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Your Career and Self Confidence - Part 3 - Tools to help change your inner conversation
How to succeed without feeling like an imposter Why is this important? Self-doubt, feelings of inadequacy or a lack of confidence can burden and cripple career progression. This programme unlocks tools and strategies to achieve healthier thought patterns, boost confidence and collaboration within teams. What is this? This is a four-part, interactive programme of 1 x hour sessions - to be held in January. It’s designed to help members of the Insurance Institute of the Southampton develop their self confidence, increase their motivation and build resilience. Drawing on cutting edge research, the programme is both thought provoking and practical and has received great feedback from participants.
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Soft Skills Event One Hour Seminars, Session Three - Wednesday 22nd January 2025
Through its interactive and engaging instructor-led sessions, the Soft Skills Three 1 hour sessions will help experienced and newer members brush up on or learn specialist soft skills. The sessions are recorded and a copy is sent out to all delegates afterwards.
View event detailsYour Career and Self Confidence - Part 2 - Imposter syndrome – up close
How to succeed without feeling like an imposter Why is this important? Self-doubt, feelings of inadequacy or a lack of confidence can burden and cripple career progression. This programme unlocks tools and strategies to achieve healthier thought patterns, boost confidence and collaboration within teams. What is this? This is a four-part, interactive programme of 1 x hour sessions - to be held in January. It’s designed to help members of the Insurance Institute of the Southampton develop their self confidence, increase their motivation and build resilience. Drawing on cutting edge research, the programme is both thought provoking and practical and has received great feedback from participants.
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Soft Skills Event One Hour Seminars, Session Two - Wednesday 15th January 2025
Through its interactive and engaging instructor-led sessions, the Soft Skills Three 1 hour sessions will help experienced and newer members brush up on or learn specialist soft skills. The sessions are recorded and a copy is sent out to all delegates afterwards.
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RO6 (Financial Planning Practice) Pre Exam Training, Monday 13th January 2025 - online distance learning event
Through its interactive and engaging instructor-led sessions, the RO6 preparation day aims to increase your chances of passing the exam. This intensive workshop will work through the case studies that will be examined in the January 2025 sitting. The session is recorded and a copy is sent out to all delegates afterwards, together with practice questions.
View event detailsYour Career and Self Confidence - Part 1 - Your Concept of Success
How to succeed without feeling like an imposter Why is this important? Self-doubt, feelings of inadequacy or a lack of confidence can burden and cripple career progression. This programme unlocks tools and strategies to achieve healthier thought patterns, boost confidence and collaboration within teams. What is this? This is a four-part, interactive programme of 1 x hour sessions - to be held in January. It’s designed to help members of the Insurance Institute of the Southampton develop their self confidence, increase their motivation and build resilience. Drawing on cutting edge research, the programme is both thought provoking and practical and has received great feedback from participants.
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Soft Skills Event One Hour Seminars, Session One - Thursday 9th January 2025
Through its interactive and engaging instructor-led sessions, the Soft Skills Three 1 hour sessions will help experienced and newer members brush up on or learn specialist soft skills. The sessions are recorded and a copy is sent out to all delegates afterwards.
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STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) Financial Services Certificate Course Day 1 of 10, Tuesday 10th December 2024
STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) Financial Services Certificate Course. Day 1: Wills/Intestacy & Introduction to Trusts
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Financial awareness – a plain English overview for all insurance staff
Understanding clients’ accounts has never been more important for brokers and underwriters alike, with tremendous scrutiny now being put on clients' accounts, so account executives, account handlers and underwriters will need to understand the main terminology.
View event detailsAF8 (Retirement Income Planning) Preparation Tester Event, Wednesday 4th December 2024 - online distance learning event
The objective is to develop and demonstrate the advanced skills needed for advising on income planning to those in and approaching retirement. This session is recorded and a copy is sent out to all delegates.
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Proximate Cause & Exclusions: the Court of Appeal provides further guidance
In January 2023 the Court of Appeal delivered its judgment in the case of Brian Leighton (Garages) Ltd v Allianz Insurance Plc. The case provides further guidance as to what should be taken into account when considering scope of cover and especially proximate cause and exclusions. In this session, Jeff Heasman will examine the key aspects of the judgment and its impact on insureds and insurers.
