Leveraging credit union leadership team strengths with working genius

Community bank and credit union leadership teams are incredibly diverse. Your leaders have a wide range of skillsets, interests and opinions. Certain executives might even seem like oil and water with each other – so far apart in leadership styles that it hurts the group.

But those “oil and water” differences aren’t always a bad thing.

In fact, they are strengths you must learn to leverage effectively. Patrick Lencioni’s Working Genius model teaches six types of “geniuses” make up the workflow. Each one is necessary for successfully meeting your goals.

As Pegeen Singley, SVP of Administration at Centric FCU, says:

 

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