Description: This article provides suggestions for boosting up your career in the new year including dedicating specific time slots to your goals which will ensure that you travel along your career path quicker and to more fulfilling destinations.

Description: This article will be looking at key leadership principles which help in understanding how someone responds at different levels of tension. The article identifies the five levels of tension and the accompanying physical, tonal and verbal cues. These principles are from the ChangeWorks and MasterStream systems developed by T. Falcon Napier.

Description: A book review of The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker.

Description: The article provides a general description of the DISC assessment, and how it can be used in your professional and personal life.

Description: This article describes a hypothetical workplace dilemma. Suggested solutions and feedback are provided in the next issue of Stepping Stones. From the April 2010 issue of Stepping Stones.

Description: Nobody is perfect, and actuaries are no exception. At some point, every actuary is bound to make a big mistake. These kinds of mistakes can have a significant impact on an actuary's reputation — whether that impact is positive or negative depends in large part on the way someone investigates, communicates, and resolves errors they uncover. By approaching mistakes with transparency and honesty, these big mistakes can actually enhance credibility and reputation, rather than harm it.

Description: Practical application of Marine Corps leadership in a corporate setting. This article covers the objectives of Marine Corps Leadership and 14 leadership traits identified by the Corps and how they relate to an actuarial setting.

Description: Article presents the basic terminology and theory of attribution theory, the theory explaining the causes that people attribute their successes and failures to. The article reviews i) typical attributions(e.g. effort, luck), ii) dimensions of attribution (controllability, stability), iii) useful and non-useful attributions, and iv) attribution retraining and v) other aspects of the theory (such as accompanying emotions)