By Susan Toussaint, cofounder, WorkComp Advisory Group

As an industry we look for sales professionals who are bright, articulate thinkers. We groom them for success by sending them to insurance school, encouraging higher learning and the pursuit of designations. We mold producers into people we'd want to do business with if we were buying insurance.

So why do our efforts to create successful producers often end up creating reluctant producers?

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