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History
Mission
The mission of the Management and Personal Development Section shall be to plan,
implement and actively promote management and business skill development for
members, using a variety of channels.
The key objectives of the section will be to:
- Provide tools to facilitate personal career development
- Provide results-oriented skills and knowledge for current and developing managers
- Build a bridge from technical knowledge to decision making and its implementation
- Develop educational opportunities and provide resources for all actuaries who strive to become more effective managing members within their business organizations
- Offer opportunities to network, enhance management practices and experience professional feedback.
- Historical Topic Coverage Chart
- Communication
- Problem Solving & Decision Making
- Interpersonal Skills
- Management & Administration
- Leadership
- Business Techniques & Practices
- Career Planning
- Historical Summary of Sessions
- Informal Communications—Oral and Written
- Effective Meetings
- Formal Presentations
- Effective Listening
- Technical Reports
- Persuasive Memos
- Problem Definition
- Analysis
- Research
- Planning
- Organizing Resources
- Resolution
- Project Management
- Effective Relationships
- Persuasion
- Negotiation
- Conflict Resolution
- Objectives
- Expectations
- Training
- Development
- Delegation
- Supervision
- Feedback
- Coaching
- Evaluation
- Rewards
- Initiative
- Drive
- Motivation
- Inspiration
- Perspective
- Judgment
- Creativity
- Innovation
- Vision
- Ethics/Character
- Team Building
- Marketing (including International)
- Strategic Planning
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Timeline of Historical Sessions
- 1988
- Effective Business Writing (Spring)
- Managing a Project (Spring)
- Roles and Goals of an Effective Manager (Fall)
- Managing for Excellence: Annual Review (Spring)
- How to develop your Business Judgment (Fall)
- Corporate Mgmt Game (CMG)—Business Problems involving Benefit Issues (Spring)
- Out in the Cold—Mergers and Acquisitions (Fall)
1989- Managing for Excellence: Selling Your Ideas (Spring)
- Managing Conflict (Fall)
- CMG (Spring)
- Marketing 101 (Fall)
1990- Whole-Brain Problem Solving (Spring)
- CMG (Spring)
- Management, Disney Style (Fall)
- International Business Techniques (Fall)
1991- Effective Listening (Spring)
- Communication Skills in the Public Forum (Spring)
- Realities of Influencing Public Policy (Spring)
- Time Management (Fall)
- Dynamics of Managing Change (Fall)
- Strategic Planning (Fall)
- Non-Traditional Career Alternatives (Fall)
- Consulting (Fall)
1992- Communicating to Management (Spring)
- Effective Meeting Management (Spring)
- Managing Diversity: Staff Development for the 21st Century (Fall)
- Demand Better Results (Fall)
- Ethics (Spring)
- Paradigm Shifts (Fall)
- Service Excellence—What does this mean for Actuaries? (Spring)
- Managing Organizational Changes (Fall)
1993- Secrets to Better Writing Skills (Spring)
- Grinders, Minders & Finders (Managing Clients and Projects Successfully) (Spring)
- Grinders, Minders & Finders (Spring)
- Goal Setting & Achievement (Spring)
- Effective Team Play (Spring)
- Ethics (Spring)
- CMG (Fall)
- Sr. Executive Officer Forum (Fall)
- Skills Inventory & Career Development (Fall)
1994 (Spring)- Re-engineering—Optimizing your Efforts (Orlando)
- Re-engineering & Human Resources (San Antonio and San Francisco)
- Managing Technical Professionals (San Antonio and San Francisco)
- Global Market Place (Orlando)
- Re-engineering through Team Syntegration (Orlando)
1994 (Fall: Chicago)- Business Ethics—Theory and Practice
- Sr. Executive Officer Ethics
- Personal Skills Inventory (Fall)
1995 (Spring)- Effective Bus Relations Across the Border (New Orleans, New York and Vancouver)
