All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 17 2012 // Work is under way on what might be one of the most unique construction projects ever done in Middle Georgia.For years, the whisper of the wind around vacant buildings has been about the only thing to be heard at the former...
Feb 16 2012 // The owner of a website that launched an attack last week against a consumer group that often does battle with the insurance industry is now calling the attacks and information he put on the site “just the tip of the...
Feb 16 2012 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has proposed a once-a-year sales tax holiday on weather radios, flashlights, generators and other supplies needed to help prepare for weather disasters.Bentley made the proposal at a news...
Feb 16 2012 // Golf could be called the go-to sport of the insurance industry, so it’s safe to assume that most insurance professionals know what a putter is – a tool for cursing and hurling to the ground after a missed shot,...
Feb 9 2012 // Heffernan Financial Services, a division of Heffernan Insurance Brokers, has promoted Rebecca Tapia to education and communication specialist. In Tapia’s new role, she will be working with retirement plan sponsors...
Feb 9 2012 // Republican legislative leaders say they took away from Gov. John Kasich’s State of the State speech a renewed focus on bolstering training programs for Ohio workers, answering the governor’s call to find ways...
Feb 8 2012 // New York, NY, 2/8/12 – ReSource Pro LLC, the premier provider of business processing solutions for the insurance industry, announced today that the members of its Productivity Solutions Group will join Assurex Global...
Feb 6 2012 // Defying two recessions, the nonprofit sector posted a remarkable 10-year record of job growth, achieving an average annual growth rate of 2.1 percent from 2000 to 2010, while for-profit jobs declined by an average of minus...
Feb 6 2012 // With many challenges facing the insurance industry — such as competition from banks and other brokerages, as well as direct marketing to consumers — it takes a flexible and engaged producer to adapt and understand what...
Jan 26 2012 // Insurance distribution is changing and agents and brokers—retailers and wholesalers—have to define the value they offer and what type of relationships they will have with carriers and customers in the years ahead,...
Jan 23 2012 // For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to provide disabled veterans with employment in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal...
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance agents James R. Pender and Gary V. Trippe, principals with Ft. Myers, Florida-based BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co., have experienced disability in their own families. That has been part of their motivation for...
Jan 23 2012 // Golf could be called the go-to sport of the insurance industry, so it’s safe to assume that most insurance professionals know what a putter is – a tool for cursing and hurling to the ground after a missed shot,...
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance agents James R. Pender and Gary V. Trippe, principals with Ft. Myers, Florida-based BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co., have experienced disability in their own families. That has been part of their motivation for...
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance is the lifeblood of our capitalist society; without it commerce cannot function. A vibrant insurance industry requires skilled and trained knowledgeable workers who can understand the broad aspects of risk in a...
Jan 23 2012 // Retail and wholesale brokers face the challenge — and opportunity — of redefining their relationships and value proposition in today’s changing insurance distribution world, according to Glenn Hargrove,...
Jan 23 2012 // The talent war is not new but today the insurance industry is under heavy pressure to come up with a more successful strategy.The insurance industry workforce is old. The average age of an insurance industry professional...
Jan 20 2012 // A recent study from the Small Business Administration suggests there is a strong correlation between self-employment and past military experience. Veterans are at least 45 percent more likely to start their own businesses...
Jan 19 2012 // The cruise ship disaster off Italy’s coast is drawing fresh scrutiny to the gaps in international safety rules and standards – yet there may be little appetite among the world’s major shipping nations and...
Jan 19 2012 // One of the things Shane Crockett loved about being in the military was the sense of purpose he felt on the job every day, something he said was missing from his first post-military job as an engineer.So like the veteran he...