Description: The article considers the myths related to busyness and how we can better manage the busyness effect on us and those around us.

Description: Coaching has helped people in various walks of life progress towards their goals, and this article will explore its applicability for the actuarial professional. It will describe the coaching model in full, and look at the effort that is invested into the relationship between coach and client, and the results a coaching client can expect to achieve. Real-life case studies are included to help readers determine if coaching is beneficial for them at this point in their career.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved whether an employee who turned in her resignation should consider a counterproposal by her boss.

Description: The article covers the definition of a strength, how to recognize strengths and block weaknesses, how to perform a strengths self-assessment, and ways to effectively describe our strengths to others.

Description: in the November 2015 edition of The Stepping Stone, executive coach Marcel Schwantes outlined how great leaders display authenticity—one of the foundations of effective servant leadership. Here Schwantes returns for part two of a six-part series that delves into the best practices of how a servant leader values people.

Description: This is the second article in a three-part series focused on the "Do Nothing" leadership approach presented by Professor J. Keith Murnighan, a professor at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Description: The latest installment in a series that applies Buddhist principles to actuarial practice. This particular installment focuses on the author's recent experience in recovering from serious injury, the lessons from Buddhism learned during that process, and the parallels of healing to the challenges actuaries face when businesses or processes are "broken".

Description: Strategies for providing clarity to your work team

Description: Servant leadership article in the series.