Hiring

3 Things to Keep in Mind When Looking for a Mentor

Whether you’re considering entering a formal mentorship program or you’re scouting out potential mentors all on your own, here are three tips for leveraging your mentorship relationship to its full potential.

The Right Start: Mentors Show Rookies the Way

Last year, the Big “I” launched a pilot project that paired new independent agency owners with industry mentors capable of showing them the ropes of operational effectiveness, employee productivity and achieving goals.

4 Leadership Principles You Need to Grow Your Agency

Insurance has been influenced by both positive and negative leadership over the years. And with today’s changing technology and younger workforce, strong leadership is more important now more than ever before.

Agency Profile: Just Like Family

Employees say The Nitsche Group is like a family. But to achieve that kind of agency culture, the interview process starts before the actual interview.

Declaration of Independents: Marc Escalona

When Marc Escalona traded in his health care consulting career to become a p-c producer for an independent agency, his initial strategy was to prospect “full-throttle” in a very specific industry. Today, he considers it a mistake—and a crucial learning ex

The Best Coaching Question Ever

The greatest coaching moments are the questions: when you seek to understand your salesperson’s opinion and viewpoint before sharing your own.

Next In Line: Millennials Weigh In on Gen Z Staffers

As their immediate predecessors in the office, millennial insurance agents are ready to welcome Gen Zs into the fold. But they also have a few concerns about what it will take for this cohort to succeed as employees of the insurance industry.