Are You Driving Your Career or Just Along for the Ride?
All too often, people become relaxed in their positions and simply wait for the next opportunity to come their way instead of actively seeking it out. John Beauchamp urges professionals to get behind the wheel and start making moves to get the position they want, as opposed to sitting in the passenger seat of their career.
CUSO Women Sets the Blueprint for Employee Empowerment
Nicole Cooper discusses the creation of CUSO Women, an employee group working to create a culture that empowers women to reach their full potential and grow as leaders, and the benefits that such a group brings to an organization.
Team Building from Within
Team building should not start and end with trust exercises and group activities, it should happen every day around the office in small conversations and cooperation. So how can managers achieve this? Laura Welch-Vilker offers insight.
Leadership Topics: The Secret of Employee Empowerment
Empowering your employees is essential to creating a positive work environment and improving your business. But how do you go about cultivating an atmosphere of empowerment? Alycia Meyers weighs in.
Protect Your Credit Union’s Future with a People Development Life Cycle
What is your credit union’s long term vision for its staff? CUSO Magazine’s Esteban Camargo discusses why you need a People Development Life Cycle to manage succession events and protect the future of your organization.
Transparency: the Co-op Leader’s Advantage
Transparency is an essential element of good leadership, argues Chip Filson. But how do CEOs achieve such openness and how can a CEO evaluate their success?
Leadership Topics: the Art of Delegation
Those in leadership positions can often be hesitant to delegate work, feeling that everything is their responsibility or that handing off tasks will result in less-than-perfect results. Letting go of such ideas can be difficult, but as Alycia Meyers notes, it benefits both the leader and their team in the long run.
Practice What You Preach: Connecting with Employees
It’s one thing to preach a friendly work culture and tote open-door policies, but it’s another to actively practice them. As a long-term employee turned recent executive, Dawn Moore explains how she and her fellow managers connect with team members across the organization.
The Struggle to Show Authentic Gratitude at Work
When it comes to showing gratitude in the workplace, it can feel like something we often express out of habit, not sincerity. But gratitude should be given often and authentically to coworkers, bosses, and staff alike, argues Alycia Meyers, and she has a few ideas on how to begin making gratitude a consistent part of your company’s work culture.
Geoff Johnson: Goals, Changes, and Lessons Learned During His First Year As CEO of CU*Answers
At the end of his first year as CEO of CU*Answers, CUSO Magazine sat down with Geoff Johnson to discuss his favorite moments, lessons learned, and plans for the coming year.
