by Shaun Heuerman | Aug 5, 2021 | Culture, Profitability and Growth, Strategic Planning
If you knew what the very top-performing banks knew, could you become a top-performing bank? I think there’s a strong possibility. In banking, there are some secrets that many of the top-performing banks hold close to their chest because they don’t want...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jul 29, 2021 | Culture, Profitability and Growth, Strategic Planning
If strategic plans actually exist to create predictable growth, profit, and bank culture, why is it that most of them do the opposite? Why is it that in most banks in America, the strategic plans don’t get implemented? Why do I hear from hundreds of bank CEOs...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jun 10, 2021 | Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Process, Sales Training, Strategic Planning
When I first left day-to-day banking to start this business, my first client was voted every year as the country’s top franchise. Although I did their management development curriculum and educated their people about how to run that business, one of the things...
by Shaun Heuerman | May 20, 2021 | Deposits, High Quality Loans, Increase Net Interest Margin, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Strategic Planning
Everyone has patterns of disbelief. Some people believe that in politics, there is one side or the other, and they’re unwilling to look at the alternative. Still others believe that the moon is made of cheese. You may have a belief system that’s true. You...
by Shaun Heuerman | Mar 31, 2021 | High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Strategic Planning
Let’s think through profitability for a second. Profitability has different meanings to different people because profitability by itself doesn’t mean much. When I first wrote the Profit-Growth Banking book before the last recession, I talked about how...
by Shaun Heuerman | Mar 10, 2021 | High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Strategic Planning
Team selling is the new “it.” But most banks get it all wrong, sadly. They think team selling is “I send Joe out with Susie, and Pat goes out with Jane … and everything is good.” That is not team selling. Harvard Business Review had an instructive research-based...
