack Obama’s acknowledgement that his promise that Americans could keep their health insurance plan turned out to be inaccurate topped this year’s list of best quotes, according to a Yale University...
Dec 16 2013 // Arlington Metals Corp. in Franklin Park, Ill., has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 38 safety and health violations, which carry proposed penalties of...
Dec 16 2013 // Imagine not being able to read this article, or the directions on a medicine bottle, or the menu at a restaurant. For 32 million Americans, being unable to read is a daily reality, according to the U.S. Department of...
Dec 16 2013 // Company CultureCorporate volunteer programs are not just “feel good” activities. They’re a “win-win-win” because not only does the charity benefit, but so do the employer and the employees. In...
Dec 16 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”) conducts numerous charitable activities throughout the year. At the national association level, one of the primary charitable initiatives has...
Dec 12 2013 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Northeast division announced 16 charitable grants at its seventh annual benefit dinner on Wednesday. The total amount of the grants is $879,000.Lisa Tepper, chair of the...
Dec 11 2013 // Agency producers are not spending enough of their time on the sales-related activities that they and their managers think they ideally should.Instead they are spending more time than they think they should on...
Dec 6 2013 // After four years in Washington as the nation’s products safety czar, Inez Tenenbaum is coming home to the Columbia area, her life changed in ways large and small.“Now I’m always giving advice unsolicited...
Dec 3 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has proposed rules relating to federal health insurance exchange navigators.The rules propose criminal background checks, privacy training, proof of identity and evidence of...
Dec 3 2013 // Carrollton, Texas-based Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC), a provider of agency marketing, rating and management software and services, announced that AgentCon, its user group conference, will be held for the first...
Dec 2 2013 // Agencies involved in the sales and service of employee benefits know that the issue of errors and omissions (E&O) is very real — and that proper steps must be taken to minimize that exposure. Many in the employee...
Dec 2 2013 // Toyota Motor Cars, Toyota Production Systems, and Taichi Ohno have nearly perfected lean manufacturing techniques.TPS has been in constant pursuit of perfection since the concept of lean was introduced by Sakichi Toyoda of...
Dec 1 2013 // Small businesses won’t be able to use the federal government’s health insurance website until November 2014 in most U.S. states, the latest delay for the Obama administration’s health-care system...
Nov 25 2013 // For most lines of insurance business, commission income is growing and most insurance agents and brokers expect profits to be similar or better in 2013 compared to 2012.That’s according to the 28th Annual Market...
Nov 18 2013 // Twenty students at four Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $38,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation.The students attend St. Mary’s University in...
Nov 13 2013 // Fragile. At risk. Low income. Recent immigrant.These terms describe some of the families whose children attend Mount Kisco Child Care Center in the northern suburbs of New York City. But another term that describes these...
Nov 11 2013 // A rising number of reports about deaths, injuries and malfunctions linked to the robotic surgery system made by Intuitive Surgical Inc. may pressure hospitals to bolster training for doctors using the $1.5 million...
Nov 6 2013 // A Harahan manufacturing company has had to recruit outside Louisiana for skilled trade workers. The Laitram Corp. isn’t alone in its difficulty finding trained workers for such jobs as electricians and welders.Turner...
Nov 5 2013 // America’s European allies are being hypocritical in their complaints about the U.S. spying on them because they all have their own surveillance programs, according to two former top officials in the Clinton...