Practitioners Must Be Mentally, Physically Fit To Sell Insurance

Insurance practitioners must be physically and mentally fit to sell insurance products and services, hence, must exercise regularly, said, the managing director/CEO, NEM Insurance Plc, Mr. Tope Smart.

Smart, who was represented by the executive director, Marketing and Business Development, Mr. Andrew Ikekhua, during the NEM Fitness Walk, at the firm’s headquarter in Obanikoro, Lagos, over the weekend, noted that, only someone who is physically and mentally fit can practice insurance as a profession.

The fitness walk, which started at NEM House in Obanikoro, terminated at Maryland and back to NEM office on Ikorodu road, in which its staff partook in the early morning walk.

Speaking further, he said, the company initiated the fitness walk as a form of exercise as well as enhance insurance awareness among Nigerians.

Stating that while the exercise is good for the body, it’s also an avenue to promote the name and insurance products of the company for people within its environs.

“We have been able to create awareness about insurance as we walk because people kept asking who we are and what we do and in the process of answering them, we are educating them and deepening insurance penetration,” he said.

While urging Nigerians to insure their risk exposures, he advised people to approach his underwriting firm for their general insurance products and services.

“Once you have an insurance policy, it will appear that you have not lost anything because when there is a disaster, you are sure of a replacement, except for the emotional trauma of the incident that one may experience,” he stressed.