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Are you still using just a hammer in your benefits practice? Too many benefit brokers have been showing up at the jobsite equipped only with the hammer of health insurance, limiting their ability both to add new revenue and to be consultative and solve other HR problems.
As the psychologist Abraham Maslow observed, “If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
Nelson Griswold is founder of the NextGen Benefits Mastermind Partnership and founder and chairman of the ASCEND Agency Growth & Leadership Summit.
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