9 Aggravating Approaches to Workplace Arguments
by. Matt Monge Conflict around ideas is a normal, healthy, and necessary part of organizational life. As I’ve said before, if your team isn’t arguing, something’s wrong. At the same time, we [...]
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Evolution to Revolution: Real-Time Payments Initiatives Unfold
by: Beth Robertson The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) was the latest multi-stakeholder group to approve a real-time payments initiative in support of evolving consumer and business needs for accelerated transacting. As noted in Javelin’[...]
Findings fom Telesis Community’s Material Loss Review
By. Keith Leggett NCUA's Office of the Inspector General (IG) released the Material Loss Review (MLR) on the failure of Telesis Community Credit Union with an estimated loss to the National Credit Union Share Insurance [...]
What Can A Channel Do For You?
By Lisa Hochgraf At the end of the day, what can a particular delivery channel do for your credit union? Terence Roche offered this list to attendees of CUES Symposium: A CEO/Chairman Exchange in [...]
NCUA’s “Tough Love” – The Final Nail in Many Credit Unions’ Coffins?
By Dennis Child, Marketing Director, Thompson Consulting and Training Struggling credit union CEOs express concern and frustration with their regulators who are insisting their institutions implement significantly less risk in their operations. After comprehensive study [...]
Do You Know Why You Do What You Do?
By. Tom Glatt, Glatt Consulting I recently watched a program on former USC and Oakland Raider quarterback Todd Marinovich. His is what you would call a sad tale, where drugs took an incredible toll on [...]
We Are William Wallace
By. Nate Muniz, PSECU It’s no secret to anyone who knows me or my work that I love the CUNA GAC. Getting back to DC is always a treat (mostly because I don’t [...]
How Effective is Hosted Exchange Spam Filtering?
By Kirk Drake Hosted Exchange Spam Filtering If you are looking at upgrading your Microsoft Exchange 2007 or 2003 server you may also be considering looking at Hosted Exchange. There are many people who simply [...]
Disrupt Business As Usual
“Come gather ‘round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth [...]
eManners: What Does “Polite” Look Like Nowadays?
By. Ron Daly It's always interesting to read an article that challenges convention, then see the blow-back from that article, then see the author's response to the blow-back. With so much media to manage these [...]
On CAMEL Ratings and ATM Lawsuits
By. Henry Meier I hate to kick a dead horse (actually my wife says I love kicking dead horses), but in today’s paper is an article that last January the O.C.C. downgraded [...]
3 Reasons Why Performance Ratings Don’t Work
By Andy Porter One of the things we’re known for doing here at Fistful of Talent is shooting straight with our readers and telling you how things really work in HR. If you’re [...]
9 Leadership Mistakes That Kill Your Team
By Matt Monge Humans are imperfect, yes? So it stands to reason that leaders, unless of course they’re not human, are also imperfect. We’ve all got our own version of imperfect too, don’[...]
Today’s Reports are Tomorrow’s Regulations
by PJ Hoffman, Regulatory Affairs Counsel In case you haven’t noticed, it seems that everyone has an opinion about private student lending. In just the past few months we have seen regulators, legislators, and [...]
Troubled Debt Restructuring
By Keith Leggett Credit unions started reporting information on Troubled Debt Restructurings (TDR) at the end of 2012. The 5300 Call Report states that a TDR "means a restructuring in which a credit union, for [...]