Description: This article suggests the the GROW model for coaching as an investment in productivity for positive working relationships.

Description: When your goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable Realistic and Time-Based, you’ve got a good foundation for performance improvement.

Description: In this article, the author invites the readers to write in to suggest what corporate management or personal development message is implied in this article. The author uses Little League Baseball as an analogy for the corporate actuarial world.

Description: Considerations in the assessment of when to leave a job include mentorship, fit to company environment and culture, and timing.

Description: This article describes a hypothetical workplace dilemma, then invites SOA members to submit their comments and solutions. This situation deals with a mortality study and what disclosures should be made in the report on the study with regard to the treatment of reinsurance.

Description: Decision making is a life skill. You make decisions every day. Are you making good decisions? Do you know how to evaluate whether or not a decision was a good one? This article discusses some decision making methods.

Description: Article about workplace etiquette and the behaviors that irritate or impress co-workers or superiors.

Description: July 2010 issue of the Management and Personal Development Section newsletter The Stepping Stone

Description: Managing in the 21st century.

Description: THE MANAGEMENT & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT (M&PD) SECTION COUNCIL is reaching out to all section members to share their insights via written reviews of interesting business books for our third annual Business Book Review Contest.