The Credit Union Leadership Podcast ServiStar Consulting

Whether you are a leader or not, you have a part to play in the GROW model. You can contribute to creating a culture that people want to be a part of. Scott & Scott talk about practical credit union applications of the GROW model. And guess what? It's all built on trust.
 
In this episode we cover:
What is the problem we are fixing with team building?
What is the GROW model and how do we put it to action?
Discomfort is a product of growth. How can we mitigate the discomfort?
Trust destroying moments you will face and how to respond.
 
 
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
 
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Is your performance management system stale and uninspiring? We all agree that creating a motivating environment is crucial to coaching our team to be a high performing credit union. But how do we effectively motivate our managers to coach for performance? COO of CU1 comes on and shares a highly effective tool she has created to inspire managers to coach their team for performance.
 
In this episode we cover:
Finding your four pillars to build your brand.
How to make these four pillars something you and your team talk about every day, all the time.
Culture Kits - what are they and how they create a motivating environment
As a leader of leaders, how you lead by example by catching people doing it right.
 
 
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How do we prepare for evaluations? Do we have a thought process in place that helps us boast in our accomplishments while being aware of the situation and people around us? We bring on Founder of Young Professionals Team Affinity Group at UNIFY Credit Union, Sarah Thompson to hear how we can use the refinement process to prepare for evaluations and more! 
 
In this episode we cover:
Using the Refinement Process to find your gold.
How using the Refinement Process can decrease the frequent issues you have.
What it looks like to be a grounded optimist.
 
 
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Our jobs are changing, our lives our changing. Change is hard. Everyone is talking about the rapidly changing technology like AI and Crypto, but are we talking about how do we mentally prepare ourselves and our team for change? We bring on Amazon bestselling author, CUNA "Credit Union Rockstar" and CU Times "Under 40 Trailblazer," James Robert Lay, to talk about how to we lead ourselves in personal and professional change.
 
In this episode we cover:
The idea of exponential growth.
Reframing past experiences for exponential growth.
Understanding The 4 Fires of Fear and using 7 C's to grow ourselves and our team in the age of AI.
 
 
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We are moving to an entirely different world. All of the financial institutions are fintech catering to growing consumer demands to get banking done in real time. We bring on futurist, Brett King, the author of Banking 4.0 to cover the epic reframing of how we must think of banking.
 
In this episode we cover:
How banking will reframe in the next 30 years.
Who are the fastest growing financial institutions.
King announces that he is working on a new book!
Peak number of branches and what that number is predicted to be in 2030
 
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There is a myth that a strong team is all about the chemistry of the people. We bust that myth with Jim Collison by talking about how the intentional decisions of the leader can build a high performing team. Collison is the CliftonStrengths Community Manager for Gallup and produce Gallup's Called to Coach and the ClifonStrengths Webcasts 
 
In this episode we cover:
What are CliftonStrengths
Why the benefits of using CliftonStrengths can be life changing to yourself and your team.
How to use CliftonStrengths to better understand how to best utilize your team.
Which strengths are best utilized in a sales role and how to use your strengths to maximize your position.
Creating rules based on self-awareness to best serve our team and members.
 
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Live your best life by taking the CliftonStrengths Assessment today!
 
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