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As so many made the transition overnight, being able to effectively move all operations from inside the same building into everyone’s homes has been difficult for both agencies and their employees.
The wrong environment can send the wrong message to both employees and clients, it can present a challenge when an owner doesn’t see the problem the employees are staring at every day.
Turning a blind eye to poor performance is damaging to both the culprit and the other employees having to pick up the slack of their co-worker.
While meetings occur with different parties for different reasons, the carrier marketing rep meetings can be particularly challenging.
As nice as it would be for our personal and professional lives could remain separate, the two often intersect and impact one another. This crossover can be OK if appropriate boundaries are in place with limited interaction between the two.
Tension can result as both agencies struggle to figure out how they will adapt and work together in the future.
While there is value in pulling people in the agency together to review, regroup, and strategize on agency initiatives, meeting fatigue is real.
Despite the significant improvement over recent years, there is still work to create better gender equality.
While some agencies may still shy away from acknowledging or discussing the issue, that does not make it any less real or meaningful.
Whether the information has any merit, gossip can create anxiety, fear, and doubt among staff very quickly, leading to a downturn in an organization.
