Description: May 2020 issue of The Stepping Stone by Leadership & Development Section. practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, section activities

Description: This article identifies four root causes of poor performance and four remedies to address them that every leader should know.

Description: A personal account of how humor in the workplace improved productivity.

Description: Read the September 2020 issue of The Stepping Stone published by the Leadership & Development Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Describes the benefits of developing a personal leadership brand, including tactics and learning from others to bring our the best of your leadership abilities.

Description: The true value of any leader is measured by how much they are able to accomplish through the work of their team. Actuaries in leadership roles are no different. But, to get the most out of your teams, leaders must first focus on building a high-performance culture. One that rewards measurable success and challenges everyone to reach farther all the time. There is no easy path to building a high-performance culture, but the benefits of a leader’s efforts will pay substantial dividends for the team, the leader, and the company. This series of articles is intended to educate leaders of large and small groups on how to build a high-performance culture and achieve outstanding results.

Description: What Did He Say? by Tim Pratt from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, July 2004, Issue No. 15.

Description: This article is about how to write a compelling engagement bio, which is a personal services version of a resume.

Description: The section chair highlights that the Management and Personal Development Section not only revised their mission statement, but made great strides in delivering on their mission.

Description: The author provides strategies for orchestrating your words which in turn will help orchestrate our attitude. The words you repeat are gradually convincing your mind that these statements are true therefore, precluding your mind’s eye from seeing any possibility to prove your words wrong.