Tag: Accountability

Episode 246: Your Core Values Define Your Agency

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Have you defined your core values for your agency?

Delving into the crucial role of core values in businesses, particularly agency businesses. I cannot stress enough that core values shape an organization’s culture and identity, influencing everything from hiring decisions to conflict resolution. Through insightful examples and practical tips, I reveal the significance of living and embodying core values within a team, while emphasizing the impact of core values on brand perception and community engagement.

Join us as I explore the 3-step process of defining and integrating core values, and how they contribute to creating a better business culture and leadership.

Highlights:

  • Core values in business for personal and professional success.
  • How core values shape discipline, rewards, and training in the insurance agency business. Time and effort are needed to develop, share, and implement core values.
  • Foundation for an organization’s future success and should be more than just words on a wall.
  • Ownership, core values, personal & organizational level, attitudes & behaviors, impact organization.
  • Consistently reinforced through praise, recognition, and discipline.
  • Start with brainstorming, then narrow down core values in a 1-on-1 session.

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
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Episode 240: Speaking Your Future Into Existence Through Accountability with Podcast Partner Joel McKinley

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Why do Joel and I emphasize the importance of continuous improvement and personal growth within our coaching programs? We dive deep into the powerful impact of speaking things into existence and the essential role of accountability in achieving personal and professional success. Sharing valuable insights on setting and achieving long-term goals, promoting personal accountability, building trust, and providing coaching for growth and development. Get ready to be empowered and inspired as we explore the transformative potential of accountability in crafting a clear vision and taking intentional actions to make your dreams a reality.

Highlights:

  • Encouragement to aim higher and reach full potential.
  • Accountability and leadership in organizations.
  • Discussing goals, obstacles, and resources in a growth session with potential agent.
  • Retired army veteran finds new purpose in coaching and mentoring others.
  • Role-play calls with advice on critiquing recordings to improve communication and sales skills.
  • Weekly sessions focus on asking meaningful questions to help others clarify and reassess their situations, enabling them to move forward confidently.
  • Program offers direct accountability, guidance, and support to reach desired goals.
  • Setting goals and accountability leads to progress and motivation, as evidenced by a story about a bike ride and the desire to repeat it.

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
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Episode 234: Consistently On Priority

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Consistency is the word of today’s episode. Breaking down the subject of consistency and its impact on achieving personal and professional goals. I share valuable insights and lessons from my recent experience working with independent insurance agents. Emphasizing the importance of accountability and self-discipline in building consistency in our lives. Drawing inspiration from a successful consultant in 1918 and Apple’s transformation under Steve Jobs, I unveil a powerful strategy for prioritization that can propel us toward greater productivity and success.

Highlights:

  • Simple rules guide complex behavior, fewer priorities lead to better work and output.
  • Plan your day the night before with a list of 6 tasks.
  • Consistency is key to achieving personal and professional goals.
  • Lack of consistency is the number one reason for not achieving goals.
  • Focus, discipline, and consistency lead to success. Priorities and results are crucial.

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
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Episode 215: Untapped Revenue for You with Maura Perkins

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Is your company missing out on untapped revenue opportunities?

Today I am thrilled to be joined by our guest Maura Perkins. Maura is the President of Sagacious Insurance Services and is a seasoned insurance broker with 36 years of brokerage experience. We discuss untapped revenue opportunities for insurance agents and highlight the importance of sharing knowledge and fostering a culture of openness. Maura shares services offered by Sagacious, a company that helps businesses with hiring, onboarding, and compliance with state and federal laws. The conversation also covers the importance of having a unique selling point and providing excellent customer service.

