Leadership Classes

Drama Free Leadership
Presented by Dennis McIntee
Monday & Tuesday
Leading a high-trust, high-performance team that gets results is possible. It’s also possible to do it without putting in more hours and working harder. Creating an ownership culture free of drama, victim mentalities, and blame assigning helps leaders leverage their most valuable asset- -their team members. This interactive workshop will give you the practical skills you need to eliminate all the excuses not only from your team, but every relationship today.
Learning Objectives:
- Discover the two trust-building skills necessary to create buy-in with your team
- Understand how to remove emotion from situations to facilitate change
- Develop the two skills for giving effective feedback that won’t leave your employees feeling defensive
- Learn the coaching questions that are guaranteed to create ownership within your team
- Increase your ability to discern motives so you can skip the drama and get to the heart of issues faster.

Executive Roundtable
Presented by Celeste Cook, founder and President/CEO of cuStrategies LLC
Monday
Credit unions across the nation must find ways to become more innovative and relevant for growth, responsive to the needs of their members, and develop a strategic plan focused on growth, profitability, and member retention.
- Explore a holistic leadership perspective to create a culture for long-term loan growth and profitability
- Understand current economic trends and how they will impact your credit union
- Identify the Seven P’s that impact growth, profitability, and member retention
- Explore what you can do to become more strategic about lending
- Discover ways to create win/win solutions to help grow your credit union
- Determine the best approach to motivate and engage employees
- Determine the best approach to become more relevant to retain existing members and attract new ones.

Leading Change for Growth
Presented by Celeste Cook, founder and President/CEO of cuStrategies LLC
Wednesday & Thursday
Organizational change is one of today’s most difficult leadership challenges. Credit unions across the nation must find ways to lead and manage change as well as continual disruptions more efficiently and effectively. Successful credit unions must be quick and nimble in their efforts to be responsive to the ever-changing environment internally and externally.
- Explore a holistic approach to leading and managing change
- Identify obstacles that can impede the Change Process
- Discover ways to overcome barriers and bottlenecks to better effectuate change
- Explore key strategies to lead change effectively
- Determine the best approach to get buy-in in the Organizational Change process