by The Emmerich Group | Dec 18, 2025 | Customer Service, Customer Success, Effective Leadership
Boards want certainty. Markets refuse to give it. That tension is where many community banks make their biggest strategic mistake—building plans based on interest rate assumptions that no one can actually predict. Wars, inflation, policy shifts, and government...
by The Emmerich Group | Dec 18, 2025 | Customer Service, Customer Success, Effective Leadership
Christmas creates space to pause—and for bank leaders, that pause matters. In the rush of targets, margins, and metrics, it’s easy to forget the deeper reason community banks exist. This week’s video is a reminder that your influence extends far beyond...
by The Emmerich Group | Oct 29, 2025 | Accountability, Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Customer Service, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Sales Process, Workplace Culture
Rate matching is quietly destroying profitability at community banks—and it’s completely optional. In this video, you’ll discover how to replace “Can you match the rate?” with disciplined, believable USPs that command premium pricing and win bigger balances without...
by The Emmerich Group | Oct 23, 2025 | Accountability, Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Customer Service, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Sales Process, Workplace Culture
Most “team selling” in banking is theater—two people show up, nobody owns the moment, and profit walks out the door. In this video, Roxanne Emmerich lays out what real team selling looks like and why it’s clobbering the lone-wolf model—when you run it with precision....
by The Emmerich Group | Oct 16, 2025 | Accountability, Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Customer Service, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Workplace Culture
“Pretty good” service is killing your brand. Community banks don’t win on “fine”—they win on “WOW.” In this episode, we expose why most service initiatives fade and how top-performing banks engineer daily “that was amazing” moments that customers can’t stop talking...
by The Emmerich Group | Feb 27, 2025 | Customer Service, Customer Success, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales Process, Sales Training, Strategic Planning, USP
I hear the same thing everywhere I go—”We need to build an accountability culture!” Great idea, right? But here’s the problem: we’ve been saying this for decades, and most organizations haven’t moved the needle. So why do we keep talking about the same...
