Is this book for you?

As actuaries, you spend years learning the technical side of our profession: attending lectures, crunching numbers, writing assignments and passing exams. But your career progress and you get promoted into your first management role, you realize that you need a whole new set of skills.

Actuarial managers need additional skills beyond technical expertise. While actuaries focus on high-quality technical work, managers need to supervise, delegate, and ensure the quality of work without doing it themselves. They also need to adapt their management style to different situations and personalities, support team wellbeing, and engage in strategic thinking.

You might have worked for one, or you might be one, a new actuarial manager with an empty management toolkit and not enough support. It’s lonely and exhausting! 

You might find yourself doing all the work, carrying all the stress, and running out of time to do a good job. Your team members start to disengage, you see your friends less often and you start to wonder why you ever wanted the promotion.

But what if there was a way you could:

• Feel confident in your ability as a manager,

• Learn how to manage people and projects and effectively delegate work, and

• Fill your management toolkit with tangible, tried and true strategies?

This textbook has been produced to help you build the skills you need to become a confident and effective actuarial manager.