Description: Cassie He and Linda Liu, two actuarial students, invite Mark Freedman, the President-Elect of SOA to share with us his experience as an actuary, the challenges and opportunities facing actuaries and the outlook for the profession as SOA president.

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: How ‘good-enough’ can be better than reaching for the very best.

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

Description: The Stepping Stone, the newsletter of the Management and Personal Development Section. August 2014 entire issue.

Description: The Stepping Stone issue 60, November 2015

Description: In this interactive teaching session, number 115TS at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries held October 17-20 in San Francisco, the instructor discusses how businesses are seeking to improve retention. This session examines the costs of employee turnover, and trends, concepts, and practices presently producing results to reduce it. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel discusses how best to outsource to informed consultants and to other company personnel. Senior industry practitioners provide valuable insight into the most effective use of actuaries and management consultants, Actuaries Online, reinsurers, technologies, and the legal profession.

Description: Digests of following discussions: 1. Mutual life insurance companies - their objectives and operating philosophy 2. State, provincial, and municipal employee pension plans - financing and other problems 3. Mortality and underwriting of individual policies for large amounts 4. Investing during the 1970's 5. Long-range viability and regulation of corporate pension plans 6. Forecasting the environment for business 7. Liabilities and surplus in the 1970's 8. Changing modes of family life - work and income over the life cycle 9. The role of the actuary in collective bargaining 10. Health insurance in the United States 11. Adjusted earnings

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Panelists share insights and techniques that have worked for them in managing the balance between keeping students productive while fostering exam success.