Focus: Learning to succeed

Edward Murray finds out how brokers can improve their management credentials by utilising offsite training and which could be the best route to take.

The profession has often struggled to create a consistent, recognised approach to training that places it on the same professional footing as others in the commercial world.

This is changing dramatically: The Aldermanbury Declaration, published in March by the Insurance Profession Task Force, is perhaps the clearest indication that, across the insurance market, aspirations and ambitions are actually changing rather than just being knocked back and forth across the boardroom.

The very fact that a