IAGDM, through its affiliation with NAIW provides members with numerous educational opportunities. For more details about NAIW courses listed below, please see the Professional Development section on NAIW’s website at http:/www.naiw.org. Speakers at Meetings:
IAGDM has monthly business and dinner meetings which include speakers who are experts on industry related topics, health and safety issues, legislative topics, and community services. NAIW Continuing Education Credit Course:
Underwriting for Non-Underwriters (6 CE hours)
This program covers underwriting issues and decisions in the personal lines, commercial lines, workers compensation, life/health and surety bond fields. The program answers the question, "What do underwriters need to know, and why.
Three Steps to E&O Risk Management
This four-hour seminar covers the management of errors and omissions risks in the insurance business today. It has been specifically designed to offer insight into the potential risks in agency operations that range from the first phone call to the final signature in your relationship with clients and companies. Discover areas that are often overlooked and misunderstood by both agents and clients.
Cyber Crime (6 CE hours)
This program was written exclusively for the National Association of Insurance Women (Int’l) The rapid advance of technology has changed the way all commerce is carried out. Tasking, communications,electronic data interchange (EDI) of business information, manufacturing and engineering sciences have all become more efficient because of electronic commerce. The paradigm (box of conventional wisdom) shift brought on by the swift change in technology has outpaced the talent pool of workers, the judicial system and the insurance industry. This course explores the exposures of CyberCrime (CyberRisk), the gaps in conventional insurance products in an electronic environment and the solutions for managing the risks.
Communication Skills:
Communicate with Confidence
Sessions providing training in public speaking through delivery of prepared and impromptu speeches. The course guide includes material on speech structure, vocal delivery, using gestures, lexicography, round-table and panel discussion, plus a description of the traditional, group approach to class presentation.
Advanced Communication Skills
This course focuses on how to write an informative and interesting speech to grab your audience and hold their attention plus how to deliver the speech effectively by understanding your audience and using appropriate body language. Learn how and when to use visual aids as well as how to use the group dynamic to interact with your audience. Know how to comfortably deal with the unforeseeable technical difficulty, the annoying heckler, or ringing cell phones.
Leadership and Personal Development
Leadership Development Program
Series of eight workshop sessions designed to examine the art of leadership and suggest ways the student can develop or enhance leadership skills. Participants first review current business theory regarding leadership styles and characteristics. Then, using the Personal Strengths Assessment Audit, the participant learns about her strengths and weaknesses in 12 key making, mentoring and leading change.
Leadership Savvy
Leadership Savvy is a 10.5 hour program that explores leadership. It examines not only leadership skills but gives you the opportunity to look at individuals who posses excellent leadership characteristics.
Mentors and Protégés: Sharing for Mutual Rewards
Series of eight sessions to assess need for and qualifications to become a mentor. Includes history and purposes of mentoring; descriptions of several formal mentoring programs; information about the benefits, responsibilities and concerns for mentors/protégés; describes NAIW and mentoring; and lists the steps in establishing a formal mentoring program. Also includes self-assessment tools, discussion questions and quotes about mentoring by NAIW members who have been in mentoring relationships.
Grassroots Political Action
Information to better understand and become more involved in the political process in the U.S. Includes discussion of how the political process works, how a bill becomes a law, suggestions for monitoring issues, how to contact your legislators, characteristics of an effective legislative committee and suggestions for implementing the program in your local association.
Professional Development:
How to Be a Best Seller
Series of sessions designed to help women enhance their sales skills by improving their organization, time management, decision making, goal setting, and other vital business abilities.
Rules of the Road
A seven-hour program (including lunch break) using exercises and role plays to discuss excellent customer service practices: the importance of customer service; why preparation and individual commitment are important; how to deal with customers' feelings as well as the facts; conducting effective, efficient customer interactions, and how to successfully handle angry, irate and irrational customers.
Life Insurance for CSR's
A basic education of life insurance products for insurance professionals. The course covers topics such as developing the right attitude, understanding your companies' life insurance products, riders and optional benefits, completing a life application, NAIC model illustration regulation and basic legal issues.
The I Can! Series – 30 minute innovative programs:
Programs concern the latest topics current and relative to your insurance business today. They have been specifically designed to offer insight into areas ranging from policy coverages to policy exclusions and limitations that are often overlooked or misunderstood by both agents and clients. This series will enable you to recommend client coverages with confidence and power.
Insuring the Home-based Business
Ethics: Shades of Black & White
Personal Umbrella: Rain or Shine
E&O Hot Spots: Don’t Get Burned
Wheels of Misconception
What’s Up DOC? Drive Other Car Coverage
Million Heirs: Kiddie IRA$
Three Steps to E&O Risk Management
The New Math: Education IRA$
Let’s Talk Coverage
Tax-Free Income Roth IRA$ |
