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Is Your Compensation Good Enough to be Accountable?
Is Your Compensation Good Enough to be Accountable?

It's certainly one of the easiest ways to kill two birds with one stone. No one wants to tell someone they're not doing a good job, that's why accountability can be a tricky thing. Even worse, no one really wants to not pay someone because of that la...

Posted: Jul 30, 2018

How to Make Everyone Want to Show Up for Insurance
How to Make Everyone Want to Show Up for Insurance

It's not the easiest thing to do for the people buying it or the agents selling it. There's a good chance it might all come down to communication and how much may or may not be happening. It's always the person who has something to say that's respons...

Posted: Jul 27, 2018

Are You Good Enough to Make an Emotional Sale?
Are You Good Enough to Make an Emotional Sale?

It's real easy to talk yourself into thinking you talk too much about insurance. The truth is, it's what you do best and it's really hard to give people too many facts about it. However, one thing that usually goes dramatically overlooked is your abi...

Posted: Jul 26, 2018

How Successful Can Your Marketing Be?
How Successful Can Your Marketing Be?

You really have to set the right expectations before you can find out. Because if you haven't taken the time to figure it out, there's a good chance you'll never know. Once that question has been answered you can figure out where the help should come...

Posted: Jul 24, 2018

No One Still Wants to Request a Quote
No One Still Wants to Request a Quote

Because if they do, they're not really sure what they'll get. That uncertainty is what needs eliminated for any progress to be made. More work has to be done, language changed and expectations elevated (get it). Once they are it becomes a lot more ex...

Posted: Jul 23, 2018

The Untold Stories of Elevate 2018
The Untold Stories of Elevate 2018

It's pretty easy to say there are few experience that compare to what happen in Cleveland a few weeks ago. We've all been dealing with the aftermath in our own way, however after a couple of days as legendary as that, we had to get together and talk...

Posted: Jul 20, 2018

The Agony of Rising to the Insurance Mindset Challenge
The Agony of Rising to the Insurance Mindset Challenge

Can be excruciating or possibly the greatest thing you've ever done. Honestly, the choice is yours initially. However, as you start to see what's involved it should become painfully obvious. When you rise to the Insurance Mindset Challenge, you're re...

Posted: Jul 19, 2018

Do Your Tough Decisions Have the Best Chance to Succeed?
Do Your Tough Decisions Have the Best Chance to Succeed?

If you're going to do something dramatic, you minds well go all in. It doesn't matter if it means moving office locations, encouraging people not to show up there or deciding once and for all who your best client is. Taking that decision to the the n...

Posted: Jul 17, 2018

What Happens When You Suddenly Don't See Diversity?
What Happens When You Suddenly Don't See Diversity?

It should mean we've finally made it to a place where it's not even close to the first thing we think about. It would actually cease to be a topic of discussion and occupy a level of normality never seen before. It's something that some of us have to...

Posted: Jul 16, 2018

What Happens When You Suddenly Don't See Diversity?
What Happens When You Suddenly Don't See Diversity?

Posted: Jul 16, 2018