2016 BPS Study
Brokerage Industry Perspectives How Best Practices agencies are leading the way
This picture is not confined to producers and agency owners. It is also an issue with leadership teams, client support staff and administrative employees. Is an aging workforce a bad thing? No – older workers are frequently just as effective as younger workers. But a workforce that is too heavily concentrated among any single age group will create a succession challenge if a large group retires within a small window of time. BPS firms recognize the dual necessity of investing in talent and managing age concentrations to ensure stability of leadership, production and client servicing. The Best Practices Study now monitors age concentrations to allow firms to more effectively benchmark and manage their succession planning. Following are actual examples of healthy and unhealthy age distributions within BPS Agencies.
Age Banding of Producer Controlled Books
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Agencies best positioned to achieve long‐term independence employ generationally‐balanced production talent. As seen in the “Age Banding of Producer Controlled Books” comparison above, young producers handle a larger share of agency revenue in healthier firms. Healthy firms do not usually stumble across a millennial diamond in the rough. Rather, they make a continuous effort to hire and train individuals in the next generation. Today, young producers not only represent an agency’s future owners, leaders and producers, they drive organic growth. Sales Velocity is the key indicator of organic growth. The following “Age Banding of Sales Velocity” chart shows that healthier firms, generating superior Sales Velocity results, enjoy greater new business production from younger producers (defined as producers under age 46). Young talent, not seasoned veterans, often determines an agency’s current and future growth.
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