Leadership skills to ensure effectiveness and relevancy

Credit unions ranked these 11 practices as the most needed by industry leaders over the next three to five years.

In the fall of 2021, CUES worked with TalentTelligent, a research-based talent management tool provider, to conduct research to determine the most critical credit union leader behaviors needed to drive effectiveness and relevancy for the industry in the next three to five years. Respondents to the survey included credit unions across asset sizes and geography and individuals from staff level all the way up the board across CU functions.

This survey was designed to paint a broad brush across the industry to elevate the mission-critical roles and practices needed by our leaders to ensure effectiveness and relevancy over the near term (three to five years). As the industry and your organization continue to shift, new and different success profiles will be needed to ensure the behaviors you need from your leaders match the outcomes you aim to accomplish.

The most important practices identified by the respondents are as follows, rank-ordered based on aggregate average:

  1. Vision and strategy formation

 

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