You have four options We have worked with and coached leaders at all levels in community banks and other organizations for over 25 years and have come across the leader without followers more times than we care to count. This
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Selfies are saying something about your community bank People love taking selfies these days, capturing life in the moment. We’re not knocking it. In fact, it can be kind of fun creating great memories with friends. People hurry to join in
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Most community banks have two cultures and don’t even know it So often community bankers spend time worrying about the competition. How do we beat the big banks? How do we keep up with their resources and technology? They worry about other community
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Grow your bank at least 10% per year with an effective Loan Acquisition Strategy With the right approach to loan acquisition, significant loan growth and bank growth is going to occur. Unfortunately, many community banks take a backward approach to the
Read more →Staying on point seems to be one the most difficult things for people to do. You’ll see leaders excited about their latest and greatest initiative, only to fall off point within months or sadly, even weeks. Managers will start off
Read more →Have you ever taken the time and listened to a state of the union address from the president? Any president? It doesn’t matter who the president is, they’re usually all the same. Lot’s of empty rhetoric filled with emotion and
Read more →Every leadership book I’ve read, every seminar or workshop I’ve attended on leadership and every article on leadership that’s worth anything has had one thing in common… the assumption of a Vision. What’s interesting is they don’t all show you
Read more →We read an interesting article today that is an interview with Ari Weinzweig who co-founded Zingerman’s Delicatessen in 1982 with a $20,000 bank loan. Today, the company is an Ann Arbor, MI institution, and Weinzweig has branched out into a
Read more →Ever wonder why some programs never get off the drawing board? Ever wonder why that last program or initiative failed or faded away after just a few months or even weeks? Why do some organizations seem to thrive in everything
Read more →Be professional on the telephone starting now!Do you wonder why your latest marketing campaign flopped? Why that new product didn’t take off? Why that new branch isn’t meeting expectations? News Flash! It’s the way you answer your phones. It’s the
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