Insurance Agent by Rodney D Young Book Review
The author of the book, Rodney D. Young, discusses the many challenges a person faces in their lifetime. Most of us face at least one challenge on a daily basis. There is no doubt that each of our challenges will be unique and different from others. These differences will manifest themselves in areas such as our career, relationships, health, and even in our appearance. Young talks about these various aspects of life in an interesting way.
If you would like to improve your life chances, reading this book would be a good place to start. Young talks about how by taking control of your life you can make positive changes that will have a great impact on your life. He provides tips to help you make changes that will provide you with the tools you need to achieve the goals you desire. His advice helps provide you with a framework for improving your life so you would be able to identify and take action against your personal challenges.
Many people have obstacles that they would like to overcome. Young goes through several life challenges himself and identifies the actions needed to succeed. One chapter is titled "The Life-Changing Quotient." This chapter examines your attitude toward your own personal challenges and how you would react if you encountered them. This chapter also identifies ways for you to remain motivated throughout the tough times.
A second chapter entitled "The Insurance Agent's Balancing Act" discusses how you would react when you received bad news from a client. It includes practical tips such as not to blame the client or take it personally, and how to remain calm when the client is upset. Young also discusses how to deal with insurance agents who are difficult. These chapters provide practical advice that would benefit most insurance agents regardless of their field. These chapters also provide important information that Young encourages agents to consider before taking on the challenges they face. It would benefit all insurance agents to read this book.
The book ends with a review of "The Insurance Agent" and a recommendation of a book by the same author, "The Insurance Code." This book provides the key information Young wanted to include in the second edition of his book. The book begins by discussing the twelve chapters of the first edition and goes into discussing challenges faced by agents and what you can do to overcome these challenges. After this the book reviews the twelve principles Young identified to help an agent succeed.
The main cause of failure for many insurance agents is that they let their emotions get the best of them. They make decisions based on what will please their emotions rather than an objective view. Part two of this book discusses how you can change this attitude and how to overcome the various challenges you may face as an insurance agent. This part of the book reviews some tools you can use to help you overcome the challenges Young identified. It also provides practical advice that would benefit most agents regardless of their field.
The final part of the book reviews how agents can handle adversity. The twelve principles that are outlined in the first half of the book are re-revisited in this second part to help agents effectively handle changes. insureinfoq.com are designed to improve your ability to adapt, respond, solve problems, develop and communicate. The book concludes by listing twelve tips for agents to use during the first year of being an independent agent. These tips focus on being proactive and building the necessary networks to grow the business.
Overall this was a good book to read for those wanting to know how to be an insurance agent. The book review provides an overview of the subject and the book itself provides a well organized set of lessons with specific examples. It does take a bit of learning curve but it is well worth the effort as once you understand what agents are doing and how you can apply this knowledge you will find it to be very profitable in the future.