Highlights:

  • Maura aims to increase revenue & profitability of clients’ businesses while complying with state laws.
  • With clients asking for extra services but didn’t want to pay she was able to identify a gap in the market for small to medium-sized business HR services, compliance, and support.
  • Sagacious helps with hiring and onboarding employees, employee benefits, policy changes, payroll, workers comp, improvement plans, terminations, and on-site meetings.
  • Effort pays off for Sagacious, a unique offer, and a committed team differentiates them.
  • Maura plans for steady growth and intends to sell the business in 10-15 years, while focusing on commercial and life insurance rather than personal lines or group benefits.

About our Guest:

Maura Perkins, President of Sagacious Insurance Services, is a seasoned insurance broker with 36 years of brokerage experience.  Having worked for a various sized agencies in the past, she had the experience to start her own insurance brokerage with her own business model.  Sagacious Insurance Services began in 2012 offering all lines of insurance to provide a full offering of products to clients.  Many small to medium sized business were asking the agency for HR related support services.  A client need was discovered and Sagacious now offers HR support services to their clients as a Fee for Service model.  This podcast provides information on services agency’s may be performing for free and lend ideas on how your agency can adopt a similar revenue stream.  Are you leaving money on the table?

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Website: http://unstoppableprofitproducer.com/

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Email [email protected]

Podcast: http://unstoppableprofitpodcast.com

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In Person Training: http://beunstoppablebootcamp.com

Episode 208: Planned Pro-Active Disruption with Jesse Parenti

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Are you ready to revolutionize your approach to risk management and take your insurance business to new heights? Tune in as I explore the world of proactive risk management with Jesse Parenti, an expert in the insurance industry. Jesse shares his valuable insights from working in the unique niches of the pizzeria and cannabis industries, and how his focus on company culture, safety, and accountability has led to his success.

Highlights:

  • If you come in with an idea of solving a problem, not quoting insurance, that’s really the beginning of separating yourself from what everyone else is doing the industry.
  • Establishing your CSA – Culture, Safety and Accountability
  • If you actually help people be proactive, they will trust you in a way that no one has.
  • The OSHA safety code is the bible of safety, and issues with an employee can often be resolved with effective communication between HR and Safety departments.
  • Ensure that you have built accountability into your culture
  • Create a leadership that is focused on the pro-active rather than the reactive.
  • Why should people do business with your company over and above all of the options available to them? Because you already have you CSA proactively in place.

 

About our Guest:

As Founder of JP Squared Consulting, a risk management company, Jesse Parenti offers over 17 years of commercial lines risk management, specializing in protecting the transportation and food delivery industry and over 7 years in the Cannabis industry nationally.

His key client base includes last mile delivery, pizza and food delivery, cannabis cultivators, extractors, manufacturers, B2C delivery, B2B transportation and distribution organizations, including full vertically integrated operators and MSO’s. He helps create custom solutions as a trusted risk advisor using safety, consulting, HR and insurance placement.

Jesse has been a proud associate member of multiple business organizations and advocacy groups to build and nurture key relationships and continue to grow his business:

You can contact Jesse at:

Mobile: 805-704-6607

[email protected]

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Website: http://unstoppableprofitproducer.com/

Virtual Events: http://www.uppfaststart.com/

Email [email protected]

Podcast: http://unstoppableprofitpodcast.com

Virtual Training: http://uppfaststart.com

In Person Training: http://beunstoppablebootcamp.com

Episode 207: Making YOU Your Best Version

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In this episode, I dive deep into the powerful Personal Vision Document created by my podcast partner, Joel McKinley. This tool is designed to help individuals plan and prepare for growth and success, with a focus on 3 main categories: Relationships, Mind/Mindset and Body.  I even share my own experience using the Personal Vision Document and the impact it’s had on my life. Join us to learn how this can help you gain the clarity you need.

Highlights:

  • The power of using the Personal VO is preparing yourself for everything you’re going to face on any particular given day.
  • Don’t try to change everything all at once. Work on the things that you have the capacity for in the moment.
  • Create a vision of yourself for 10 years in the future. What do you want to change and achieve?
  • Hold accountability for your goals. Who or what is going to give you the training, what is the investment and what is the outcome.

