Skills & Experiences

Building

Building

Building on your insurance fundamentals, appraisal expertise and experiences to date

Core Skills

Negotiation; building strong relationships (e.g. appraisal, broker / agent claims, risk management); initiative; multitasking; business communication; technical writing

Key Experiences

Inspecting risks, and determining their degree of exposure (eg. fire, crime, liability, etc.); growing comfort in recommending appropriate controls to protect clients’ interests (either mitigation, control, or loss reduction); supporting the setting of premiums based on potential exposures / controls in place; managing increasingly larger or more complex insurance needs; coordinating the development of a specialized facet or strategy included in a client’s risk management plan; supporting new product development/revisions based on loss control outcomes

Mastery

MASTERY

Transitioning to technical consultant/leader of a team of loss control specialists with increased autonomy and decision making power

Core Skills

Strategic thinking; operational leadership; change management; teaching / coaching; conflict management

Key Experiences

Supervising/developing strategies to mitigate, control, and reduce the potential impacts of risks; providing expert advice to clients, and industry professionals; leading new product development and consulting on wordings based on experiences in the loss control space; managing key accounts; supporting projects implementing new / revised underwriting rules, contingency planning / emergency preparedness strategies, systems, etc.