management
Know a Micro-Manager? Read This
We’ve all experienced a boss who micro-manages our work and know this behavior is frustrating and demotivating. Here’s what to do about it.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence
EQ – A Journey to Personal and Professional Success “The capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.” Emotional Intelligence (EQ) refers to the ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. Having Emotional Intelligence requires us to understand how emotions…
Read More5 Steps to Making your Culture Real
We’ve all heard the nightmare stories of businesses being exposed for major failures in their cultural attributes. Maybe the failure is with their values. Significant companies have faced huge fines, and executives have gone to jail for not living up to their published values. These companies include Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, General Motors, Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and…
Read MoreGrow Deposits and Liquidity, Three Strategies
“The times, they are a changin’.” This famous refrain from Bob Dylan’s song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qQ6_RV4VQ) is as real today as it was in the early 60s, especially when we look at deposit needs for financial institutions. In 2008, FIs had to shrink deposits as a tactic to keep their expense ratio in line with the regulators.…
Read MorePreparing your Credit Union for Disruption video
Seeking Call Center Excellence?
Call centers are driven by data and key performance measures. Setting those KPMs is both the challenge and the opportunity. One measure I frequently find for call centers is abandon rates. The averages I typically see are 5-8%. But, be careful of measuring yourself against peers on this measure because if you are just a…
Read MoreWords Matter in Leadership
“Words Matter,” I did not create this phrase. The first time I heard it was from a great CEO I worked for, Gerry Agnes, at Elevations Credit Union. He used this short statement often. However, these two words take on a lot of nuanced meanings. When used in grammar and spelling, words say a lot…
Read MoreIs your job spiraling into (un)planned obsolescence?
Will robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, the buzzwords of this decade, disrupt your job? Here are the types of situations that are at risk: Tasks that are simple and repetitious Functions that take require decisions that can easily be taught to another Jobs that involve data entry from disparate sources Tasks that provide reactive…
Read More5 Reasons to Define Leadership
Leadership is too often leadership is seen as the job of the chosen few as dictated by the org chart. Let’s move past this arcane concept and change our paradigm. Leadership isn’t for the few; leadership is for the masses. Here is why I know this to be true: Marine Corps boot camp taught me…
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