What a week; And your Weekend Reading PIle
Written by Anthony Demangone, Powered by NAFCU
What a great week in Nashville. NAFCU’s Strategic Growth Conference was our largest ever. Some basic takeaways…
- Everyone is working on the digital experience.
- Retail deliver is complicated. While pushing the limits on digital, at least one third of the room will be adding branches this year.
- Make the member experience awesome, easy, customized, and personalized.
- Ignore culture at your own risk. One CU has 26 key attributes they tie to success. Everyone goes over one every two weeks. In two years, employees have cycled through them all. And then they begin again. Another credit union makes employees sit through a culture day before they get access to emails, systems, etc.
- Everyone single employee is the entire credit union when talking to a member. Bad and good interactions are implied to the entire organization.
I hope to see you all next year! Now, on to the reading pile!
- Traders Joes is smaller. Has fewer options. Has no online sales. No loyalty programs. No deli counter…and is ranked #1 in customer satisfaction. (WSJ)
- Caring at scale. (Godin)
- Larry Fink’s Annual Chairman’s Letter to Investors. (BlackRock)
- Bank failure assets since 2001. (Ritholtz)
- Ghost job listings. (WSJ)
- Five ways to execute a 5-star customer experience. (Shep Hyken)
- The happiness paradox. (AWOCS)
- The A to Z of economics. This is great! (The Economist)
About the Author
Anthony Demangone, Executive Vice President and COO, NAFCU
Anthony Demangone, NCCO is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at NAFCU, where he oversees day-to-day operations and manages the association's education, marketing, membership, human resources, building facilities, finance and information technology functions. He also authors NAFCU's executive blog, Musings from the CU Suite and co-authored "Managing and Leading Well," a book for credit union leaders, with NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger.