Culture Archives - Emmerich Financial

A formidable organizational culture score is the foremost predictor of future growth and profitability, as demonstrated by hundreds of organizational development studies. In this episode, let’s delve into a system that, almost invariably, has assisted our clients in elevating their culture scores every…single…year to create a workplace where people can authentically say, “Thank God It’s Monday!”

If you:

Believe your culture is already exceptional but wish to maintain its progress and safeguard it against potential threats, stay with me.

If, on the other hand, you are dispirited because your attempts to enhance culture have not yet manifested in remarkable performance and employee ownership,

Four Key Steps to Stop Crazy-Making Behaviors and Improve Your Workplace Culture [VIDEO]

I believe there are days when a workplace can feel more like an “adult daycare” than an office.

In this first episode, I’ll show you the formula that has transformed many crazy workplaces into places that authentically earned their designations as “best places to work.”

Not just great cultures but performance cultures where everyone ties to profit daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly.

If you’re the kind of leader…

Who feels you have a good culture, but there are just a few people who “stir the pot” and bring in their drama.

How to avoid the “Middle Management Meltdown” [VIDEO]

I believe that when middle managers master management, the resulting breakthroughs are profound and sustainable.

In this episode, I’m going to share with you how to overcome what I call “the middle management breakdown”—the block that keeps executives’ dreams from being the reality executed by the front-line team members.

If you’re the kind of leader who worries that perhaps your managers act more like “individual contributors” and don’t do nearly enough to maximize the results of their team members, I’m going to give you some solid executable ideas to get some traction for your managers.

How to Guarantee Your Employees Won’t “Back Slide” After Your Next Big Initiative [VIDEO]

I believe progress begets progress and success begets success.

In this episode, I’ll show you how you can create a series of successes that open the way for even more impactful successes later on.

On the flipside, stumble once and all your hard work up until then could come tumbling down. I’ll show you how to avoid that eventuality too.

If you’re the kind of leader who is up at night thinking about how to drive through a stubborn performance barrier, listening to this will give you some solid steps to finally have that breakthrough.

New Approach to Tracking Employee Performance, Proven to Increase Profit [VIDEO]

I believe visibility of what matters DRIVES the changes that matter.

In this episode, I will show you how you can create results that matter—those that impact profitability through visibility systems.

If you’re the kind of leader who has every employee already aware of exactly what high performance looks like and you have complete visibility on how every employee is doing on the important things that matter, stay tuned because I’ll share with you another, higher level of performance enhancement.

If instead, you don’t really know how every employee is performing every week AND if the ones who look busiest aren’t really the ones that drive profit,

How To Get Your Team Accountable For Results (Without Alienating Everyone) [VIDEO]

I believe hard work should be rewarded with financial gains.

In this first video and the rest of this five-part series on accountability, I’m going to share with you how to get more accountability from your team members for the things that move the profit needle.

If you’re the kind of leader who has been preaching from the mountain top to your team that they need to “get it together” on accountability, but you feel like you might be mocked as the village idiot soon because it’s not working, you’re going to love this because you CAN break that pattern.

How to tie everyone to PROFIT [VIDEO]

Does every team member on your team know how they tie to profit? I mean really know?

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Keeping Your Top 100 in Your Back Pocket [VIDEO]

During challenging times, the one thing you can count on is that desperate competitors and fly-by-night organizations are going to come in and try to take away your best customers.

Let’s face it, your top 100 customers, for any bank under $2-billion asset size, account for anywhere between 50 to 140% of your profits.

That’s a significant thing to understand. They are precious. They pay for all the bills, and you must, of course, keep all of them.

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Biggest mistake made in strategic planning is… [VIDEO]

What’s the biggest mistake made during a strategic planning day? That’s easy.

Lack of intentional congruence.

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Step-by-Step Blueprint to Get to and Stay in Top 5% Performance

I believe that we all take great pride in legendary performance.

In this episode, I’ll show you how you can have your best year ever and show you the system that doubled the profit in less than three years for over 70% of the stock banks that used it.

If you’re the kind of leader:

…who is already in the top 5% of NIM, growth, ROA, ROE, and Efficiency Ratio, you’re going to love discovering how you can be assured that you’re not at risk of losing your edge as competition gets tougher.