The Agent Leader Podcast
Brent Kelly--The Agent Leader Podcast
The podcast for independent insurance agency leaders and their teams to learn practical strategies and behaviors to become their best version possible. Hosted by Sitkins Group President, Brent Kelly, The Agent Leader Podcast provides agencies with leadership, sales, and self-development methods that actually get results.
With our focus on a total-team approach to improving independent insurance agencies, we dive into sales, service, and leadership teams.
Leadership is not a title. Leadership is influence. Become a better leader and gain influence with your clients, team, and community.
With our focus on a total-team approach to improving independent insurance agencies, we dive into sales, service, and leadership teams.
Leadership is not a title. Leadership is influence. Become a better leader and gain influence with your clients, team, and community.
Episodes
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Jun 4, 2020 • 18min
Experience is Overrated
As Mike Tyson famously once said "Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face." Just as 2020 has figuratively punched all of us in the face, it has also forced many of us to face our fears, step out of our comfort zones, and embrace change.
In this episode, Brent discusses how you can use June as your reboot to create and continue positive change in your life.
May 28, 2020 • 34min
Design or Default?
Are you running your business by design or by default? In this episode Brent Kelly and his regular guest, Roger Sitkins, talk about designing your future intentionally.
You need to go DEEP - Delivering Excellence in Every Process - to truly get the results you want out of your agency.
To learn more about how we help agency owners
May 21, 2020 • 35min
Are You Swimming Naked?
Are you delivering greatness, or are you swimming naked? Brent discusses this thought with regular guest, Roger Sitkins, in this episode.
To learn more about our upcoming, almost sold out, Virtual ProducerFit check out https://www.sitkins.com/profit
And to learn more about our private client group, The Sitkins Network, visit https://www.sitkins.com/the-sitkins-network
May 14, 2020 • 31min
Pretender or Performer
If you took this time to actually do everything you said you would do “someday” you’d become a great performer pretty darn quickly! In this episode, Brent and his regular guest, Roger Sitkins, discuss ways that agencies and producers can take these lessons learned from the coronavirus crisis and move forward into a new normal.
From tough decisions like having to "right size" or cutting compensation to great opportunities hidden in the isolation, listen in to hear how pretenders can transform into performers.
May 6, 2020 • 23min
Your Two Greatest Investments
In this episode Brent's starts with a quote from Andy Stanley, "A leader can afford to be uncertain, but cannot afford to be unclear."
With that in mind, what are the two greatest investments you can make during these times to provide clarity in your life and career?
Don't wait for an opportunity to come to prepare for it, you'll be too late! Prepare today for your opportunities tomorrow by checking out our next session of virtual ProducerFit starting June 2 at www.sitkins.com/profit
Apr 23, 2020 • 25min
Leaders See More
How are you dealing with the coronavirus crisis as a leader? Brent Kelly discusses ways that Leaders Can See More, and further, in their agency by doing the prep work now, to have a brighter future. Now is the time to be seeking clarity both internally and externally.
To learn more about how we help independent insurance agencies Sell More, Retain More and Earn More, visit www.sitkins.com.
Apr 16, 2020 • 32min
Growth or Goals?
Are you focused on goals, or growth? In this episode, Brent Kelly and Roger Sitkins discuss how focusing on goals doesn't guarantee growth. What do you need to implement in your career, and life, to switch from hitting goals, to hitting growth?
Remember, wherever you are today is based upon the decisions you've made in the past. Wherever you wind up in the future is based on what decisions you make, and implement today.
To learn more about how we help insurance agencies focus on growth, visit www.sitkins.com.
Apr 9, 2020 • 27min
This is the time to go to the SPA
In this episode, Brent and Roger discuss how this month of isolation is actually the perfect time to go to the SPA...and no, we don't mean leaving your house! Listen in to get tips on how to make your own luck out of this situation, by finding key areas of your business and life where you can prepare today to produce tomorrow.
As Brent mentioned, we have launched our virtual ProducerFit program, starting in May. This is the time to make the most important investment you can make.....in YOU. Learn more about our virtual producer improvement program and register at www.sitkins.com/profit
Apr 3, 2020 • 31min
How To Prepare Today To Produce Tomorrow
What should an insurance producer be doing this month in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown?
There is no perfect answer and every producer’s situation is unique, but Brent and Roger discuss ideas you can implement that will keep producers proactive and intentional during this difficult time.
Prepare today, to produce tomorrow. To learn more about our virtual ProducerFit program, now available fully online, visit www.sitkins.com/profit
Mar 26, 2020 • 25min
Deep Learning Experience
What is a Deep Learning Experience? Brent Kelly and his guest this episode, Roger Sitkins, go into what a Deep Learning Experience (DLX) could do for you and your insurance agency.
The first level is awareness, and realizing you have not been going truly deep enough to make the big changes in your agency.
There's always more great ideas, than there is time to implement them. Listen in to hear some great ideas on how to go deep with your agency.
To learn more about how we help insurance agency leaders and producers sell more, retain more, and earn more, visit www.sitkins.com
