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 | Sep 4, 2025 | Accountability, Effective Leadership, High Performance, Profitability and Growth
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most bank boards are strategic liabilities. Long meetings. Thick packets. Zero growth traction. This week’s episode pulls back the curtain on why most banks fail before the planning even starts—and how top-performing banks use their...
by The Emmerich Group | Aug 28, 2025 | Accountability, Effective Leadership, High Performance, Profitability and Growth
Your Board Might Be the Silent Killer of Performance Your board isn’t broken.They’re just working with a blindfold on—and no one’s bothered to tear it off. They get the numbers, the decks, the updates.But not the strategy.Not the cultural signals.Not the execution...
by The Emmerich Group | Aug 21, 2025 | Accountability, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Strategic Planning
Burn the To-Do List. Your Strategic Plan Is a Lie. Let’s stop pretending. Most bank “strategic plans” are elaborate theater—packed with buzzwords, layered in charts, but built on a foundation of… nothing. This week, Roxanne Emmerich calls out the sham…...
by The Emmerich Group | Aug 14, 2025 | High Performance
Top-tier banks don’t “try harder.” They architect outcomes. Every. Single. Day. They aren’t waiting on lagging reports or motivational posters to spark change. They’ve wired their culture to make performance inevitable—by tying behavior to results, coaching in real...
by The Emmerich Group | Aug 7, 2025 | High Performance
Most banks are sleepwalking through “change.” They swap out posters. Launch a sales contest. Send staff to a flavor-of-the-month training. Meanwhile, the top 5% of banks are engineering systems so tight, so precise, and so uncopyable… the rest of the industry gets...
