by Shaun Heuerman | Jul 2, 2015 | Effective Leadership
Even though it was 20 years ago, I remember it like it was yesterday. One of the attendees at a bank CEO conference came up after my speech and began to lecture me. “There’s one distinction you’re missing, Roxanne. We bankers, we’re like...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jun 25, 2015 | Effective Leadership
I’ve seen it happen a million times. Managers tell me, “But we told them what to do, showed them how to do it…and they’re still not doing it.” Financial institutions actually have more of a challenge with this. Because every workday involves quantifiable numbers, the...
by Shaun Heuerman | May 21, 2015 | Effective Leadership
Something’s gotta give. New research shows that employees are exhausted to the core. The stresses of the workplace are so far beyond the good ol’ days. Remember when we used to take lunches together every day off site? Me neither. Well, it’s been a...
by Shaun Heuerman | Feb 4, 2015 | Effective Leadership
Are you playing the wrong game? One of my favorite movie lines of all time is from The Greatest Game Ever Played, a golf drama based on the true story of the 1913 US Open. Twenty-year-old Francis Ouimet was challenging his idol, Englishman Harry Vardon, who had...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jan 28, 2015 | Effective Leadership
Are you as good as you think you are? Whether the economy gets better or not is out of your control. But YOU getting better—that’s entirely in your control, and it’s non-negotiable. As a leader, YOU set the standards. And this year, those standards had...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jan 16, 2012 | Effective Leadership
“It’s Hollywood!” my grandfather said as he watched the first man land on the moon. “That’s not really happening.” From the viewpoint of my grandfather—who still owned the horses on his farm till the day he died because he did not trust that tractors were really the...
