Description: May 2020 issue of The Stepping Stone by Leadership & Development Section. practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, section activities

Description: The friendly editors of the Modeling Platform detail the advantages of the new all-digital format of the newsletter.

Description: This article identifies four root causes of poor performance and four remedies to address them that every leader should know.

Description: A personal account of how humor in the workplace improved productivity.

Description: What Did He Say? by Tim Pratt from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, July 2004, Issue No. 15.

Description: The author provides strategies for orchestrating your words which in turn will help orchestrate our attitude. The words you repeat are gradually convincing your mind that these statements are true therefore, precluding your mind’s eye from seeing any possibility to prove your words wrong.

Description: Inclusive Leadership: A Conversation

Description: This article is an overview of the SOA Leadership & Development Section Council's current projects, recent accomplishments and some immediate focal points of the Leadership & Development Section Council's efforts.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved management hiring someone to make changes, then ignoring all suggestions.

Description: It is well established that empowerment of staff is a critical leadership trait. But what are the metrics to recognize that you have achieved it? What steps enable this achievement? Which psychological attributes explain its efficacy?This article proposes to answer these questions through a multi-disciplinary examination of empowerment in the context of three leadership domains.