Description: This webcast will focus on a multi-option approach to develop talent within your organization. We’ll talk about supporting a culture of growth, developing a growth plan, engaging support for that plan and leveraging your development work to advance your career. To the managers in the audience (and anyone who aspires to this role), engaging your talent is one key way to ensure retention, especially with high performing/high potential team members. Growth opportunities keep top talent engaged and motivated. We will cover the benefits of investing in talent development for the organization and employees and I’ll share some practical options for you, too. By the end of the presentation, attendees will be equipped with actionable insights to help them develop their own action plans, and managers will have their own insights around the importance of supporting these plans to retain their top talent.

Description: Investigate the importance of collaboration with accounting, underwriting, sales, marketing and other professions as an actuary when you attend this webcast. Cross-functional positions can cause unique challenges to arise, like various experts attempting to balance growth and profitability. Discover an opportunity to learn about relevant ASOPs and dive deeper into contemporary examples that highlight specific professionalism issues that can develop.

Description: This webcast focuses on a systematic approach to developing others, no matter where they are in their career. Not focused on advice or instruction giving, but facilitating a conversation for the individual to identify their own goals and the best way to go achieve them. The foundational belief is that the answers all lie within the individual.

Description: In this real life case study, an actuarial candidate tried to get the hiring manager to increase the level of the position for which she was interviewing. Did that raise red flags about her candidacy? A compilation of reader responses is presented, along with what actually happened.

Description: A regularly occurring column in this Leadership and Development Section publication, it is a platform for the Section Chairperson to communicate with the readership regarding upcoming important topics that this Section will focus on in the current year. This article provides an overview of the new plan of focus for the newly-elected Leadership and Development Section Council for 2023.

Description: This article is the result of the Leadership & Development book club on Dare Lead. The article talks about major themes in the book and relates them to other podcasts and authors thought on those themes.