Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That’s exactly the question that Los Angeles Regional Food Bank CEO Michael Flood and his team had to answer and act on this year. The food that those folks receive from the Food Bank enables them to pay for other necessities like health insurance. It was up to the Food Bank to keep them fed while they waited.

Banking 246

Banking Rogers Leadership Tourism 246

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2023

This represents a growth in global GDP of 6%, which to put that into context is slightly higher than the recent economic forecast from the World Bank of the hit to global GDP from COVID-19. In the first round, ethnically diverse teams raised 30% more VC funds on average than teams with only white founders in low-diversity sectors.

Diversity 117

Diversity GDP Succession Team 117

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

We then turned to the team, and the team seemed a little broken or frozen or stuck into what to do next. Where are the needs of the project or team? Once you get the root cause identified, whatever it may or may not be, you have to build solution statements or a solution bank. . What are the opportunities?

Team 183

Team SWOT Project Innovation 183

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Here is a selection of Posts from December 2023 that you will want to check out: Leadership Development is Indeed Failing Us—Time for a New Approach by @artpetty Be Treated Respectfully: How to Set Limits w/ Pushy People by @KateNasser Paradoxes of Life by @SahilBloom All Together Now by @morganhousel When you realize how susceptible you are to others’ (..)

Sharpe 270

Sharpe Banking Advice Trends 270

Great Results Team Building

APRIL 1, 2020

Are you and your team are stuck in quarantine and unable to maintain your daily interactions with each other over the next few weeks? . Are you and your team separated as part of a virtual team that has teammates at different locations permanently? . Describe “Your Road” to the Team.

Team 172

Team Commitment Learning-by-Doing Teamwork 172

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 29, 2023

Frank and Joe were brought into a crew to commit a bank heist. Each man had their reason for being on the team. He wanted to ensure the team would hit the bank, get the score, and get out safely. Do you know your team members’ strengths ? Do you know what they add to the team? The bank heist went bad.

Contingency Plans 265

Contingency Plans Leadership Reputation Banking 265

Mills Scofield

APRIL 30, 2023

shutterstock I want to share the amazing work of Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio*. This is not about virtue signaling, but rather my admiration and respect for their foresightful planning , impact, and gratitude for their CEO, Julie Chase-Morefield and team.

Banking 172

Banking Constraint Strategic Planning Retail 172

Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Growing up playing sports, coaching my kids’ sports teams, and being a sports fan in general has taught me numerous lessons about life and leadership. However, the most important lesson I’ve learned about being part of a successful team, or leading one, is the need for trust. Great teams thrive on trust ( click to tweet ).

Team 127

Team Strategy Sports Banking 127

Joseph Lalonde

MAY 14, 2014

The rest of your team is oblivious to these happenings. Unfortunately, when they’re happening in secret, your team doesn’t understand the reasons you’re making the choices you’re making. What you need to do is to help your team to understand what’s happening. Lines of credit have to be paid back.

Team 220

Team Incentives Banking Morale 220

CoachStation

AUGUST 25, 2022

Developing the skills to engage team members is important. The Reserve Bank of Australia believes that the unemployment rate is heading to 3.25% by the end of this year. It won’t always be like this, however. Maybe, no more so than right now.

Motivation 237

Motivation Banking Influence Skills 237

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The importance of maintaining your values during a crisis is a key factor for taking your team on the difficult journey with you. For teams to be resilient, they have to feel it is worthwhile to make the effort to be so. Talk with debtors, creditors, suppliers, and the bank. In crises, winning organizations act like start-ups.

Crisis 270

Crisis How To Health Care Follow-up 270

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Not only can lawyers become an effective team and group leaders in their law firms, but they can also become successful CEOs in any industry. To focus on one industry, during its demise in the 2010’s Wells Fargo was run by MBAs, whereas Bank of America was run by a lawyer named Brian Moynihan, who graduated from Notre Dame law school.

Banking 392

Banking CEO Self-aware Advice 392

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 24, 2023

The Power of Workplace Culture in an AI Universe: A virtual conversation about Empathy and Innovation Note: This article on Workplace Culture is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of our book, Courageous Culture: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. What’s annoying your team?

Innovation 402

Innovation How To Emotional Intelligence Quality 402

Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

The second week on campus, teams of first year MBA students would have 48 hours to research and make recommendations on a real business challenge for a large, high-profile company and package and communicate their recommendation to a high-profile audience. Every team was given the same challenge, information and resources.

Team 180

Team How To Committee Short-term 180

Jason Womack

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

That's right, I found out how to be my own bank! Thanks to all the lenders, borrowers, partners, and team members who brightened this map - and helped to change lives in the process. If you'd like to recommend someone I loan to, simply @ me over at Twitter: @ JasonWomack. I loan money, I get repaid, and I do it again. Will you join?

Banking 124

Banking Microfinance Entrepreneur Process 124

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 3, 2021

According to a World Bank analysis, innovation is on the decline. Read the full article and consider how connection can help your team to become more innovative. Given innovation’s role in moving organizations and society forward, what can we do to encourage it? Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash.

Magazine 195

Magazine Article Innovation Banking 195

QAspire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A bank executive once insisted that I do him a favor by getting a free credit card (even when I did not require it). Reframe metrics as a tool to learn and adapt: Build team rituals to have a dialogue on leading indicators to learn, adapt and course correct. If you don’t frame your metrics right, they can distort behaviors.

Metrics 122

Metrics Banking Learning-by-Doing Tools 122

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Every organization has unique dynamics and strategic goals, from investment banks to hedge funds and private equity firms. Top Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) possess the ability to convey complex financial concepts in a clear and concise manner to both their team members and key stakeholders.