- Removing the Blinders—Shape Change to Your Advantage (New Orleans, NY & Vancouver)
1995 (Fall: Boston)- Is Everybody Happy? A Management Perspective
- Strategic Planning (Fall)
- Career Development Olympics
- CEO Forum—Actuaries in Non Traditional Roles
1996 (Spring)- Seek First to Understand—Listening (Marco Island and Colorado Springs)
- Seek First to Understand—Empathy (Marco Island and Colorado Springs)
- Building Strategic Thinking Skills (Marco Island and Colorado Springs)
1996 (Fall—Orlando)- That's not my style—Myers-Briggs
- Navigating Stormy Seas
- Opportunity in Diversity
1997 (Spring)- Managerial Decision Making (Palm Desert)
- Art of Leading (Montreal)
1997 (Fall—Washington D.C.)- See You in Court
- Stop Managing, Start Coaching
- Life Company Trends—Chief Actuaries
- Balanced Scorecard
- The Actuary's Career Planner (ACP)
1998 (Spring) Sessions doubled up (Health and Financial Reporting due to location—Hawaii)- Turning Technicians in to Managers (Hawaii)
- Leadership Development (Hawaii)
- The ACP (Hawaii)
1998 (Fall: New York)- Technical Writing
- 360 Degree Feedback
- Managing the Merger of Two Organizations
- The ACP
1999 (Spring)- Breakfast (Atlanta & Seattle)
- That Drives Me Nuts—Working Better with Others (Atlanta)
- Managing Difficult Employees (Atlanta)
- Managing the Process of Change (Seattle)
- The ACP (Atlanta & Seattle)
- You Have Arrived! Now What? (Seattle)
1999 (Fall—San Francisco)- That Drives Me Nuts—Working Better with Others
- Effective Interviewing
- Employee Retention—Keeping the Keepers
- The Actuary as CEO
- Values, Ethics and the Lone Ranger (Luncheon)
- Executive Training for Actuaries
- The ACP
- The Mentor / Mentee Relationship—Y2K and Beyond
2000 (Spring)- Breakfast (Las Vegas & San Diego)
- Learning to Listen (Las Vegas)
- Appropriate / Inappropriate Communications: "What Did I Say?" (San Diego)
- Project Management for Actuaries (San Diego)
- Focusing on What Really Matters (San Diego)
- Saying No (Las Vegas)
- Does My Style Increase My Likelihood of Success—Myers-Briggs (Las Vegas)
- Effective Negotiation (Las Vegas)
- Marketing Yourself within Your Own Organization (San Diego)
2000 (Fall: Chicago)- Presentation Skills
- Tele-Commuting
- Dress For Success
- Influencing Without Authority
- Profit Patterns—Where We'll Make our Profits in the Future
- The ACP
2001 (Spring)- Thinking on Your Feet (Dallas)
- Employment Across Borders (Dallas and Toronto)
- Managing an Actuarial Practice (Dallas)
- The Actuary's Career Planner (Dallas and Toronto)
- Develop Your Staff (Dallas and Toronto)
- Time / Life Management (Dallas and Toronto)
- Organizational Structure (Dallas and Toronto)
- Successful Communication with Investment Professionals (Toronto)
- Fitting Your Work Style to Your Company (Toronto)
2001 (Fall: New Orleans)- Creating Your Personal Mission
- Personal Missions: The Guide to Claiming Your Passion for Life and Work
- Managing Diversity in the Workplace
- The Magic of Conflict
- Business Writing for Actuaries
- Use Your Actuarial Knowledge to Develop Non-conventional Job Opportunities
2002 (Spring)- Managing Students (San Francisco and Colorado Springs)
- Mentoring Professional Development (San Fran. and Colorado Springs)
- Skills for New Supervisors (San Fran. and Colorado Springs)
- Creativity and Brainstorming (San. Fran. and Colorado Springs)
- Career Stallers (San Fran. and Colorado Springs)
- Process Re-engineering (San Fran.)
- Effective Meetings (Colorado Springs)
2002 (Fall: Boston)- Strategic and Situational Leadership
- Recruiting the Best People
- Communicating with Analysts and Rating Agencies
- Stressors and Ways to Cope
- Image, Presence, and Self-Branding
- A CEO/CFO Panel: How to Become One
2003 (Spring)
2003 (Fall)
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