Seriously, Just Stop! The employees see it. The customers see it. Why can’t the bank’s leadership and management see it? It’s similar to watching an LSU football game with Les Miles at the helm up until Saturday. Everyone in the stands saw it.
Read more →Are you willing to risk it? The world of banking, in many ways, revolves around risks. Credit Risk, Interest Rate Risk, and Regulatory Risk just to name a few. A great amount of time and effort is focused on these
Read more →The Rise of the Drones! Drones, as most of us think of them these days, can be either good or bad. Amazon delivering packages via drones seems pretty cool and innovative… Good. Creepy neighbor flying his drone above your home…
Read more →The smartest community bankers are living the good life Opportunity abounds and the best community banks are taking advantage of it. Competition from the weaker community banks and the large banks is limited at best. The weaker community banks are drowning under the weight
Read more →A bird’s eye view of your customer reality Every single day for the past month a little bird has been pecking at the front door of my house. He’s actually pecking on a shiny metal plate attached to the door. It’s
Read more →Why are 80% of community bank accounts not making money? New regulation is consuming valuable time and money from community banks, putting many in survival mode. While it’s critically important to spend the time and assets on regulation, many community
Read more →We’ve read articles recently that incentive plans don’t work. We’ve seen banks end their failed attempts to implement incentive plans, and we’ve dealt with banks that believe employees get a salary for their job so why should they get incentives.
Read more →90% of all leaders and managers seem to be hopelessly looking for that proverbial, silver bullet that will solve all problems while at the same time, magically produce record profits within the next three tmonths. After that, they’re off to the
Read more →Quite often managers are placed in their role because of experience and performance in a previous role. They are often the resident expert in their department. Sadly though, as a result of being the expert, a large number of managers
Read more →In all our years of implementing and managing incentive programs, we’ve seen just a handful of community banks successfully implement one that was effective and profitable. Most will get something in place only to see average to below average results and
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