Our company recently had a one-day meeting where we brought almost everyone from our region into Nashville. It was inspiring!  We had our president, EVP, VP of products and a fellow top loan officer who spoke and offered compelling motivation and much needed perspective on what is going on in our…

In my previous job I was constantly in meetings.  As this was a salaried sales position we were in meeting after meeting after meeting.  We were constantly giving updates, talking about future products, solving customer problems, or rehashing these same topics over and over again. In my current role as…

We had a branch meeting last week.  We don’t have branch meetings too often (maybe once every 2 months) so I make it a point to try to at least attend via videoconference if at all possible.  In my previous job, we had meetings ALL the time. I mean, we…

I was in a lot of meetings last week. While this is often a normal part of my job, last week I had a few more meetings than usual. But the people in the meetings wanted to talk. And talk. And talk. And they didn’t want to listen. Or give…