Making More Money with Your Money Please welcome Al Riddick, the President of Game Time Budgeting, an award-winning, Cincinnati-based, financial wellness firm that helps people learn to make their money behave.   Questions What does budgeting mean to you? What questions should people be asking themselves which might make them feel better about the process of budgeting? Why is budgeting in January so important? Financial New Year’s resolutions are very popular right now, but I understand you have a new way of looking at them. Can you tell me more? How can 2022 help us create better financ ..read more

Credit unions typically provide about two weeks of training to a new teller. But how much training is provided to a new manager?   ServiStar’s Emerging Leaders program takes new and emerging managers and turns them into confident, competent, high-performance leaders who will be able to develop their own personal leadership style, deploy core coaching skills and maximize employee engagement and performance.   Sessions covering topics such as: How to Manage Former Peers Building Trust & Influence Change Management Emotional Intelligence What's included: Leadership assessment One ..read more

Listen in to hear who CRASHs the podcast to open season 5 in our 25th year of helping credit union clients.    Also, Taylor Murray, CEO, and President of the podcast discusses tweaks we made to give you more access to our training at less cost!!     ..read more

Peter J. Benjamin joins us today on the Credit Union Leadership podcast to discuss leadership in mortgages today and in the future and what ServiStar and ACUMA are doing to help.  Peter J. Benjamin, CMB Peter J. Benjamin, CMB is the President of the American Credit Union Mortgage Association (ACUMA). A mortgage professional with 20 years of experience, Benjamin has held various positions throughout the mortgage industry including Senior Vice President of Mortgage Lending for Lafayette Federal Credit Union in Rockville, MD. During his time at Lafayette Federal, Benjamin led a high-performi ..read more

Taylor Murray recently interviewed CU Broadcast- this is the B Roll that didn't make it on the first podcast, enjoy Mike Larson- the rest of the story. About NBC TODAY Show's Jean Chatzky Interviews CUbroadcast is a credit union talkshow. It is a collection of informative, online video interviews discussing today’s credit union issues and trends with some of the industry’s finest innovators, ambassadors, and game changers. We interview industry leaders and experts nationwide from credit unions, CUSOs, vendors, regulators, league officials, media, and more. We get their take on the latest indus ..read more

Meet Megan James  Megan James Megan is the Manager of Learning and Development here at ServiStar Consulting.  Megan began her career in Education and prior to her time here was the Group Leader of Compliance Training for a Pharmaceutical Solutions Company.  Megan brings a lot of learning and development knowledge to our team and we are excited to take our existing programs to the next level with her guidance and expertise.  Megan resides in Clearwater, Florida with her two Goldendoodles.  In her free time she likes to go to the beach, try new restaurants and spend time ..read more

Community Choice Credit Union is a 1.68 Billion dollar community influencer in Michigan. Their partnership with the University of Maryland, Filene, and ServiStar has allowed them to come to the market with a complete program to educate it's employees using CUNA's FICEP training and teach them the soft skills needed to take that training and implement it with every member, every time, where they are at.    Simply said, Choice Map helps members achieve the life they desire.    Stacey Ferris, is the training manager over the program and is willing to help your credit union out ..read more

It's our podcast founder and ServiStar Cheif Learning Officer's birthday and as a gift to the listener, we give you a behind-the-curtains look into what goes on at Vertex Live Nationwide. In this part one of two podcasts, we listen to the 2021 version of Mike Neill on his birthday leading our first-ever Fall Vertex Live Nationwide course through the topic of Coaching for Performance. We spend a lot of time in Vertex covering the topic of coaching, so this podcast is meant to be more of a taste of the content. Enjoy.    If you are more of a full plate learner- sign up for an upcoming ..read more

Chase Larson is a friend of the podcast and is the Chief Lending Officer at St. Cloud Financial Credit Union in Minnesota.  In today's episode, Chase shares his expertise in crypto, how he is looking to use it at his credit union, how others have utilized it at their credit unions/banks, and what the future holds for this technology in your credit union's future.  To connect with Chase to find out more, email him at: chasel@scfcu.org   Chase Larson has almost 15 years of banking and finance experience. He has expertise in mortgage lending, business banking and SBA lending, and c ..read more

Vertex Live Nationwide UPDATE   We previously recorded these countdown episodes before the last class graduated. That class suggested we do more classes with less of a time commitment. As a result, our VLN Fall 2022 session is 10 sessions 2 hours each vs 8 sessions 3 hours each. This pushes the start date to August 2 Registration August 2–December 6   Sessions are Tuesday’s from 2 – 4 PM ET August 2, 16, 30 September 13, 27 October 11, 25 November 8, 29 December 6   Register Here_ https://events.servistarconsulting.com/event/vertex-live-nationwide/  ..read more