Stop Matching the Competition [VIDEO]

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...

Your Team Selling Checklist [VIDEO]

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....

How Community Banks Deliver WOW Customer Service [VIDEO]

“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...

Accountabilibuddies: The Power of Mutual Accountability [VIDEO]

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...

Second Order Thinking—No More ‘Pedestrian Thinking’ [VIDEO]

I have a book that I love—a book I read a couple of times last year and still reference often. It’s called Intelligent Thinking—which, let’s be honest, sounds like a pretty good thing to do. On pages 58 and 59, the author introduces a powerful concept: first-order...

Buy-In Blueprint: Behavioral Economics at Work [VIDEO]

Are you still working off a to-do list? Well, I’ve got a suggestion for you: throw that list out—and do it now! Not all tasks are created equal, and that’s a big reason why so many organizations never really reach a point of thriving. They don’t take the time to...