Budgeting for the Budget

Budgeting for the Budget

There’s more prep and planning needed when making a budget than most people realize, and there are many items and considerations that go unaccounted for. Amber Jecks offers tools and tips on how to create a budget that meets your goals and plans for the unexpected.

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The Importance of Standard Operating Procedures

The Importance of Standard Operating Procedures

Creating a set of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for any position can be time-consuming, but the effort is worth the outcome. Annalise Runkel details just a few of the benefits SOPs bring an organization and why updating them is critical.

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Engaging Remote Workers: Three Tips from a CEO

Engaging Remote Workers: Three Tips from a CEO

In the years since the pandemic, it has become abundantly clear that remote work is here to stay. But how can employers and employees make the best of it and ensure things run smoothly? University Credit Union CEO David Tuyo offers three tips to help make remote work as beneficial as possible.

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How Can Today’s Automotive Trends Help Credit Unions Refocus Their Membership Growth Strategies For 2024?

How Can Today’s Automotive Trends Help Credit Unions Refocus Their Membership Growth Strategies For 2024?

In order to prepare their growth strategies for 2024, Mark Edmundson offers a view of past and current trends in the automotive industry and what said trends might signal for the upcoming year.

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CUSO Identifies Opportunity in Underutilized Credit Union Owner Investment Authority

CUSO Identifies Opportunity in Underutilized Credit Union Owner Investment Authority

The multi-credit union-owned operational services CUSO, Xtend, analyzed the available CUSO investment dollars represented in its credit union owners. Vic Pantea explains the results of the analysis and the opportunities possible, and why more credit unions should be taking them.

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Banking’s Hidden Risk: Cyber Insurance Coverage Gaps, Exclusions, and Denied Claims

Banking’s Hidden Risk: Cyber Insurance Coverage Gaps, Exclusions, and Denied Claims

Cyber insurance has become essential in the past few years, with regulators expecting it of their credit unions, and many credit unions expecting it of borrowers. However, there are gaps in insurance that can leave businesses, and in turn credit unions, open to risk, says expert Brett Helm.

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Proven Practices to Drive Growth

Proven Practices to Drive Growth

Kevin Mummau of Atria Wealth offers proven strategies to help your credit union grow its member base and embrace new technologies to help meet your goals.

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Our Industry and Cybersecurity in 2023 and Beyond

Our Industry and Cybersecurity in 2023 and Beyond

As we head into Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Matt Sawtell examines the current state of cybersecurity in the credit union industry, where it’s going, and what credit unions should be doing to improve their security and prepare for increasingly high demands in examinations and insurance.

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The Power of Empathy in Sales

The Power of Empathy in Sales

When it comes to sales, it can be all too tempting to put the money before the member. Sales expert Nick Green provides insight on how selling with empathy builds trust and creates a member-first mentality that can lead to more cross-selling success.

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Resumes Almost Always Lie: How to Identify the Right Talent and Interview Through the Façade

Resumes Almost Always Lie: How to Identify the Right Talent and Interview Through the Façade

No resume is a completely accurate representation of a candidate, they are curated and often exaggerated snapshots of what the applicant wants you to see. Phil Bacalia offers advice on how to find the true person beneath the resume jargon and determine the best candidate for the position.

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