| inform. educate. connect. | Issue #7 - February 2010 |
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In
a time when employment law revisions and regulations are
aplenty, how will you know the best way to manage the job you
have to do in your community bank? We
are all challenged with knowing how to do our job while
keeping up with any new issues of concern. The learning curve
can be quick and steep! Whether it’s the design of
compensation plans or meeting the needs of the employee while
balancing the bank’s goals and objectives, WIB can assist
and the bank’s staff. We have taken our popular HR &
Training Forum; CFO, Investments & Ops Risk Conference;
and our Technology & Security Summit and rolled them up
into one comprehensive conference this November in Las Vegas.
The Education
Summit & Expo is a
5-day Conference featuring tracks for CFOs, Investments, Risk,
Tech, Security, Operations, Compliance and HR & Training.
Tracks are 2-3 days. Attendees can register for just one or
several days. We will have a 1˝ day Track devoted to the HR and Training function
in a community bank with such sessions as “How to Step
Clearly Through the Field of New Compliance Regulations.”
Plan now to join us at what is sure to be a nonstop learning
experience! Training
& Marketing – A Winning Partnership Marketing and sales are common partners, but many banks overlook the critical marriage between marketing and training. One is an expert on your customer base, and the other manages the most direct channel to your clients. It’s only natural these two departments work together. <read more> Two
Down, Ten to Go! How is Your Training Strategy Working? February 2010 is just about over, giving us just 10 more months to accomplish the items on the strategic training plan we wrote last year! What? You never wrote a training plan? How is that working for you so far? <read more> Compensation
Benchmarking in a Down Economy The prolonged market downturn has had a significant impact on salary increases and especially on the size and prevalence of performance-based payouts in the banking industry as a whole. As a result, it can be difficult to establish baseline market compensation levels in years when performance-based payouts (e.g., bonus and equity awards) in the market are non-existent or substantially lower than in more “normal” years. <read more> Healthy
Relationships As the concept of recovery seems more and more likely, banks are responding with an eagerness to increase their market share, sell more products and services, and reach out to new audiences. This eagerness is offset, however, by the reality that things have changed. Consumers feel different about their banks than they used to, their needs have changed, and their buying processes modified. <read more> Peer
Spotlight At Mechanics Bank, we have a special training program that has evolved over the years to serve our organization in a number of different ways. We call our program “Managing in the Real World”. <read more> |
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