White Paper

Lending Leadership: Coaching Teams and Employees

By Beth Stetenfeld

posted 06.21.2017 (lending)

One of the most difficult responsibilities of being a leader is often leading a team. Navigating the often murky waters of team management can make it stressful and challenging to reach goals, maintain ownership, and meet other strategic obligations.

This white paper in the leadership series examines those challenges, and offers suggestions from credit union lending leaders on how to mitigate and deal with the stress, including:

• Determining if you have the “right” team in place
• Determining the ideal structure for your team
• Identifying, addressing, and avoiding silos
• Engaging in effective coaching
• Retaining talent
• Creating a balance between implementing strategic and tactical tasks/oversight with leading, coaching, and integrating