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Front Line Leader Training: Vital Preparation for a Key Career Transition

Has the focus of leadership development in organisations shifted too far from front line leader training? In this third article from David North, he explores the risks of providing insufficient support during this critical career transition.

Another successful engagement

We are delighted to have enjoyed another successful joint workshop with the team at AXA XL, this time in their offices in New York.

Invest in developing the capability of your people? Can you afford not to?

As an insurance leader, what would make you invest your time and budget in improving the capability of your staff? In this article we share some insights from discussions we have had with a number of senior insurance leaders over the past 12 months where they share what would make them invest.

Making a long term difference in a short term world; realising the potential of learning and development

In this article, David North shares his experience from 40 years in the industry of how to ensure any development activities have the maximum chance of ensuring a long term sustainable difference in behaviours.

Are your Trading Relationships Blooming?

Earlier this year, we carried out a short piece of research to get a ‘temperature check’ of the trading capability that currently exists across UK insurance companies to build and make effective use of broker and client relationships to support the achievement of business targets. This article looks at some of the headline findings.

Insurance Times Awards 2017 – Excellence in Training

MAP Training Director, Alan Thompson, was delighted to attend the Insurance Times Awards 2017 at the Intercontinental O2 in London on Thursday 7th December, as a guest of one of our clients, Covéa Insurance.

Six ways to develop an underwriter

In this article, one of our Directors, Peter Turrell, draws upon his many years’ experience to consider how best to develop an underwriter

Multinational Programmes – What’s the secret to success?

Alex Land, Senior Associate at MAP Training, draws upon her extensive experience of Multinational Insurance business to highlight the keys to writing and managing successful Multinational Insurance programmes.

Embedding new skills

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action” – this is a quote from Herbert Spencer, a Nobel Prize Winner back in 1902. This may have been said over 100 years ago but bears as much relevance today as always. In order to maximise any investment in training it is crucial that the trainees get the opportunity to make use of their newly acquired skills and knowledge and take action to do things differently. How well do you think the insurance industry ensures learning is utilised to obtain maximum value? This article looks at the findings from our recent research study and highlights some key points that should be borne in mind when any company invests in training and development programmes for their staff.

Training – The Chain Of Destruction

As an industry, do companies operating in insurance maximise their return on training investment? In this article, our views are combined with other leading industry experts, to explore where we see the value of training investment being destroyed and what you can do to maximise your return.