The NASBP Producer Communications Toolkit 2.0 doesn’t only work for sharing with project stakeholders. If your agency has new employees, Toolkit 2.0 can help them learn more about surety and help them focus on the best way to speak about the surety product.
Helpful Resources for New Employees

Below are five NASBP resources that can help a new bond producer or underwriter become familiarize with surety bonding.

What You Need to Know to Understand the Surety Process
This three-page document is an easy-to-share guide to contract surety—what it is, types of contract surety bonds, and how to navigate the surety process.

Answers to 51 Questions Small Contractors Ask About Bonding (there are also documents geared towards Owners and Architects)
This document starts with the basics of bonding and moves on to answer complex questions about bonding, the general agreement of indemnity, claims, and much more. It will help new hires learn the ins and outs of contract surety.

The Value of Professional Surety Bond Producers
This slide presentation gives an overview of the role of a surety bond producer—perfect to share with new hires to make sure they understand their new role and the keys to successful client relationships.

Tips and Tricks to Emphasis the Value of the Surety Product

Toolkit elevator speech and talking points
New hires may need help talking about surety. The Toolkit 2.0 offers an elevator speech, which can be adapted to fit your speaking style, that highlights the project and personal success surety bonds can help guarantee. Also included are talking points specific to each stakeholder, which can be weaved into the elevator speech or general conversation. New hires will be able to show they know what is most important to the project stakeholder.

Surety Story Videos
These videos offer a chance for your new employee to see how project owners, contractors, and lenders talk about surety. These show why surety is important to these stakeholders, how surety helps them, and how the bond producer is pivotal in the stakeholder’s surety relationship.

These are just some of the valuable free tips and guidance NASBP bond producers will find to help them promote the surety product to construction project stakeholders, including project owners nasbp.org/guaranteed/owner, lenders nasbp.org/guaranteed/lender, architects nasbp.org/guaranteed/architect, and contractors nasbp.org/guaranteed/contractor. Visit the Toolkit 2.0 to learn more here: nasbp.org/guaranteed. Check out NASBP’s social media post every Friday to stay in the know about the NASBP Toolkit 2.0 Resources. #BeGuaranteedToSucceed #surety.