Experience Does Matter

Experience is often overlooked and disregarded in most Western cultures of today, especially in the business arena.

Who brings more value to a company, the more experienced tenured employee or, the more educated new employee? Over the decades, this has been debated in many corporate boardrooms and HR departments. We frequently hear of younger, highly educated employees replacing older and much more experienced managers or executives. To make matters worse, often, the company expects the manager or executive to train their replacement in a few short weeks or months before being replaced!

Experience, though, can never be taught. As most experienced professionals can tell you, there are nuances, scenarios, situations, particular skill sets, etc., pertinent to any industry that cannot be taught; they are gleaned over the years from experience only.

So, why are there so many well-known and respected professional designation organizations that require from no years to only a couple of years of professional experience to qualify for their designations? Their emphasis lies mainly on passing their exams while charging thousands of dollars. It's not based on experience.

Which physician would you pick to perform surgery on yourself or your loved ones, the newly graduated, highly educated surgeon with a couple of surgeries under their belt, or the surgeon that has successfully completed thousands of surgeries over the years?

Our designations require seven years of experience for our coveted CMIP® designation, five years of experience for our CMIS™ designation, and three years for our CMIR™ designation.

Join Us! Come see how our emphasis on our core “K.E.E.” fundamental values of knowledge, experience, and ethics can make an impact on your career and the confidence that your clients have in you.

To our CMIP®, CMIS™, and CMIR™ Family, thank you for your commitment to excellence.

Thank you for all that you do!

Kevin Firth, President

This New Year...improve your serve!

So...how is your serve?

No, I'm not talking about the one with a racquet in your hand. I'm talking about service to your family, your clients, and your fellow human beings.

If you are like me, your service can be improved. In fact, we can all improve our service.

We can always do more and become better at serving others.

It may be by simply picking up the phone, making a call to a friend or loved one in need to ask if there is anything you can do for them. It may be volunteering for a non-profit organization, or helping out a neighbor in need. It may be seeing an issue or problem in your community and doing something about it.

As CMIP®, CMIS™, and CMIR™ Designation Holders, no matter how experienced and professional we are, we can always do better at serving our clients. As Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and PDP producing agents we serve, primarily, the senior market.

Service is something that most senior citizens understand and value greatly, because they were either raised by what some call "The Greatest Generation" of Americans to have ever lived, or by their parents who were raised by this generation. This greatest generation of Americans knew the meaning of service, duty, and sacrifice. They saw the First World War as children, then went through the "Dust Bowl" of the Midwest and the Great Depression as teens and young adults, and as adults, faced and defeated one of the greatest axes of evil in the history of the world during WWII.

My grandfather was a part of this generation. He served in the 5th Armored Division, Reconnaissance, in the European theatre during WWII. He was one of the heroes in my life. One of the greatest men I've ever known.

After serving in the military, my grandfather went to work for Phillips 66, serving there for 43 years before retiring. After retirement, he wasn't finished serving. My grandmother became bedfast, after a brain tumor that was removed when she was 40 years old grew back and left one arm and her legs paralyzed, right around the time of my grandfather's retirement. My grandfather took care of her 24/7 for seven years until her death. He fed her, bathed her, changed her clothes, and changed her bedpans. His dreams of travel and leisure, supplanted by compassion and duty. Never once did I hear him complain.

His life was the epitome of service. His life was a representation of an entire generation (of course there were exceptions) who set the standard for what it means to serve. It seems in subsequent generations we have lost sight of what service truly means.

This New Year, join me, all CMIP®, CMIS™, and CMIR™ designation holders who serve our seniors, in trying to live up to the ideals of service of the "Greatest Generation" by improving our service. If we do, our clients will certainly take notice, appreciate it, and spread the word. This is how we succeed, not only in our careers, but in our families and communities.

If you are a health insurance agent who possesses our core "K.E.E." values of Knowledge, Experience, and Ethics; always striving for excellence in what you do, we want you to join us!

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Thank you for all that you do, for your family, your clients, and humanity.

Together, we can make a difference.

Kevin Firth, President

Certified Medicare Insurance Planner™, DBA

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!From Certified Medicare Insurance Planner™, DBA.

As we close out and come to the end of another AEP season, while climbing our way back to a semblance of normality from the adversities of the past two years, may you and your family find peace and joy this Holiday Season!

I want to thank all of our CMIP®, CMIS™, and CMIR™ Designation Holders who participated in this years Annual Enrollment Period. As our designation holders, I know you went above and beyond the call of duty to educate and assist your clients in choosing vital health care coverage.

You truly are essential workers by any definition!

Thank you for serving your clients professionally and admirably as only our CMIP®,

CMIS™,CMIR™ Designation Holder Family can. I commend you! You are our heroes!

Here at Certified Medicare Insurance Planner™, DBA, we believe that Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, is the reason for the Christmas Season and that He can bring that peace and joy we all are searching for!

However you celebrate the Holidays, may you and your family have a very joyous Holiday Season and a blessed New Year!

Thank you for all that you do!

Kevin Firth-Founder/President