by The Emmerich Group | Jul 9, 2025 | Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Training, High Performance, Hiring for Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Succession Planning, Workplace Culture
Too many community bank board meetings are packed with data—but empty of direction. And that misstep is quietly draining performance. This week, Roxanne unpacks how the Top 5% of banks engineer boardrooms that drive real results: Discover why dumping data doesn’t...
by The Emmerich Group | Jul 2, 2025 | Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Training, High Performance, Hiring for Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Succession Planning, Workplace Culture
Want to know why the top-performing banks in America consistently win awards and crush benchmarks while others plateau? The insider playbook reveals: ✅ They reject cultural drift and chase profit, not volume. ✅ They engineer magnetic cultures that boost referrals and...
by The Emmerich Group | Jun 26, 2025 | Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Training, High Performance, Hiring for Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Succession Planning, Workplace Culture
Most banks obsess over lagging indicators—by the time those metrics show up, the opportunity to fix the problem has passed. Top Gun Bank CEOs flip that equation. They engineer outcomes by focusing on behavior-driven leading indicators that drive revenue and...
by The Emmerich Group | Jun 19, 2025 | Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Training, High Performance, Hiring for Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Succession Planning, Workplace Culture
Midyear Banking Strategy: Accelerate Growth, Don’t Apologize As midyear pressures mount, community banks must lead with agility, not anxiety. This episode gives you the framework to do just that—fast. It’s midyear—a critical checkpoint in your annual banking strategy....
by The Emmerich Group | Jun 12, 2025 | Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Training, High Performance, Hiring for Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Succession Planning, Workplace Culture
If your efficiency ratio strategy is built on budget slashing, you’re playing a losing game. Freezing your training budget. Cutting headcount. Shoving top talent into shared hotel rooms. These aren’t signs of smart leadership—they’re signs of survival-mode thinking....
by The Emmerich Group | Jun 4, 2025 | Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Training, High Performance, Hiring for Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Succession Planning, Workplace Culture
Toxic conflict is draining your bank’s profits—and it’s worse than you think. According to recent research, workplace conflict costs American businesses $359 billion annually in lost productivity. And yes, your bank is part of that equation. Endless unproductive...