Description: As leaders and managers, we have results to achieve. To get those results, we have to do the right things. Those “things” include the management and deployment of our resources.

Description: How you can use your motivation and persistence to become an optimist.

Description: Servant leadership article in the series.

Description: Building community within an organization encompasses many activities, but here are three basic practices of great leaders.

Description: Six pointers about career advancement for actuaries, based on real life experiences from my 47 year career.

Description: A summary for the book club discussion on Ideal Team Player.

Description: This is the third in a four-part series dedicated to strategies for improving EQ, based on the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 written by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves. In previous issues of The Stepping Stone, I discussed the skills of self-awareness and self-management. In this article, I will share a few more of the book’s strategies and provide examples and personal insights to illustrate how to develop the third skill of social awareness in personal, social, and business situations.

Description: This article addresses how to best use body language to one's advantage

Description: What it takes to lead teams is significantly different from what it takes to excel as an individual contributor. A leader's first mistakes is to think they have to do the same things they did before just with more volume and greater speed. Leading a team requires a transition to new behaviors and mindset. This article attempts to give you a few ideas to make the transition from leading yourself to leading others

Description: Interviews with industry leaders. This is the first interview of the series.