Description: This article explores how to create influential relationships with three different entities—your direct reports, peer group and boss. Ultimately, positive influence begins with strong relationships. While maintaining authenticity, mutual respect, and integrity, it is worthwhile to develop contacts, associations and affiliations that benefit your work, organization, and career growth.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to areal life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study concerns an issue that arose while interviewing an actuarial candidate.

Description: Looking to the upcoming 2024 year and looking back at the 2023 year in the International Section.

Description: A summary about the first book club discussion on Never Split the Difference. Insights on key negotiation elements are discussed in the article.

Description: A look at how to apply knowledge of the Myers-Briggs preference pairs to communicate more effectively with those from other preferences.

Description: Learn to distinguish yourself from everyone else, starting with how you introduce yourself to networking contacts, hiring managers and executives.

Description: This article provides insights and advice on job searches and recruiting for actuarial students and candidates to get their very first job.

Description: Many firms use in-your-face feedback mechanisms; however, Harvard Business Review authors Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall argue that the most effective approaches employ open-ended questions that help employees maximize their unique strengths. Sample questions are provided so that managers can start utilizing the process as soon as they read this article.

Description: Editors note summarizing contents of the newsletter and volunteer opportunities.