Finance 411

Finance Execution Leadership Long-term 411

Lead Change Blog

JULY 15, 2014

is the retired chairman and CEO of Bank of America. Wall Street analysts characterized him as a no-holds barred tactical genius that lead the bank as its thirty-nine year old president with [.] Leadership Coaching Team Dynamics influence Military Leadership Rules of Combat' McColl, Jr. Author information Chip Bell Chip R.

Banking 320

Banking Leadership Styles Tactics Influence 320

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

If you manage a small business or a department within a large organization, a great way to improve the cohesiveness of your employee team is to engage them in an activity away from the workplace. Your team can work at a food bank. Shoot for having your team do one activity per month. Discussions open up.

Team Building 50

Team Building Team Bond Banking 50

General Leadership

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Money in a bank is a resource. Guest Posts Communication Leadership levy partnership sharing Team' I used a common leadership slogan earlier in my writing, “Your people are your best resource”. I find now as I reflect on those words I have come to disagree with that statement and must advise against its use. … Read the rest.

Banking 413

Banking Resources Team Leadership 413

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It has recently proved false to believe that saving money in the bank is the only way of achieving financial independence. Banks pay low-interest rates that mostly depreciate money saved in the bank over time. CLEVER runs a zero supply scheme in which the CLEVER Team does not have tokens pre-mined or pre-owned.

Decentralization 182

Decentralization Banking Depreciation Long-term 182

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If you manage a small business or a department within a large organization, a great way to improve the cohesiveness of your employee team is to engage them in an activity away from the workplace. Your team can work at a food bank. Shoot for having your team do one activity per month. Discussions open up.

Team 50

Team Bond Team Building Banking 50

Lead by Adventure

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Here are ten ways to help re-direct your team (and even yourself) to think about others during the holidays and get the focus off of everything you have to do. These activities will not only help your team to grow closer, but also steer the focus to others. As a team, decide on a non-profit you would like to go help.

Team 100

Team Workshop Banking Brainstorming 100

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. He is the total package – a team player people love to work with and for.

Human Resources 469

Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Lead by Adventure

JULY 10, 2014

Here are the team building lessons I learned from our experience. We must pay attention to not only what we are working on, but also notice others and how we can help them , how we can build relationships, how we can be a more effective team. As a team, you work hard, and you have goals that you are going after.

Team Building 184

Team Building Team Bond Learning-by-Doing 184

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 20, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Imagezoo/Getty Images Jimmy Black Kendall Marshall Global Wealth & Investment Management for Bank of America LinkedIn Phil Ford Raymond Felton Sallie Krawcheck the best performing teams are diverse teams The Secret to Putting Together an Insanely Successful Team Ty Lawson'

Team 89

Team Succession Banking Diversity 89

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2021

When a business is purchased by the management team within the company by borrowing funds, this is referred to as a Management-Buy-out (MBO). Most of the money used to buy out the current owners is provided by banks and financial investors. What is an MBO and why might a business go for a MBO. How is an MBO funded?

MBO 132

MBO Planning Mezzanine Succession 132

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The financing team at your local dealership will run your credit score to build a loan that fits your budget and needs. Get a Personal Loan Consumers who don’t want to deal with automotive financing can ask for a personal loan from their local bank or another lender.

Finance 98

Finance Credit Scoring Short-term Long-term 98

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 22, 2021

And, when this method is part of how your company or team works – it gets used often and becomes part of your in-group work. Working with a team deep into the root cause must be found to make progress philosophy, we suddenly created this root-cause to solution-cause process. Most problem-solving methods work well for most things.

Construction 174

Construction Banking Goal Creativity 174

Lead Change Blog

JULY 21, 2015

Stephen Covey, in his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , introduced the concept of the emotional bank account. He said positive things feed our emotional bank account while negative things make withdrawals. Some team members have genuine fear of multiple solutions or are passionate about leaving things as they are.

Banking 150

Banking Project Covey Objective 150

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 16, 2012

We all have problems , every team has problems, every organization has problems I have yet to meet a manager yet who doesn’t have problems…. The two teams met and both shared results. One team by just googling found a town that had a similar problem, and they contacted the towns public works department. What do you think?

Team 128

Team Workshop Innovation Learning-by-Doing 128

Next Level Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

My first job out of graduate school was as a first year associate in a Wall Street investment bank whose last of the 10 corporate values they printed in their annual report was, “Have fun!” After sitting there for a few moments I think I said something like, “Whatever they did at the investment bank, I’m going to do the opposite.”

Micromanagement 196

Micromanagement Banking Leadership Styles Uncertainty 196

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 8, 2014

A river without banks drifts calmly into oblivion. Tell teams what they can’t do and where they can’t go and they’ll get further, faster. This applies to… Continue reading → Courage Innovation Taking others higher Teams Communication courageous leaders Leadership' Constraint makes the river powerful.

Constraint 207

Constraint Banking How To Innovation 207

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

A recent conversation with a community bank CEO focused on his vision for the company. With depth of affirmation around cause preceding effect, why do business leaders focus so heavily on analyzing their numbers, or, focus on the effect instead of the cause?

P&L 220

P&L ROE Metrics CFO 220

Mike Cardus

APRIL 20, 2011

Below is a series of Team Building & Leadership Programs facilitated to over 20 project teams within a large bank. Each can be customized and adjusted for your culture, team and organization. If you are interested contact us and start making your team better! Effective behaviors of team membership 2.

Workshop 121

Workshop Team Building Team Development 121

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

“Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, you—and what makes your team and organization unique,” says Soren Kaplan , author of the book, Experiential Intelligence. Many organizations haven’t fully tapped into the mindsets, abilities, and know-how that inherently exists across their people and teams.

Kaplan 105

Kaplan How To Self-aware Emotional Intelligence 105