Managing Your People
166 whitepapers and resources
Managing Your People
Essential safety considerations for essential workers
While non-essential businesses are closing or significantly reducing activities to keep more people at home, essential businesses look for ways to keep their workers safe and healthy. This article highlights the challenges of the current operating environment for essential businesses.
Responding to Covid-19 in insurance operations: Four key stages to accelerate recovery as the "future of work" is redefined
The insurance industry is experiencing seismic shifts in day-to-day operations stemming from Covid-19, but early signs of longer-term trends are also starting to emerge. Based on questions from insurers, this paper focuses on four key stages to accelerate recovery as the future of work is redefined.
Cyber security in the time of coronavirus
Many businesses are now planning for or actively implementing a business model involving far more remote workers than they had ever anticipated. This article provides advice on good business cyber security practices and key areas to consider when planning or deploying remote working capabilities.
With a little help from your friends: The big business benefits of Employee Resource Groups
Studies show that a diverse and welcoming work environment results in happier employees, better teamwork and greater innovation because of the wide range of experiences employees bring to the table. This article looks at the emergence of Employee Resource Groups and highlights the business benefits.
SMEs: Emerging risks - Tackling the challenges facing SMEs
SMEs may be concerned about keeping a competitive advantage, but it’s the evolving workforce challenges that can have a big impact on their success. This article focuses on some of the immediate employment challenges facing today’s SMEs including flexible working and fairness in the workplace.
Orchestrating AI
Harvard Business Review Analytics Services and EXL surveyed over 500 professionals across multiple industries to learn how AI is being implemented, where companies are in their adoption of AI, and what outcomes they have been able to drive. This document provides the first look at our study data.
Gender diversity in leadership roles
According to a Million Women Mentors whitepaper, women comprise 60 percent of the insurance industry’s workforce but only occupy 19% of board seats, 11% of named inside officer positions and 12% of top officer positions. This article explores gender diversity in leadership roles.
Property perspectives: Providing premier property protection
Unlike many who stumble into the insurance industry ‘by accident,’ Joe Moylan, Northeast Regional Underwriting Leader for AXA XL’s North America Property team set his sights on a career in insurance right from the start. Forty years on, he explains why he made the right career choice.
Take 5 with Nancy Bewlay, AXA XL's Chief Underwriting Officer, Global Casualty
Traditionally, chief underwriting officers were called into underwriting situations to make decisions on the toughest risk, however a bigger part of the role today is keeping an eye on the big picture. In this Q&A, Nancy Bewlay, AXA XL’s CUO, Global Casualty sheds light on the role of a CUO in 2019.
One in five brokers has contemplated leaving the industry due to stress
The majority of brokers admit to feeling stressed at work, many feel overwhelmed by work pressures. Workloads, regulation and pressure to hit targets are contributing to mental health issues. Ecclesiastical lifts the lid on the mental health issues facing brokers across the UK.