by The Emmerich Group | Sep 5, 2024 | Cross-Sales, Customer Success, Deposits, Employee Training, Get More Cross-Sales, Sales & Marketing, Sales Process, Sales Training
I attended my first bank CEO conference several decades ago. You know what the theme was when people talked about cross-sales? They said, “My people are still order takers.” Fast forward a few decades, and CEOs still tell me, “My people are still...
by The Emmerich Group | Aug 15, 2024 | Accountability, Culture, Customer Service, Customer Success, Deposits, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, Employee Training, High Performance, Managing Employees, Profitability and Growth
When I was working on my graduate studies in organizational development, I learned about the concept of learned helplessness. What I’ve discovered is that it’s a significant issue. It’s often the reason why organizations don’t become Top Five...
by The Emmerich Group | Jul 11, 2024 | Capture Profitable Deposits, Customer Success, Deposits, Employee Training, Fast and Low-Risk Loan Growth, Get More Cross-Sales, High Performance, High Quality Loans, Profitability and Growth, Sales Process, Sales Training, Strategic Planning, USP
We know that for banks that have 2 billion in assets that anywhere between 50 to 140% of their profits come from their top 100 most profitable customers. But the real question is how do we find another 100 just like these? Well, they have the same psychographics,...
by The Emmerich Group | Jul 3, 2024 | Customer Success, Employee Training, Get More Cross-Sales, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales Process, Strategic Planning, USP
Several years ago, there was a gentleman who came into our boot camp, and he was an EVP of a bank on the West Coast. He told me that they had hired a firm, spent several hundred thousand dollars, and been in meetings for five months to figure out how to find their...
by The Emmerich Group | Jun 27, 2024 | Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, Employee Training, High Performance, Managing Employees, Sales Process, Sales Training
All of our Top 5% performing banks have something in common. They’ve all mastered the science of team selling. Yeah, I know you think you’re doing team selling because you put Josie and Molly together and you put Tom and Joe together- that’s not...
by The Emmerich Group | Jun 20, 2024 | Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, Employee Training, High Performance, Managing Employees, pop, Profitability and Growth, Sales Process
Most bank CEOs tell me, we have great people, and yet, sometimes they suffer not such great efficiency ratios, return on assets, return on equity. And what they’re really saying is we have good people, but they’re not great because they don’t know...
