by The Emmerich Group | May 22, 2025 | Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, High Performance, Managing Employees, Marketing Plan, Profitability and Growth, Workplace Culture
Here’s a hard truth: If your culture isn’t actively generating profit, it’s silently draining it. Most bank executives try to fix performance by hiring more people, launching values campaigns, or sending leaders to retreats. But if your bank’s performance...
by The Emmerich Group | May 1, 2025 | Cross-Sales, Culture, Deposits, Get More Cross-Sales, High Performance, Increase Net Interest Margin, NIM, Profitability and Growth, Workplace Culture
The Cross-Sales Myth That’s Costing Your Bank Millions If “our people just need to do more” actually worked, you’d already be at 8.0 cross-sales per customer—and popping champagne every month. But you’re not. Because knowing doesn’t drive results. Systems do. Culture...
by The Emmerich Group | Mar 13, 2025 | Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Employee Engagement, Strategic Planning
Does every team member on your team know how they tie to profit? I mean really know? When a study published in Businessweek revealed they had asked 6,000 employees, “Do you perform in the top 10 percent?” more than 90 percent said they performed in the top...
by The Emmerich Group | Nov 21, 2024 | Accountability, Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Workplace Culture
Trick question for you. What is the number one motivator for employees? Every time I talk with executives, they often suggest that paying employees more—up to a certain level—is the answer. Sure, research supports this to some extent, but that’s not the full...
by The Emmerich Group | Nov 14, 2024 | Accountability, Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Workplace Culture
In talking to hundreds of bank CEOs, I’ve heard the same repeated message. We’ve got good people. They have good customer service skills, but they don’t really know how to bring in the entire relationship at premium pricing,...
by The Emmerich Group | Nov 7, 2024 | Accountability, Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Workplace Culture
Many of us dream of working in an environment that energizes us and is surrounded by competence. In this episode, I’ll discuss how you can improve your organization’s culture—the leading predictor of future growth and profitability—in just a matter of...