Union Assurance sales team bags LIMRA International Awards
A total of 100 Union Assurance staff and advisers won awards at LIMRA
International Awards Seminar - 2010 held at the Ceylon Continental
Hotel, Colombo recently. Seventeen winners International Quality Award,
78 winners of International Awards for Productivity and five winners of
International Quality Management Award, received their awards in the
presence of LIMRA and LOMA Global Managing Director for the South Asia
Region, Khor Han Heng and the senior management team of Union Assurance
Ltd.
LIMRA (Life Insurance and Marketing Research Association) is an
international body of experts in the global financial services industry
providing knowledge and learning in value added marketing and
distribution best practices through research. LIMRA International
annually recognizes life sales adviser and management best practices in
service, productivity and management in the insurance industry.
“Union Assurance is driven in every endeavour by its theme of
“Delivering the promise of trust”. This theme is extended daily through
the pillars of transparency, convenience and respect. Bringing together
a team that is truly committed to their goals and well equipped to do so
is of paramount importance to Union Assurance which has undertaken a
number of initiatives to develop and train its staff to provide quality
service in every aspect of the Company’s activities,” said Union
Assurance Marketing and Distribution General Manager Rukman Weeraratne.
Since 2002 Union Assurance has endorsed LIMRA’s International Quality
Award (IQA) and International Award for Productivity (IAP) annually
among its advisers and the International Quality Management Award (IQMA)
among its agency leaders.
The guest speaker ING Academy Head, Malaysia Ng Ah Bah, who is a
veteran sales person, conducted two sessions titled “How to stay as a
winner” for advisers and “What advisers like about leaders” for agency
leaders.
Chanaka Appuhamy and M.H. Fernando, of Union Assurance, who
participated at the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) in June 2011 in
Atlanta, USA also made presentations at the seminar detailing their
experiences at the USA conference. The wealth of knowledge and
experience gained by them were an inspiration to those who attended the
seminar. Many expressed a desire to achieve the MDRT qualification and
Union Assurance looks forward on more of its members to make the trip to
USA next year.
At the seminar, another 88 achievers were awarded with the internal
designation, ‘Certified Professional Adviser’. Union Assurance CEO Dirk
Pereira the foreign delegates and the senior management presented these
awards and certificates to the achievers. |