22 posts found
10/04/2021 · 6 min read
OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) transform insurance agency goal-setting by translating ambitious targets into three to five measurable Key Results per Objective, reviewed weekly. A solid agency OKR set covers production, retention, pipeline, and team metrics with clear baselines and targets.
09/20/2021 · 5 min read
Stop the backslide by tracking behavior metrics (call volume, contact rate, quote conversion, referral asks) on a weekly dashboard with thresholds that trigger defined responses. Complacency softens the behaviors that produced growth, one small concession at a time. Recover sequentially: one behavior at full intensity for 30 days.
09/20/2021 · 5 min read
Spot agency backslide early by watching leading indicators (new business conversion rate, 90-day cancellation rate, team activity volume, retention by cohort) instead of waiting for monthly production to drop. Catch the slide while it's people drift or process decay, before culture changes turn into revenue changes.
09/13/2021 · 5 min read
Emotional mastery for an agency owner is real-time awareness of your internal state plus the ability to regulate it before it leaks into the team. Check in before calls and meetings, run a 5-minute reset between frustrating moments, and process hard emotions in private. Leader state spreads to team performance.
09/11/2021 · 5 min read
Motivation is an emotional state that decays in about 72 hours. Inspiration is cultivated through habits, origin-story reconnection, evidence of impact, and time with people further along. High-performing agents run on inspiration plus systems, not motivation.
09/04/2021 · 6 min read
Robin Sharma's four interiors are Mindset (beliefs), Heartset (emotional regulation), Healthset (sleep, movement, nutrition), and Soulset (purpose). All four must be developed in parallel because neglecting one undermines the others. Your agency's ceiling is set by your weakest interior, no matter how hard the other three work.
09/04/2021 · 5 min read
Robin Sharma's four interior domains are Mindset (beliefs and self-talk), Heartset (unprocessed emotion that distorts decisions), Healthset (sleep, nutrition, movement that drive cognition), and Soulset (purpose and meaning behind the work). All four compound or all four leak. Most operators work on one and wonder why strategy doesn't land.
08/30/2021 · 5 min read
Apply Michael Jordan's excellence standard to insurance: practice like you play (record and review your calls), study tape when you're winning, make your own standard non-negotiable, and treat every loss as data. Standards that flex with circumstance aren't standards.
08/30/2021 · 5 min read
Apply the Jordan standard to your agency by isolating one specific metric (close rate, retention, average premium), designing deliberate work on that one gap, refusing to settle for 'pretty good,' and building a culture where the owner models the standard before demanding it from the team.
05/14/2021 · 6 min read
Agents recover energy by reconnecting with meaning (call a real client about a real win), building a small-wins streak (three controllable daily targets, five days in a row), and operating at the edge of capability instead of in the comfort zone. Waiting in the chasm makes it permanent.
05/07/2021 · 5 min read
The routine that built your agency calcifies into a ceiling. Break the humdrum with deliberate variation at the edges: one new input, one new conversation, one new experiment per month. Keep the consistency core that clients trust. Add novelty at the periphery until the edge learnings move the core.
04/30/2021 · 5 min read
Stop letting the internal "can't" voice rule the case. Notice the moment between opportunity and response, ask for the smallest version of the action you do believe you can take, get one data point that feeds the "can" file, then escalate. More shots produce more hits.
04/28/2021 · 10 min read
Three high-leverage moves compound a sales career: study a producer two levels above you, hire a coach who tells you what you don't want to hear, and commit to the 1% improvement practice (one specific thing better every month). Skills are the highest-return investment most agents never make.
04/02/2021 · 6 min read
Agency owners set the bar too low because last-year-plus-10-percent feels responsible while requiring zero structural change. A real goal forces a new channel, new team structure, or new system, carries a non-financial why, and is announced to someone whose opinion you respect.
02/24/2021 · 6 min read
After a record month, name the specific numbers, recognize individual contributions, then reset daily execution standards to match the behavior that produced the win. Lock in the new floor before raising the ceiling. The danger month is the one after the record, when habits quietly loosen and results slide back.
12/30/2020 · 7 min read
Sustain $250K-a-month production by staging support hires (part-time at month 4, full-time by month 7), protecting prospecting time as the book grows, treating renewals as production with a 60/30-day outreach sequence, and recovering with the same intentionality you bring to activity.
12/28/2020 · 7 min read
Hit $250K a month in premium in under a year by setting the daily call volume the night before, running 60 calls a day with objection logging, building a specific scripted referral ask into every close, and refusing to let anyone else's benchmarks define your ceiling.
12/23/2020 · 7 min read
Garrett J. White's daily Warrior stack for insurance agency owners: physical movement first, then reflection or journaling, then presence with spouse and kids, then business. Reactive morning email handed to inbox at 6am is the cost of skipping the stack. Personal ceiling sets business ceiling.
12/21/2020 · 6 min read
Garrett J. White's Warrior framework gives insurance agents four interconnected domains: Body, Being, Balance, and Business. Most owners are crushing one or two and quietly collapsing in the others. Personal ceiling determines business ceiling. Stop compartmentalizing and show up fully in all four, every day.
01/10/2020 · 6 min read
Build breakthroughs across mind, body, and business by treating them as one system: daily mental training, four workouts a week with seven hours of sleep, and documented agency systems that run independent of the owner's energy. Discipline transfers from one domain to all three.