Mentoring and leadership go hand-in-hand
During my 45-year career in financial services, I was a mentor and a mentee many times. Taking the time to be a mentor and to be mentored was important because everyone benefitted from my doing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mentoring’
Mentoring through storytelling
Communicating well is not only an intellectual exercise. To really connect with people, especially their emotions, we need to bring them into our experience. Stories do that. When you paint a picture with your words, [...]
Credit union leadership training and mentoring
Leadership is rarely something that is arbitrarily given. Rather, leadership is earned. If you’re already a credit union leader, you still must earn your position every day. That goes double for aspiring leaders, who [...]
Finding time and energy for mentoring
We all know how difficult it is to find the time to complete tasks associated with our daily work duties, much less to find time for such additional activities as mentoring. So why do people [...]
The CUInsight Experience podcast: Adrian Johnson – Culture of caring (#28)
Welcome to episode 28 of The CUInsight Experience podcast. Hosted by Randy Smith, co-founder and publisher of CUInsight.com. Today’s guest is Adrian Johnson the senior vice president and chief financial officer of MECU [...]
6 tips for creating future leaders
Part of being a leader is ensuring you put the right people at the top of your organization. Developing future leaders takes time and effort, but can make your job a lot easier if done [...]
Strategic mentoring in your credit union
During a webinar on strategic mentoring presented for CUES in September, Tony Kirschner, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. and partner at Davies Park Executive Search, a CUES strategic partner, pointed to these issues which [...]
Position the building blocks of talent management for solid ROI
Think about how you manage big expenses at your credit union. When you build a new branch, for example, you don’t just open it and let it sit there. You invest in keeping the [...]
Leadership: Don’t leave it to amateurs
If you were to describe your leadership style, what would you say? If you were to define the leadership style of your credit union what adjectives would you use? Like it or not, we all [...]
Calling all leaders, young and old
"A title doesn't make you a leader any more than a bedazzled jumpsuit makes you Elvis." You know how some people talk about going to a mall or airport to “people watch” or whatever they [...]
The three types of mentors (and which one you need now)
I launched my career coaching practice in 2013 with the hope of changing the world for 20 and 30something job hunters. It might sound like a lofty goal, but after going from a dead-end, $30k [...]
Punish or Pamper?
On CBS Morning there was a piece titled Punish or Pamper. The piece was about how to maximize productivity in the workplace. Why is this an either/or issue? Is managing a team really just [...]
CEOs Are Terrible At Management, Study Finds
by Susan Adams A new study shows that CEOs are doing a lousy job when it comes to people management. The study, a joint project by the Center for Leadership Development and Research at Stanford’[...]