Coaching and Consulting for Growing Credit Unions
Strategic Planning, Leadership Training, and Culture Building
We’ve all heard about the power of teaching people to fish instead of giving them the fish… in one case they learn how to do something, in the other they become dependent upon someone else to do it for them.
When it comes to creating change in organizations, you face a similar choice. You can bring in an expert presenter who delivers information to your team, shows them how they can improve, provides them with a set of tools, and sends them back to their respective jobs to put their new knowledge to work.
But there are problems with this approach.
It assumes that the presenter’s solutions fit your specific problems. It trusts the people who sat in the audience grasped the information and figured out how to act upon it. And it gives your team the same solution that has been given to everyone other team with whom the presenter has worked.
The alternative approach is to bring in a skilled, knowledgeable, and experienced facilitator… someone with a broad range of expertise who can work with your team and help them to discover the knowledge, skills, and abilities that lie within, and guide them through the implementation process to create real lasting change.
If you choose this facilitative approach, you engage the people who are actually experiencing the problems in defining solutions that will work, you allow them to actively participate in creating their own action plans to bring about lasting change, and you come up with a set of solutions that fit your problems instead of the general problems that everyone else is facing.
That’s why Dr. Hudson uses a facilitative approach in working with his credit union clients.
Whether facilitating a strategic planning session, creating a leadership development program, or implementing a culture building process, his approach focuses on engaging the entire team in the effort. He knows when to push hard to focus the group on the real issues, and when to pull back and let the conversation take its necessary course. He finds ways to get even the most reserved participants to share their ideas and insights, and manages the interactions so that no one person dominates and exerts too much control.
In the end, your team owns the plan because they created it around their abilities and in a context that will work within your credit union. It’s your plan, your approach, and your pathway to results!
Strategic Planning
Dr. Michael Hudson provides a comprehensive range of strategic planning services for credit unions, including facilitation of planning sessions, definition of action plans, and support for the implementation of action plans to achieve the goals of the credit union. Learn more about our Strategic Planning Coaching.
Leadership Development
Few things are more important to the success of your credit union than the effectiveness of your leadership team. Dr. Hudson designs, develops and delivers customized programs to help all the members of your team lead to the best of their ability every day. Learn more about our Leadership Development coaching.
Culture Building
Business Culture is the key to success. Dr. Hudson will help you build a stronger organization where everyone is on the same page, where teamwork actually works, and where the culture becomes so powerful that it ensures your long term success. Learn more about our Culture Building coaching.
Dover Federal Credit Union has worked with Dr. Michael Hudson in a number of different capacities for approximately ten years. Dr. Hudson has provided key counsel on such topics as governance, member service, leadership and communication. In addition, he has facilitated the annual planning retreat since 2003. Dover Federal has experienced many successes during this period as a result of the collaboration with Dr. Hudson.
— David Clendaniel, CEO,
Dover Federal Credit Union
