From simple beginnings to ‘thalaivar’ (leader) of thousands of agents, Mr P Srinivasan, Agent, Life Insurance Corporation of India, Coimbatore shows that commitment and hard work are behind the success of Role Model agents.
It happened in 1978. Interviews to the post of Development Officer (DO) in United India Insurance Company (UIIC) were being held and the interview panel made up of top officials from the four public sector General insurance companies and General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC) and headed by an Assistant General Manager.
One young man in Calcutta was asked a simple question: You want to join as a DO, what do you ultimately want to become? ‘Chairman’, came the answer.
There were no more questions. After a long pin-drop silence, the candidate was asked to leave the room.
A housewife turns insurance agent in her 50s and makes it to MDRT through sheer persistence. Read Mrs G Kanakaratnam’s story in this month’s Role Model section by K Nitya Kalyani.
A delayed train changed the course of Mr P M Padmanabhan’s career. This 72 year old Life Insurance Corporation of India Agent at Vellore, Tamil Nadu gave up thoughts of giving up his agency and went on to become a long standing member of the Chairman’s Club.
“Success is what keeps me going”, says Mr M Rajavardhan Reddy who has been attending the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) annual meet for the past 12 years continuously as an agent of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) at Hyderabad. Apart from his insurance selling business, Mr Reddy is also active in the MDRT organisation in India and has been recently reappointed to the post of Area Chair, Andhra Pradesh.
We are familiar with the saying, ‘if there is a will, there is a way’.
Look at Mr Koutike Vittal’s life and we know that it is pretty true. With his consistent performance as an Agent of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) based at Hyderabad, he has been able to create a name for himself in the industry. Belonging to the Nizamabad Branch of LIC located in northern Telengana that borders Karnataka, Mr Vittal is a prominent figure in the LIC circles both in Andhra Pradesh and in Karnataka states.
‘If you think a challenge is struggle, go do some 9 to 5 job.’ That is Mr K Ravi Kumar’s basic stand on his profession. The 40 year-old Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) agent based at Mumbai firmly believes there are no free lunches and nobody will give you money for not working!
What to choose, what to leave – that was our dilemma when
we decided to bring you select Role Models from four years
of Premium magazine. We hope you enjoy this trip down
memory lane!
He was in the armed forces, took up insurance agency without a clue about insurance and is riding high. Wing Commander Dinesh Kumar Bhardwaj based at Gurgaon represents the two Tata AIG insurance companies, flying the world as a high achiever in the new career he discovered in his late fifties and trying to din the importance of insurance protection into the heads of his erstwhile defence forces colleagues!
Mr Praful Shah is an quintessential old world father and son insurance agents of the type you find in Mumbai, serving fathers and sons and son’s sons with the confidence that they know what the client needs so well that the relationship grows from generation to generation. Because Mr Praful Shah’s father started in this profession, and his son is now successfully helping him.
