Managers: This Is Your Circus and These Are Your Monkeys
As a manager, are you trusting in your team members and helping them to grow, or are you micromanaging? Ashley Melder offers insight into how a leader’s management style can impact their team as well as employee retention, and where managers should be willing to step in or step back.
The Icarus Syndrome: What’s Holding Credit Union Leaders Back
Just as Icarus took a fatal fall after flying too close to the sun, marketing expert Bo McDonald warns that credit union leaders may be on ther verge of making a similar mistake by forgetting their original mission and becoming overconfident or complacent in their business.
Go the Extra Mile — Just Don’t Drag the Team Behind You
Nick Green of Route 31 Credit Union discusses the three devastating Ds of leadership: disconnect, delay, and distraction, and how you as a leader can overcome those to create a workplace your employees are proud to be a part of.
Legacy In Action: How the Credit Union Movement Shapes Us and How We Shape It
As Credit Union History Month continues, Julie Gessner asks credit unions to take a moment to reflect on their own history and ponder the legacy they are leaving behind and how it may impact the credit union movement.
A Conversation About the Times
Chip Filson shares the outcome of a long conversation with a credit union CEO on the industry shift from member-focused organizations to growth-driven ones, and how the industry can start shifting back toward its cooperative foundation.
Taxation is Not a Systemic Threat to Credit Unions
As the industry celebrates the recent tax-exemption win, Chip Filson issues a stark reminder that taxation is not the biggest threat the industry faces. Instead, the real danger is coming from inside the industry and the erosion of the member-owner role.
The Characteristics of a Successful Credit Union Leader: Is It You?
As the industry faces many hurdles, Bo McDonald encourages credit union leaders to step up to the plate and out of the box to find unique solutions to overcome these challenges.
Form Follows Function Even in Credit Unions
Like the Wainwright Building in Chicago or many species of animal on Earth, credit unions were originally formed to function in a certain way. But has the form evolved away from that function and what does that mean to the future of the industry, Chip Filson wonders.
Sink or Swim: Lessons Learned in Leadership
John Ballantyne shares the hard-earned lessons in leadership he discovered while launching a CUSO in the middle of a pandemic and how these lessons can be applied at your credit union.
Risky Business: Why Leaders Should Consider the Unknown
Route 31 Credit Union’s Nick Green says waiting might be a bigger risk than taking the leap into new business ventures. Green shares what he believes good leaders must do to ensure their businesses don’t stagnate.
