by Mark Arnold | Aug 14, 2019 | 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 | Jul 31, 2019 | 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 | May 8, 2019 | 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 | Mar 20, 2019 | 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 | Mar 12, 2019 | 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 | Mar 6, 2019 | 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...
by Mark Arnold | Jan 9, 2019 | Strategic Planning
Public relations and crisis management are strategic planning issues many credit union and bank executives fail to prioritize. Casey Boggs knows better than most just what ramifications that kind of neglect can have. Casey, a public relations veteran, friend and...
by Taylor W. Wells | Dec 19, 2018 | Strategic Planning
It’s Christmastime again, which means family and friends are running about making preparations for the big day. Shopping, cooking, cards, all that fun stuff. Many families will drop hints with children asking some variation of the age-old question “What do...
