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: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 The instructor led participants in a discussion of examples of inappropriate communications and the impact on individuals and organizations. A model showing the relationship between perception and intent was demonstrated.

Description: Panelists discuss the role of an investment actuary. Focus is on the process the investment actuary uses in the job, and on working with the perspectives of the investment professionals and the product actuaries with whom the investment actuary works. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 5PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

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: Panelists discuss: [1] relationships with your reinsurer, [2] reinsurance administration, [3] setting retentions, and [4] financial reinsurance and the regulator. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about ways in which companies are responding to the need for a reduced product development time cycle: Actuarial staffing, Use of automation aids, Committee structures, Coordinating the company commitment, Market research, Use of consultants.

Description: From a Panel discussion session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panelists describe their experiences living and working outside their home countries, and discuss opportunities-and success criteria/factors-that lie ahead for global actuaries.

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: 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.

Description: Panelists explain the field of actuarial counseling, which is essentially risk management on an impartial basis for individuals. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.