Description: If you want to increase your managerial success, focus on improving your coaching skills rather than your managerial skills. What is the difference between managing and coaching? In its simplest sense, a manager focuses on himself. A coach focuses on others. From The Stepping Stone, April 2005, Issue No. 18.

Description: Men and women have different leadership skills. But working alongside men, women can effectively leverage their leadership strengths to bolster their careers.

Description: Your Biggest Business Risk? It May Be Your Next Hire By Jennifer L. Gillespie from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, October 2004, Issue No. 16.

Description: A letter to the editor of Stepping Stone regarding working relationships on the job and suggestions for alternative approaches.

Description: Reader responses to the real life case involving a management, leadership or other business situation an actuary faced, that was presented in the May 2013 issue.

Description: Two of the greatest challenges a leader faces are knowing how to build a high-performance team to achieve superior results and then instituting the mechanisms necessary to actually create that team. "Managing with Metrics" is one of several key areas that a manager must focus on. In addition, "Managing with Metrics" applies equally to the team as a whole, as well as its individual members

Description: Discusses the processes of setting effective objective and development plans

Description: Effective Meeting Management by Charles R. Haskins from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, March 2000, Issue No. 3.

Description: Interview with author and speaker Chris Edmonds on how actuaries in managerial roles can become great bosses based on Chris' book, "How to Be a Great Boss."

Description: Actuaries must be able to present compelling arguments to win over their audience. For the first time, they may be managing a staff looking for direction, making recommendations to senior leaders, or trying to persuade non-actuarial colleagues who see the world differently. This series of articles is intended to educate young actuarial professionals on key business influencing skills that will be beneficial in the near term as well as throughout their careers. Part 1 is focused on leading and influencing a team.