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Effective Communication in the Hybrid World
Human beings evolved to communicate and interpret communication in a face-to-face environment. Away from in person interactions we lose the ability to fully interpret the communication of others. The current virtual environment of remote working and trading has only accentuated the need to develop impactful and tailored skills across different communication media if we want to succeed in the business world.
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Joint Learning and Development (CPD) Conference
Our annual Learning and Development Conference takes place on Thursday 17 October and is once again hosted jointly by the Insurance Institute of Sussex and North Downs Insurance Institute. Delivering 5 hours of quality CPD, the event will be of interest to all general insurance professionals and will cover the following range of topics: artificial intelligence; brokers' professional indemnity insurance; modern marine risks; terrorism; cyber; emerging climate risks and opportunities
View event detailsA Guide to Understanding Policy Wordings
Recent litigation has demonstrated the importance of understanding the policy contract wording. This webinar explains how policy wordings are constructed and may be interpreted. It will address the following: • why understanding policy wordings matters • the structure, functions, and contents of an insurance contract, including the schedule • contract certainty • policy wording conventions • the legal background and the law governing policy wordings in UK • the meanings of warranties, conditions, representations, and exclusions
View event detailsThe Power of Questions
‘The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.’ (Claude Levi-Strauss) Asking the right questions of ourselves, as much as of others, is one of the keys to success in our business and personal lives. This virtual training programme helps us to understand why questions are so important and how powerful they can be in leading us to the outcomes we want to achieve. This type of learning is applicable at all levels across the insurance industry, whether in sales, negotiation, claims, underwriting, broking or simply working collaboratively in teams or meetings. The session will explore the following: • the limitations of language and using questions to recover lost information – ‘transderivational search’ • directing focus in ourselves and others • building awareness, accountability, and responsibility – psychological ownership and action • questions vs statements, giving vs seeking • building empathy and rapport • skilful questioning techniques in Sales and Client work – exploring SPIN sales questions
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Burning Questions - A CPD event with Networking Buffet
Join us for our free CPD and networking evening at the Birch Hotel in Haywards Heath, We will be welcoming experts from Hawkins & Associates who will present on a multi-disciplinary fire investigation, from origin to recovery. This event will followed by a networking buffet. During the evening, - Anna Knight will share her expertise in fire investigation from the initial instruction, investigating the scene and identifying root cause; - Ian Major undertakes investigations into the cause and spread of fires and will discuss how the extent of fire damage is influenced by poor design or construction; and - Niralee Casson will discuss potential building defects and how she can ascertain where the responsibility lies and if there are prospects for recovery.
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Mastering Self-Confidence - a 1-2-1 Workshop
Self-confidence is a real issue for many people of all ages and life stages, especially if they are returning to work after a career break, seeking employment after redundancy or consider themselves stuck in a rut and lacking the self-belief and impetus to move forward. Over two sessions, this free 1-2-1 coaching program will explore what is holding you back in the workplace and empower you to take proactive and lasting steps to address the situation.
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Visit to Lloyd's
Members of the Insurance Institute of Sussex are invited to join us for a one-hour visit to the internationally renowned Lloyd's building to provide an introduction to Lloyd's and how the Lloyd's market works. The visit has been arranged for us by Lloyd's and will include a tour of the building led by one of their expert guides. It will also feature a talk on the history of Lloyd's. the Lloyd's market and its operation, the structure of the market, how business is placed, globalisation and distribution regulation and Lloyd's in the world insurance market.
View event detailsFinancial Stress & Mental Health
Financial strain is recognised as being one of the key stress factors for adults, and it can be a major risk factor for poor mental health. It is not uncommon for people to neglect their mental health, specifically when they are experiencing financial stress. This can lead to significant problems in the long term and even worsen the existing financial stress. In this session, we will explore the relationship between financial stress and health - and attendees will leave with practical tools to help them combat financial stress, and stay well.
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Insurance Institute of Sussex Croquet Evening
There is still time to book your place for this year's annual Croquet Tournament which will take place on Wednesday 3 July 2024 at the Sussex County Croquet Club, who will be our hosts for the evening. This is a great opportunity to enjoy a light-hearted, competitive game of croquet and network with other insurance and financial services professionals over a tasty ploughman's supper. The evening costs just £15 per person and is open to all members who may each bring one guest if they wish. No experience is necessary as full training will be given on the night, so book your places today and see if you can be the winner of our Centenary Trophy by mastering this seemingly gentle sport!
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