Description: A look back over the past 3 years on the MPD council.

Description: This article is the first of three parts in helping you to move forward when your career growth seems to be stalled. In this part, help you discover WHY your career has slowed and then move on to the WHAT and HOW in parts 2 and 3.

Description: To persuade successfully and non-manipulatively, it's important to understand five key principles of influence. Principle #5: A person will more likely be influenced if you help them get to the heart of the matter.

Description: Emotional Intelligence: Why you need it, and how you can increase it

Description: No matter what you do, you are in sales in some way. The word, "sales" or "selling" brings up negative connotations for many people. It may be helpful to think of it as "influence". Whether you're a sales professional, coach, consultant or executive - there are key stakeholders in your world you need to influence. To persuade successfully and non-manipulatively, it's important to understand five key principles of influence. Principle #3 is covered here.

Description: Great lessons come from bad experiences. This is a story of how I learned the importance of influence after a difficult relationship with my supervisor.

Description: Effective communication

Description: Write for your readers. That's what you can do to ensure that your emails, reports, and model updates are clear and contain the appropriate level of detail.

Description: The author explores challenges that actuaries face at work, and the typical response continuum, which includes panic, inertia, striving, coping, and mastery.

Description: This article considers ways actuaries can meet the growing demands of senior executives by redefining their role and the actuarial operating model.