by Taylor W. Wells | Strategic Planning
How many people attend your credit union or bank’s strategic planning session? Ten? Twelve? More? Regardless of the number of voices, have you ever paused to really consider just how many are actually heard? By “heard” I mean people that, either on...
by Mark Arnold | Strategic Planning
As you age, you tend to think more about your eyesight and vision. It’s only natural that the older we get the quality of how we see tends to diminish. Whether you are already wearing corrective lenses or “readers” it’s only a matter of time before your lenses get...
by Mark Arnold | Strategic Planning
What’s the difference between a successful planning session and an unsuccessful planning session for your credit union or bank? Execution. Execution makes all the difference. As strategic planning season gears up for financial institutions around the country,...
by Mark Arnold | Strategic Planning
Many credit union and bank executives dread strategic planning. It’s the same routine year after year, and decisions made at the strategic planning session are rarely addressed again until the next session…a year later. But it doesn’t have to be this...
by Mark Arnold | Strategic Planning
Successful relationships require proactivity. If I don’t proactively schedule time with my wife, our relationship suffers. Successful health requires proactivity. If I don’t proactively plan nourishing meals, my overall health suffers. Successful leadership requires...
by Mark Arnold | Strategic Planning
What are you passionate about? That’s a question my daughters would hear often when they were deciding where to go to college, what to study and what job to take. (Clearly, asking the question has worked out especially well for one of them.) That question is also the...
by Taylor W. Wells | Strategic Planning
After making the decision to grow a beard, I was surprised by the large variety of beard care products targeted toward men. It took a while to weed through customer reviews and try out a few before I found a product brand that worked best for me. After a few months of...
by Mark Arnold | Strategic Planning
I’m an optimist—even in the midst of challenging times I do my best to stay positive. However, there is a looming negative cloud on the horizon we in financial services must address: the potential of a coming recession. Talk to any economist or read any economic...
