CUInsight Minute with Lauren Culp – February 4, 2022
Our favorites from the week in sixty seconds.
Welcome to the CUInsight Minute, sixty seconds from our Publisher & CEO Lauren Culp with our favorite reads from the week.
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It’s time to take a two-pronged approach to payments growth
by CO-OP FINANCIAL SERVICES
Despite COVID’s continued, stubborn grip on the economy, banks are pursuing and capturing new credit cardholders with aggressive marketing strategies, more lenient underwriting criteria and rich rewards, while credit unions have largely remained on the sidelines. And credit union members are noticing. (read more)
Financial well-being for all is people helping people
by GIGI HYLAND, NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION (THE FOUNDATION)
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Those words from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — as so many of us prepare to attend CUNA’s Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC) in our nation’s capital – feel especially apt. (read more)
4 ways to be a better manager in 2022
by HAMZA KHAN
The short answer to the question of “how can I become a better manager” is to stop managing altogether and to start leading instead. For in the wise words of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, “you manage things; you lead people.” Leading in 2022 (and beyond) requires operationalizing and maximizing four distinctly “human” values: servitude, innovation, diversity, and empathy. To create value-driven, change-friendly, self-disrupting, and future-proof organizations, modern leaders should consider implementing the following four tried-and-tested strategies. (read more)
