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Claims Negotiation Training

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More Professional Negotiations Lower Claims Expenses  Higher Customer Satisfaction  Elevated Company Brand

Higher Customer Satisfaction + Lower Costs

Is it possible to negotiate more effectively and improve the claims customer experience at the same time? Just ask the hundreds of carriers and thousands of claims handlers who have lowered expenses, improved efficiency, and elevated the company brand with PRISMS insurance training courses.

Proven best practices in customer communication and claims negotiation delivered via multimedia formats featuring extensive tasks, activities, and modeling scenarios, this is claims negotiation courseware for a new generation of challenges and channels. Designed to cultivate sharp professionals with strong skills.

Multimedia Online Course

Preview the online course with a complimentary account.

  • Easy access on any internet-enabled device
  • Immersive learning with puzzles, quizzes, and games
  • Extensive animated info-graphics and video
  • Complete Action Plan for on-the-job application
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Download Self-Study iWorkbooks

Download for review or for as many users as needed.

  • iWorkbook #1: PRODUCTIVITY
  • iWorkbook #2: PARTNERING
  • iWorkbook #3: COMMUNICATION
  • iWorkbook #4: NEGOTIATIONS
iWORKBOOK OVERVIEWS & DOWNLOADS

Learning Objectives by Module

PRISMS insurance training participants learn by doing. As part of course work, learners select an actual settlement situation as the focus of their workshop activities. New insights, skills, and tools are ready to be deployed immediately.

THE HUMAN SIDE OF CLAIMS

  • Focus on the the small changes that will
    produce big results
  • Identify your own strengths and challenges
  • Describe the aspects of claim handling
    dependent on skilled communication
  • Describe the value of an “everybody sells” organizational ethos

COLLABORATIVE PARTNERING

  • Establish and maintain rapport as a foundation of comfort & trust
  • Use the principles of empathy to better connect, align, and persuade
  • Profile personality types to determine communication style and persuasion criteria
  • Conduct denials with professionalism

THE SECRETS OF INFLUENCE

  • Use communication that effectively engages the emotional brain
  • Encourage claimants toward settlement decisions in each and every interaction
  • Conduct more collaborative negotiations
  • Guide decisions instead of combating resistance

CLAIMS COMMUNICATION

  • Use questioning techniques to investigate wants, needs, and satisfaction criteria
  • Employ active listening to uncover meaning
  • Align message intent and purpose with communication formats and channels
  • Use effective communication skills to enhance and improve negotiations

STRATEGIES AND TACTICS

  • Perform critical pre-negotiation planning using the 3-tiered goal analysis
  • Plan effective bargaining & concessions
  • Use each of 5 strategic principles for productive negotiations
  • Identify and use a range of specific negotiation strategies & tactics

CONDUCTING NEGOTIATIONS

  • Employ the best approaches for opening, conducting, and ending a negotiation
  • Dealing with attorneys: The power and bargaining equation
  • Overcome objections and problems with questioning skills
  • Finalize agreements to insure durability

Insuring Skills Transfer:

The Action Plan

The Claims Negotiation Action Plan makes it as easy as possible for adjusters to apply on the job what they’ve learned in the course.

Information produced during coursework is transferred and combined with summary content as learners complete the program. Adjusters are prompted to identify a current settlement situation they actually have, around which to build persuasive partnering and negotiation strategies. Participants graduate the course with a complete plan for an actual account, as well as a comprehensive template and tool kit they can use again and again.

Negotiation Flowchart • Persuasion Pyramid • Persuasion Trigger Worksheets • Strategies & Tactics Checklist • 3-Tiered Goal Analysis Worksheet • Personality Style Guide • The Needs Profile • Benefit Development Flowchart • Objection Doctor

Action Plan pages displayed are just a few selections.

  • "An excellent program. Helped significantly with communication and negotiation skills."

    - Gary KruegetzGeneral Motors, (MIC)

  • "Only course I know of that specifically addresses claims function. Our experienced group, representing the cross-section of our corporate claims staff, all appeared to benefit from the program."

    - George AtlamAmerican Hardware Mutual Insurance

  • "Should be standard training for all reps new and old. It will benefit adjusters as well as the rest of the company."

    - Anthony SmarnelliGreat American Insurance

  • "Definitely worthwhile even for a seasoned adjuster."

    - Jan SeipsteinPublic Service Mutual

  • "PRISMS will have a favorable result on customer satisfaction and bottom line profitability through reduced loss dollar cost and claims adjusting expense."

    - Gerald GregersonCPCU, Director, Training & Education, Great American Insurance

  • "It has taken years for some of us to learn what was presented in a few short days in the PRISMS program. A practical, hands-on program."

    - Ronald J. Thomann, CPCUState Auto Companies

  • "Our adjusters need to learn how to deal with people and this is the best program available to achieve that goal."

    - Robert J. Prahl, CPCUAsst. VP Claims, State Auto Companies

  • "Systematic approach so that everyone in our department works from the same page. Very worthwhile."

    - Del MitzelVP / Dir. Of Field Ops, Federated Mutual

  • "I was in sales before claims and always thought that my sales training was my greatest asset in claims work. Now it appears others are becoming aware of this, too. Thank you."

    - John H. MillspaughHawkeye Security Insurance

  • "Beneficial to all of our claims units."

    - Bob DiNicolaAON Subsidiaries

  • "This course is a MUST for supervisors, case managers and adjusters. Pertains to their job function 100%."

    - Mary Ann ValenzaLiberty Mutual

  • "Will help me deal more successfully with attorneys and negotiate win/win settlements."

    - Dan MortonLitigation Specialist, Penn National Insurance

  • "Instructive, thought-provoking, and entertaining."

    - Jim DrewesIndiana Lumbermens Insurance

  • "I wish I had taken this 20 years ago."

    - Ralph SmithPenn National Insurance