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From our latest impacts and financial tips to what it means to Belong, see how we’re making Impossible Dreams come true in the Michigan communities we serve.
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Talent Finds the Smoothest Water When We Support Shifting Career Seasons
As life and career transitions challenge us to let go of old roles and embrace new ones, the journey from water skier to cheerleader mirrors the growth we experience in both personal passions and professional leadership.
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Allow Failure to Ignite Success
Reflecting on the lessons learned through both personal and family experiences with failure, emphasizing how embracing setbacks, seeking support, and continuous growth can transform failure into a powerful driver of success.
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Succession Planning & Building a Sustaining Legacy
Emphasizing the importance of thoughtful succession and transition planning in leadership, urging organizations to honor departures, build alumni networks, and foster cultures that celebrate change while ensuring smooth leadership transitions.
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Choose The Bear
A personal story, the "Choose the Bear" movement, and highlighting our efforts to help women facing violence and economic abuse through financial tools and support for safer futures.
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Community Amplified: Your Credit Union as a Jam Band
Community is at the heart of credit unions, and by drawing inspiration from groups like jam bands, we can amplify our role as community leaders, creating deeper connections and positive, lasting impacts on the people we serve.
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You Can Come Home Again: Pure Michigan
After years of moving across the country to pursue her career dreams, we reflects on returning to Michigan, finding both personal and professional fulfillment, and witnessing a growing sense of hope and collaboration in the state's efforts to address challenges and build a brighter future.
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Our Many Hats: As Complex as Our Impossible Dreams Coming to Life
Consider how the simple beauty of any individual unfolds through their complexity and depth. Valuing one element of an individual’s identity narrowly and weighing any portion of a human being’s passions more heavily limits us and, more importantly, them. We can do better.
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Execution: Unfolding our Strategic Napkin
Exploring the importance of crafting a simple, engaging strategy and emphasizes how execution, communication, and avoiding distractions are key to turning strategic vision into successful outcomes.
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Smashing our Piggy Banks: The Future of Payments
Exploring the evolution of payments, highlighting the need for credit unions to innovate and embrace emerging trends like digital wallets, embedded banking, and AI to stay relevant in a rapidly changing landscape.
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Gratitude and Courage: Foundations of Leadership for Today
Leadership, grounded in gratitude and courage, involves being vulnerable, offering support, believing in others when they don’t, and growing future leaders by helping them realize their full potential.
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We Can Do Better. It’s time for 50/50.
Closing the equity gap for women, highlighting personal stories and barriers to leadership, and the urgent need for action to achieve true gender parity in executive roles and boardrooms.
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Credit Unions' Next Inspiration: Jam Bands
Drawing inspiration from jam bands to suggest that credit unions can enhance member experiences by embracing improvisation, spontaneity, and a communal, collaborative approach to foster loyalty and connection.