by Shaun Heuerman | Mar 7, 2024 | Accountability, Creating an Accountability Culture, Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, Employee Training, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth
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...
by Shaun Heuerman | Feb 29, 2024 | Consulting, Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Training, Strategic Planning
Marketing isn’t what it used to be. For many banks, it’s changing how you should be investing your marketing dollars and the strategies that you should be using. Video: Bank Marketing Isn’t What It Used To Be In my book, The Breakthrough Banking Blueprint, I quote...
by Shaun Heuerman | Dec 28, 2023 | Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Training, Strategic Planning
There was a day, back when I started as a commercial and agricultural lender, that we did everything. We did the channel checks, we did the credit analyst work, we did the business development, and we did the account management. We did it all, and we collected the...
by Shaun Heuerman | Nov 30, 2023 | Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Training, Strategic Planning, Workplace Culture
Isn’t it fascinating how for years and years and years, people would fight wars by standing in line with red coats on, in formation, shooting guns, while the other side would come at them when they had guns standing in line, running with swords, thinking that...
by Shaun Heuerman | Nov 16, 2023 | Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Training, Strategic Planning, Workplace Culture
I’m always astonished how difficult we make the Chief Lending Officer’s job. Video: Are You Properly Utilizing Your Team’s Skills?: A Chief Lending Officer Case Study We tell essentially this wonderful human being, who is probably good at credit, “hey,...
by Shaun Heuerman | Nov 9, 2023 | Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Training, Strategic Planning, Workplace Culture
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...
