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Career Setback or “The Sky Is Falling”
If it hasn’t happened yet, it will. Suddenly, seemingly out of the blue, you get; pick one: Demoted, laid off, fired, passed over, or criticized for your execution of a project. What happens next will determine your future for a long, long time. When a career setback happens, it will most likely be very emotional.…
6 Steps to Transforming Your Credit Union for the Digital Economy
The digital economy is a new world order where their digital profiles and personas are directing consumer behaviors and buying decisions. The digital economy will lead them to products and services, special offers, activities, and events based upon recommended by these profiles and personas. It’s not a matter of if or even when it is…
Sometimes you gotta get “Prickly”
The biggest threat to a team or organization is complacency. The minute a team is okay with the status quo, all growth, innovation, and improvement stops. One symptom of complacency is groupthink. This situation occurs when everyone sits in a meeting in silence, and the robotic bobble-heads begin to bob with every agenda item. We’ve…
Quiet, Is it Selfish or Scared?
When leading a team and a decision is needed, what happens? Is it silence or negotiation and debate? Let’s assume that you have assembled the right people for the team; you have the subject-matter experts to be able to make the right decisions. But just having the right experts at the table does not guarantee…
Create a Leadership Presence – 4 Steps
Some people seem to have a leadership presence. They seem to own the room when they walk in. How does that happen? How can you create a leadership brand for yourself? First, we will identify the attributes of a leader. Confident Purposeful Authoritative Directive Attentive Specific Trustworthy Second conduct a personal inventory to see which…
Find the And in Conflict
Society seems to work hard to find the polarity between two sides. There doesn’t seem to be enough leaders with the courage to set their personal opinions, feelings, or beliefs aside to seek the middle ground. This polarization seeps into our workspace, and because of this seepage, unselfish leadership that focuses on serving the middle…
8 Things the Chief Lending Officer Needs to be Successful
Lending is the primary revenue generator in a credit union. To be an expert at generating this revenue, lenders have the following needs and more: A loan origination system that works seamlessly for the member Smooth handoffs throughout the lending process to underwriters, processors, and funders Ability to monitor and act on delinquencies Ability to…
10 Steps to Leadership Influence
Being influential is essential to being successful. Influence is communication and behavioral skill that allows the leader to establish his/her authority into a situation that results in others responding with thought and action. To be an effective leader requires you to be an influencer. If you cannot influence others, your only course of action is…
Change Leadership in 8 Steps
All teams have three participants: change agents, change neutrals, and change resistors. The key to leading change is empowering the change agents, influencing the change equivocators, and helping the change resistors understand the WIIFM (what’s in it for me). Here are the critical steps to leading change. First, identify who fits into these categories because…
Ready for a Career Change – Start with your Brand Image
Often, when you are at a career intersection, whether it is the result of a decision to seek another job, a layoff, or a desire to start a new career, we must first ask, what does your brand say about you today? A personal brand audit is an excellent way to start as you reinvent…
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