Description: This session 60PD of Dallas Spring Meeting covers a checklist of how-tos and how not-tos, in the various areas of the operation, such as: structuring your practice, setting business objectives and market strategies, evaluating human and technical resource needs, understanding client needs, keeping up to date with the competition and new ideas, time and financial management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 60PD

Description: This teaching session, number 37TS, was presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The instructors ask: “Are you responsible for the completion of work that requires the assistance of people you have no authority over? How do you get things done if you're not in charge and can't do it all yourself? Do you have peers, project team members, and at least one boss who impacts the results you are able to achieve? To be more effective, how can you enlist the help of others who do not report to you?” Discussion from participants is included. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is a section meeting from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The speaker, an author and the Walter H. Carpenter Professor of Management at Babson College, describes powerful new techniques for cutting through interdepartmental barriers and motivating people over whom you have no authority to lend your support, to lend you their support. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 Instructors share insights into how actuaries can successfully market themselves within their own organizations to enhance their effectiveness and receive the acknowledgment, professional respect, and recognition they deserve.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. In this session, which was part lecture and park audience participation, the human side of re-engineering was explored. Topics included: • Involving persons beyond the immediate department in the planning process. • Developing an implementation plan. • Building trust and understanding. • Understanding resistance and overcoming it. • Recognizing that re-engineering is a long-term process.