Powers Insurance coverage & Threat Administration

As a multi-year winner of Insurance coverage Journal’s Greatest Company to Work For award, J.D. Powers of Powers Insurance coverage & Threat Administration doesn’t lose sight of what the respect represents to the St. Louis, Missouri-based firm.

“The truth that it’s not a flash within the pan, it’s constant,” stated Powers. “Because the CEO, I don’t have a lot skill to get suggestions so far as how I’m doing as a pacesetter so it’s just about the most effective suggestions I may probably obtain.”

A family-driven tradition of discovering the fitting folks, figuring out workers’ strengths, and reinvesting within the firm makes Powers Insurance coverage one of many top-rated businesses year-over-year. The company, which supplies private and enterprise insurance coverage, surety, danger administration and worker advantages, earned the 2023 Silver award for the Midwest area.

Workers expressed satisfaction with compensation, work-life stability and communication between staff members, making it a spot the place they’re proud to work.

“This firm, whereas seeing great development, nonetheless sticks to its core values as a very household owned and operated entity,” one worker stated.

As CEO, J.D. Powers credit the corporate’s development to its rigorous hiring technique of discovering people who find themselves fascinated with constructing a protracted profession on the company. Since 2008, Powers and its sister firm, Valley Insurance coverage Company Alliance, have grown from 9 workers to 74.

“On this tight labor market, it’s been troublesome to stay affected person throughout the hiring course of, however we actually simply overcommunicate, set expectations so folks perceive why we have now such a radical course of,” J.D. Powers stated. “We’re trying to make the fitting rent for them to ideally be right here the remainder of their profession.”

The company conducts at the least three rounds of interviews and, relying on the place, two or extra assessments. The company depends on suggestions from division managers and different workers earlier than making a hiring choice. By doing their homework within the hiring course of, company leaders are capable of determine people who find themselves nearly “at all times extra proficient and smarter than us,” J.D. Powers stated.

The company acknowledges it generally will get the seat unsuitable with a brand new rent. So, workers are given the chance to maneuver round inside the firm to discover a function the place they’ll succeed.

“They created a brand new place for me simply 9 months into my employment, permitting me to excel and have a mutually helpful place inside the firm,” one worker stated.

Workers even have the liberty to share concepts, questions and issues, and company leaders maintain a round-table to deal with issues in real-time.

Open communication and belief permits the company to develop at a wholesome fee with a wholesome tradition, stated J.D. Powers.

“The ground is at all times open and we’re capable of contribute concepts, categorical issues, and provide opinions,” one worker stated. “In return our contributions aren’t solely heard, however valued, thought of and infrequently applied in the event that they make sense to the entire staff.”

A number of workers remarked that the corporate fosters a family-oriented tradition that comes with advantages like an workplace nap room, a nursing room and a stretch therapist. Powers additionally affords workers full well being advantages and agency-paid $50,000 life insurance coverage.

Because the company has scaled its enterprise in recent times, the homeowners have been conscientious about reinvesting income into the corporate’s folks and expertise.

“The insurance coverage business is likely one of the most useful kinds of enterprise you possibly can personal, and there’s a motive why non-public fairness desires to purchase all of us,” stated J.D. Powers. “I might simply encourage folks to maintain working actually exhausting by means of this tough market, investing the sum of money that’s required to assist them proceed to get to the subsequent degree and never hand over and promote to non-public fairness or nationwide businesses.”

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