Hold out your hand: Lessons from Brandi Carlile
Many of us in the Pacific Northwest have known and loved Brandi Carlile for years. When she won big at the 2019 Grammys and stole the show with her stunning ...
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How CEOs can help support business development
Dear CEOs, Business development can be effective without CEO involvement but your support can help in opening more doors. Business development is a team sport and you are the coaches ...
Financial wellness begins with your employees
A couple weeks ago I was collaborating with a business development leader at a credit union about different ways to go about creating a financial wellness educational program that can ...
Business development: Reflecting on relationships
Are your SEG and community contacts more likely to take your call, join you for a quick virtual meeting or ghost you? This past year has decidedly confirmed the belief ...
A missing link
On the surface, our business partners and SEG HR leaders understand the value a credit union partnership offers their employees and business, but there is a missing link – the ...
Business development needs branch managers
Dear Branch Managers: Business development is a team sport that needs your active participation to be on top of its game. Influencers in your branch market area, local organizations/associations, ...
Lifestyle education creates business development opportunities
For the past two months I have been going on socially distant walks with my neighbor, Shannon Quimby. She is an international salvage DIY luminary, photo stylist for magazines like ...
Business development from a distance
We business development professionals thrive on interacting, helping people face to face, being in our communities and at our SEGs. But now, during these unprecedented times, we are being challenged ...