Change is everywhere—in our personal life, our professional life, everywhere you turn. Rather than reject change, shouldn’t we embrace it?
With that in mind, we’re pleased to announce Big Valley 2.0, to be held March 16 through 18 in Monterey, California. We’re calling it ‘2.0’ because it combines the best elements of previous Big Valley conferences with some new approaches to create an ‘upgraded’ conference experience for you.
Big Valley 2.0 will offer both a traditional conference track with speaker-led presentations, and a less-structured track for more interactive discussions. You’ll also experience the Welcome Reception and Exhibit Hall in an exciting new way (more on that in a future entry).
To encourage a better return on your attendance, all participants will be provided before the conference with tools to encourage a more meaningful conference experience before the conference. The final session of the conference will provide you with a plan to apply what you learned when you return to your credit union.
The goal is to provide an educational conference with more choices that better reflects the way we learn in today’s interactive culture. In that spirit, we encourage you to share your opinions about how the League can create an improved Big Valley conference that surpasses your past experiences.
Please tell us: what are your credit union’s biggest struggles right now, and what do you hope to learn at Big Valley to help you with them? Post your answers below by clicking on the "Comments" link, and keep visiting this blog to find out more about the exciting changes of Big Valley 2.0!
2 comments:
I'm not sure that credit unions are doing enough to pull non-credit union people into our movement. The recent financial and economic implosion has opened up a golden opportunity for credit unions to step up and advertise the fact that we are safe, stable, have excellent products and services, etc., and that we have not been seduced by the notion that we can provide bad products for financial gain. At the annual meeting, there were presentations about information that will be provided to the media, but I have not seen anything. In other words, if anything is being advertised, is it to a limited and fairly small population sector? Let's have a session wherein credit union folks can brainstorm ways in which we can proactively get the word out to non-CU people about how wonderful we are! To speak with one voice could be a very powerful way to show solidarity as an industry even though in many cases we do compete with one another. The idea here is to attract more people into our movement, and out of the banking industry.
1. Need ways to help make the CU more profitable, that is increase the ROA by increasing income and decreasing costs.
2. Need less expensive ways of finding new CEOs without using the expensive head hunter companies.
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