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Micro-Cert Courses
The Institutes offer a curated collection of concentrated, topic-focused Micro-Cert courses to sharpen your skills and advance your knowledge as you explore key facets of the risk management and insurance industries.
Leading and Coaching Skills
.Learn the essentials of recruiting, developing, and leading your team as you explore emotional intelligence, motivational methods, and the keys to managing virtual teams.
Managing Clients' Cyber Risks
.Explore the variety of cyber risks clients are exposed to whether they are sole proprietorships or large corporations.
Identifying Commercial Clients' Risks
.Understand of risk classifications and categories to collaborate with your clients as you manage their risk and build resilient organizations.
Excelling at Account Management
.Develop strategies to grow your selling skills. Implement strategies to increase sales and leverage opportunities during the policy renewal process to existing customers.
Closing Commercial Coverage Gaps
.Dive into how to best serve your clients and close commercial coverage gaps to reduce risks. Familiarity with standard commercial lines products is helpful in the completion of this course, but not required.
Helping Clients Prepare for the Worst
.Explore disaster coverages and develop skills to categorize property, sources of risk, and how to value physical property.
Understanding P&C Ratemaking and Pricing
.Explore the purpose of personal rate regulation and rate-making principles. Explain how underwriters use rating plans to tailor insurance pricing on commercial accounts.
Exploring Today's Risk Management and Insurance Landscape
.Assess cyber risk and data liability exposures. Explore how big data and technology influence RMI strategy. Understand why parametric insurance has emerged and how it works.
Topic Courses
Explore topic courses targeted towards helping agents and brokers stay up to date on emerging trends and fundamentals.
Insurance Essentials
.Gain a basic understanding of risk management and insurance concepts. Learn key terms and definitions, understand the different types of insurance, and explore how insurance affects society and the economy.
Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance
.Learn the fundamentals of property-casualty insurance, risk management, claims, and underwriting.
Surplus Lines Fundamentals
.Gain a solid understanding of why surplus markets are needed, how the distribution system works, how transactions are regulated, and how the surplus lines market is able to successfully underwrite risks that the standard market has declined.
Captive Insurance Fundamentals
.Elevate your knowledge of captive insurance from a global perspective. Meet your client’s needs and learn the basic captive insurance terminology and concepts, including how to form and operate a captive insurer.
Cyber Risk Fundamentals
.Confidently discuss cyber risk with your clients to enhance their understanding of potential loss exposures.
Health Insurance Basics - IFEBP
.Designed for those who help participants enroll in health insurance coverage, this course focuses on the basic concepts and terminology that consumers need to know.
Self-Funded Health Plan Basics - IFEBP
.Employers providing group health plans for their employees often choose to self-fund medical benefits instead of purchasing insurance. It is critical for plan sponsors to understand how these two approaches differ, how they are the same, and the pros and cons of each. This course will outline the basics of self-funding and provide a foundation for decision making, design and administration.
Introduction to Group Health Plans - IFEBP
.Group health benefits play a key role in attracting and retaining your employees. Having trained staff who can effectively answer group health plan questions is essential. This course identifies the different plan funding options, outlines the evolution of managed care, reviews cost-containment strategies for group health plans and addresses how plans must comply with federal and state laws.
Designations
The Institutes Agent & Broker Group is your partner in success. Develop your skills, build your knowledge, and become the consultative partner your clients demand as you earn designations.
Associate in Risk Management
.Distinguish yourself by learning how to apply a holistic, strategic approach to risk assessment and treatment by focusing on optimizing the risks inherent to organizations.
Associate in Insurance
.Select the program path that matches your career goals and gain foundational knowledge in risk management and insurance.
Associate in Claims
.Gain a solid understanding of claims handling with the knowledge you need to succeed in your claims career. Customize your learning by choosing from property, liability, workers comp, and auto specialty tracks.
CPCU
.Gain confidence and make better business decisions through a broad understanding of the relevant and emerging concepts in risk management and today’s insurance landscape. Drive results and enhance your credibility through strong knowledge of coverage applications, various risk transfer tools, data analysis, and more.
Associate in Commercial Underwriting
.Build a strong foundation in commercial underwriting principles and gain skills you can use right away, including data analysis, disaster risk reduction, insurance operations, and more.
Accredited Adviser in Insurance
.Become a more effective and customer-focused agency professional.
Accredited Customer Service Representative
.Take your career further by deepening your knowledge of insurance products and building your client-centric skillset.
Professional Risk Consultant
.Develop a consultative approach to managing your customers' unique risks.
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Don’t see the course you’re interested in? Explore our knowledge solutions, tailored to your area of focus and experience level including designations, certificates, professional development programs, online courses, and continuing education opportunities.
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