Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Out of Mom and Dad’s basement, millennials are primed to become your next best customers. Bauhs is on the tail end of the “millennial” generation, which is commonly defined as those born between 1980 and 2000. This is really the moment for community banks to show that they’re a fit for millennials. By Ed Avis.

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Your Full Potential

JUNE 27, 2016

Poor Leadership. If your leadership isn’t absurdly great, your best and brightest will simply leave. I’ve been through this personally and it just sucks. Great employees will not work for organizations that lie to them. This is a big one. Great employees want to work for great leaders. They will seek out and follow great leaders.

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Your Full Potential

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The Driving Force Behind Making Decisions & Better Leadership” discusses W.I.I.F.M. Is your organization’s leadership ready to get ABSURDLY great? Is your organization’s leadership ready to get ABSURDLY great? A Leadership Thought-System. in greater detail. I hope you enjoyed this series on TRUST. No obligation!

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Your Full Potential

APRIL 11, 2016

Not a terrible question; however, while your inside trainers are more than capable of teaching new hires the benefits of your organization’s specific products and services, they may not be as strong on the soft-skills – leadership, conflict management, project development, sales & service, etc. IT’S ALMOST HERE!

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Your Full Potential

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Are you ready to take your leadership to an ABSURD level? A Leadership Thought-System can help! Be sure to check back on Thursday for Part 3 in this series on Trust : Keeping It. What are your thoughts on TRUST? Share them by commenting. Let’s get a discussion going! Click here for more information.

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Your Full Potential

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The Driving Force Behind Making Decisions & Better Leadership” discusses WIIFM in greater detail. Is your organization’s leadership ready to get ABSURDLY great? A Leadership Thought-System. Human logic and reasoning are in no small part based on WIIFM Have a GREAT Value Proposition and deliver on that value promise.

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Your Full Potential

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The Driving Force Behind Making Decisions and Better Leadership. A Leadership Thought-System. It needs to be outstanding. Keep an eye out for my upcoming book, What’s In It For Me? It will be out in approximately 30 days!! Also, you might want to take a look at ABSURD! – No obligation!

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Van Valkenburg, VP & human resources (HR) specialist; Brett Hoover, SVP & HR director; Misti Stanton, VP & DEI officer; and Johnna Staat, HR AVP. This could be as simple as ensuring there are meat-free options for vegetarians at every company event, or as involved as establishing culturally specific employee resource groups.

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Your Full Potential

JANUARY 26, 2016

As I sat there digging into my Thai Shrimp Salad (fabulous, by the way,) a gentleman who I assumed to be the Manager began to speak softly to the young lady who was tending bar. It went something like this: Manager: “Is there any reason that you didn’t answer the phone just now?”. Manager: “OK. Manager: “It’s cool.”.

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Your Full Potential

MARCH 30, 2016

That’s why you also budget an appropriate amount of money and resources for those items. Once identified and agreed upon, make sure to budget for the various action steps for each initiative. Will things “come up” that may need immediate attention? No more excuses!

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Your Full Potential

JULY 7, 2016

Organizations need 3 things to survive: new business, repeat business, and referral business. In today’s post, we’re going to discuss repeat business. How do you get consumers to come back to you after that first purchase? The secret lies in what is necessary to build relationships with people.

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Your Full Potential

AUGUST 11, 2016

Last week, I provided a list of things that a person should be doing in order to truly L.E.A.D. Here is Part 2 using the same acronym (L.E.A.D.). True leaders are always listening. They know how important it is to keep an open ear to the members of their teams.

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Your Full Potential

JULY 12, 2016

Service is one of the cornerstones of an organization’s success. If your service levels stink, you’re not going to grow. Here are 3 ways to improve your company’s service levels: Constantly and consistently demonstrate VALUE. Yes, this section is repeated from last week’s post because it is so vital!) question.

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Your Full Potential

JUNE 14, 2016

An organization’s culture is an extension of its Value Proposition. If the Value Proposition is the answer to the question, “why should anyone do business with you, ever?” ” then culture is the methodology that is used to come up with that answer.

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Your Full Potential

MAY 31, 2016

Back from my “road trip” odyssey/hiatus!! I’ve been “on the road” for much of the last month or so but I’m back in the saddle now and happy to bring you the latest blog post from Your Full Potential! Let’s talk about innovation. We hear a lot about it. You may be innovators yourselves. Or you may work for an innovative organization.

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Your Full Potential

MARCH 17, 2016

First, Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! It’s a gloomy, rainy day here in Houston, completely unbefitting the holiday. But I digress…. But as I was sitting on my patio early this morning surrounded by the gloominess, I was also able to reflect on the so-called “bright side” of things – hence, this post was born in my mind.

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Your Full Potential

JANUARY 29, 2016

Welcome to the first in a 3-part series on TRUST. Let’s talk about EARNING it. By far, this is the step in the process that takes the longest. It takes hard work and considerable effort. Trusting others and being trustworthy yourself are so very important to operate a business successfully.

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Your Full Potential

JANUARY 22, 2016

Disney’s “ Magic ,” Southwest Airlines’ “ Company Spirit,” and Zappos’ “ WOW Philosophy.” These and other great organizations don’t necessarily focus on the products they sell. They know that if they are able to provide a memorable and extraordinary experience , the products will sell themselves. Sure, they have product development teams.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Community bank marketing resources. With market opportunity heating up and big bank and big credit union competitors hitting hard, too many community banks lack marketing resources … or they have 2X more spending in sponsorships than the campaigns, analytics and digital sales improvements that actually bring in new business.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Big announcements like JP Morgan Chase’s to hike the pay of 22,000 workers and build 400 new branches certainly had bankers inspired to show some level of investment and even civic leadership from the tax break. In addition to a historic tax cut, bankers were equally excited by the shifting winds and tone of the regulatory environment.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Since Richman and about 100 other bankers from LaSalle Bank in Chicago joined PrivateBancorp nearly a decade ago, the bank has grown to an $18 billion solid niche player with $10 billion in assets under management. Hats off to a decade of strong leadership and hard work. Gonzo Lifetime Leadership Award – John Glenn.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Since Richman and about 100 other bankers from LaSalle Bank in Chicago joined PrivateBancorp nearly a decade ago, the bank has grown to an $18 billion solid niche player with $10 billion in assets under management. Hats off to a decade of strong leadership and hard work. Gonzo Lifetime Leadership Award – John Glenn.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

It’s almost as bad as saying it’s the “Year of The Sloth” – since, let’s face it, pigs are not typically prized for their wisdom, energy, vision or leadership qualities across the animal kingdom. Chinese tradition, however, takes a different view.

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