 

Want to get your hands on the Personal Vision Document? Email Joel at [email protected] with the subject line “Personal Achievement” & he’ll send it to you. Just be sure to share your feedback & experience as well.

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Website: http://unstoppableprofitproducer.com/

Virtual Events: http://www.uppfaststart.com/

Email [email protected]

Podcast: http://unstoppableprofitpodcast.com

Virtual Training: http://uppfaststart.com

In Person Training: http://beunstoppablebootcamp.com

Episode 162: 45 Days That Will Change an Agent’s Life

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Can 45 days really change your life as an agent, personally and professionally? Forever?

Too often we let setbacks bring us down rather than using them as a learning experience.  So I pose you this question “What would you do, based on what you know now if you had 45 days to work 100% of the time on your business”?  Discover how this key question, coupled with some strategies, can help you achieve your goals and exceed them.

Key Takeaways:

  • Build out your recruiting system for your future organization.
  • Create a world-class culture that supports the entire organization.
  • Build out your entire agency processes roadmap for future agency operation.
  • Have a process of accountability within your own organization, not only for yourself but for your teammates
  • Map out your entire marketing promotion and marketing program for your agency business.
  • Continually develop your social proof campaign, everything from online reviews, to testimonials, to case studies, to video testimonials to written reviews.
  • Design his own personal development roadmap.

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
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Episode 161: Accountability Breeds Responsibility

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At UPP we coach leaders through the skills of recruiting, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, training, motivation, and one of the most important skills, accountability. When you have accountability, you have responsibility. I am going to focus mainly on personal accountability; however, you can take these strategies that I am going to give you and build them for your team and organizational accountability as well.

Key Takeaways:

  • When you build accountability into your world and into your life, into your daily habits, it will change everything for you forever
  • There are no limits. The only limitations that you have are those that you make for yourself in your mind and this self-accountability will help you reach beyond that.
  • Find an Accountability Partner to help you stay focused on being accountable for what you set out to do and what you said you were going to do
  • Set three top goals for the day, the week, the month, and the quarter and make them all interrelated.
  • An Accountably Partner should be as committed as you are, 100% willing to do the work, and 100% trustworthy.

 

Resource Mentioned:

Living Your Best Year Ever -Published by Darren Hardy

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
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Episode 117: Your Mindset is Your Skillset

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Today we are going to delve into the mindset.  Your mindset influences how you think, feel, and behave in any given situation.  I want to talk to you about how your mindset can be your greatest skill set and how the things I have done sharpen and enhance mine.

Highlights:

  • The importance of feeding your mind
  • Plan your day the day before in order to help your subconscious be ready before the day begins
  • Creating a positive habitual routine
  • Being your best self requires getting an adequate amount of rest
  • The 8 by 8 by 8 thought process
  • You are the result of the five people that you hang around with most
  • Having an accountability partner to keep you on task
  • Learn to let go of the things that you are worried about, they rarely happen

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
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Episode 115: Coach ‘Em Up Or Coach ‘Em Out

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So, you have hired the best applicant for the position. But just because they were the best does not mean that they need little training and coaching.  In this week’s episode, I discuss what the onboarding process should look like including training and evaluation.  This is all-important because you will need to determine whether there is potential for growth within the agency or if you need to release them back into the marketplace.

Highlights:

  • You have hired however you still need to be recruiting, never stop
  • After hiring there are different phases to put your new recruit through; training, motivation, and accountability.
  • The 10,000-foot view of the insurance business, what it is, and the tools used to implement this training
  • Creating short term, mid-term, and long-term expectations for new team members
  • Utilizing checklists for getting them started in your agency
  • Assigning various mentors to train on different days so as not to tax the demands of your other employees
  • A look at the first few weeks of training, with both expectations and accountability being evaluated
  • Identifying areas of needed improvement to determine whether you are continuing with them or termination

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Email [email protected]

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