Description: How you can use your motivation and persistence to become an optimist.

Description: Interview with Darryl Button on leadership topics.

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 or not to extend an offer to a strong candidate, after a comment from the CEO.

Description: Professional Development tips in the area of business networking and relationship development. Increase your industry knowledge, expand your network by learning to comfortably engage with others in purposeful relevant conversations at business events.

Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management challenge between 3 actuaries. Readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?"

Description: How to apply the principles of building influence to networking meetings and interviews.

Description: This is the third in a four-part series dedicated to strategies for improving EQ, based on the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 written by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves. In previous issues of The Stepping Stone, I discussed the skills of self-awareness and self-management. In this article, I will share a few more of the book’s strategies and provide examples and personal insights to illustrate how to develop the third skill of social awareness in personal, social, and business situations.

Description: Six pointers about career advancement for actuaries, based on real life experiences from my 47 year career.

Description: A summary for the book club discussion on Ideal Team Player.

Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision, and readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?" This issue’s case study involved a tricky decision faced by a hiring manager as to whether or not to extend a job offer.