by The Emmerich Group | Oct 2, 2025 | Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, Employee Training, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth
Welcome to the new frontier. It’s fast. It’s unforgiving. And it just changed the rules of your business without asking for permission. AI isn’t the threat. Stale thinking is. In this video, Roxanne Emmerich takes off the gloves and exposes what no banker wants to...
by The Emmerich Group | Sep 24, 2025 | Bank Acquisitions, Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing
Most Bank Mergers Fail. Here’s What the Top 1% Do Differently. Your plan won’t save you.
Not in a merger. Not in disruption. Not when the pressure’s on.
Because plans don’t execute themselves—people do. And if your culture can’t carry the weight, the whole thing...
by The Emmerich Group | Sep 11, 2025 | Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing
Most banks lie to themselves about culture. They treat it like window dressing—something HR manages, or worse, a “culture committee” babysits with doughnuts and posters. And then they wonder why execution crumbles, margins shrink, and their best talent bolts for...
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,...
