Description: How do you distinguish yourself and your team, and make their contributions stand out? By articulating your 'superpower' in a natural way. Learn how.

Description: Based on a decades-long study, honesty is the most important quality in a leader. This article addresses ways to establish trust with their co-workers.

Description: Business leadership lessons from non-business leaders: interpersonal skills and people management

Description: A health actuary describes her journey as a parent of a child with medical needs, and the complexities associated with navigating the health insurance industry.

Description: To persuade successfully and non-manipulatively, it’s important to understand five key principles of influence. In this four-part series, I’ll be covering these five principles that are based on human psychology and behavior. Let’s look at the first two now.

Description: The Stepping Stone issue 60, November 2015

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Description: This article focuses on how a manager should focus on 'influencing' to get their team to be as high-performing as possible.

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.

Description: The author shares a template for how to ensure speaking leads to business and career opportunities.