by Shaun Heuerman | Sep 3, 2020 | Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Process, Sales Training, Strategic Planning, Workplace Culture
Finally, my new book is out—The Breakthrough Banking Blueprint. It occurred to me years ago when I had the great honor of working with the top franchise company in this country, which was awarded top franchise year in and year while I worked with them, doing their...
by Shaun Heuerman | Aug 27, 2020 | Effective Leadership, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales Training
Profitable loan growth is the name of the game, but it’s not just profitable—it’s having profit, safety, and growth all done together. When I wrote my very first book, Profit-Growth Banking, I talked about how I’m impressed by banks that have a great ROA...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jul 22, 2020 | 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 | Jul 16, 2020 | 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. We tell essentially this wonderful human being, who is probably good at credit, “hey, you’re in charge of finding your team members”; “you’re in charge of making sure...
by Shaun Heuerman | Feb 11, 2020 | Bank Marketing, Customer Success, Sales Process, Sales Training
If you’re feeling trapped in rate competition, you’re in “Commodity Hell”… and it’s not a fun place. When your customers and prospects view you as no different than the bank down the street, you create a situation where...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jan 14, 2020 | Sales Training
Most banks have three solutions they implement in the hope of having a breakthrough to increasing revenue that generates high profits: They hire more lenders. They ask each lender to make more calls. They hope one of those two plans work. However, they hardly...