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GSB – Stabilize Core Earnings By Reinforcing Existing Relationships

Economic uncertainty combined with slow economic recovery are likely to impact revenue performance. What are the anchors that banking leaders should be managing to minimize the effects of today’s challenges through 2023? The foundational answer is already at the bank… current customers and core earnings. Today is always a good time to develop your customer relationship retention and growth strategies. As you integrate development initiatives into your business planning, remember a few basic principles for relationship growth and success:

  • Don’t wait for problems to surface.
  • Reconnect with tenured customers that provide funding and quality borrowers.
  • Proactively offer assistance, frequently.
  • Proactively offer personalized, custom solutions.
  • Enhance value through service and expertise.
  • Identify your ‘at risk’ relationships.
  • Get back to business development.

Target Audience: Emerging leaders, mid to upper level managers, Senior managers and leaders

Presenter: Kyle Hershberger and Tom Hershberger — Cross Financial

Registration Option: Live presentation $330

  • Recording available through February 10, 2023
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Supervisor Boot Camp

The WBA Supervisor Boot Camp will start on Monday, October 16, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. and adjourn on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 by 4:00 p.m. 

An Intense Focus on Succeeding at Managing Others

You don’t master the art of supervision through luck, you master it with training, experience, self-learning, and staying on top of best practices. As a supervisor, you must have the attitude, aptitude, skill set, confidence, persistence, and commitment to excel in this multi-tasking, challenging role. Supervisor Boot Camp will help you build essential traits such as leadership, professional maturity, and emotional IQ.

With this in mind, InterAction Training has designed a compelling, two-day dynamic, interactive workshop just for you! The program includes exploring the coaching and leadership skills that lay out a plan for your success as a highly effective supervisor. You will find this experiential training opportunity invigorating, motivating and applicable to managing and supervising others.

Fast-Paced * Information Packed * Results Oriented * Dynamic * Interactive * Engaging

This two-day program is exactly what you are looking for if your bank strives to keep supervisors on the competitive edge! You will work and learn, share and listen, and go back eager to implement and make a difference.

Speaker: Vicki Kraai, CEO, InterAction Training

Monday Agenda, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Assessing Your Supervisor Effectiveness

  • Practice self-evaluation on 12 critical supervisory disciplines
  • Learn how to capitalize on the strengths and overcome the trouble spots of your styles
  • Learn how to interact effectively with other styles
  • Make effective choices to be successful and effective in any situation

Motivating Yourself and Others

  • Why do we do what we do, how to gain buy-in from your team
  • Understand yourself and others
  • Understand motivation
  • Describe what constitutes quality work
  • Explain Choice Theory
  • Illustrate coaching techniques
  • Express good questions using the WDEP system
  • Discover the value of an Action Plan

Tuesday Agenda, 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Excelling at Leading, Supervising & Coaching

  • Help others achieve
  • Address difficult or uninspired team members
  • Manage resistance
  • Coach with positive confrontation
  • Solutions and creative alternatives to challenges you face
  • Manage your job: prioritizing, setting goals, establishing standards, planning
  • Relate to others: listening, organizing, communicating, giving and receiving feedback
  • Develop your team: training, coaching, delegating, appraising, counseling and disciplining
  • Think clearly: analytical thinking, problem solving, decision making and risk assessment
  • Your Action Plan: Identify what needs to improve and building your improvement plan

Building Performance Plans

  • Build collaborative performance plans with employees
  • Consider the causes of employee performance or behavioral issues
  • Understand the performance improvement plan process
  • Identify the leader’s role during performance plan execution

Registration Information: The registration fee of $535/attendee includes program registration, instruction and materials, online DiSC assessment test, and daily lunch and refreshment breaks.

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BOLT Summer Leadership Summit

Join WBA and your fellow emerging leader banker peers from across Wisconsin for our annual BOLT Summer Leadership Summit! The summit will kickoff on Thursday, June 15 at 9:30 a.m. and adjourn at Noon on Friday, June 16. Visit the Agenda page for a look at the full summit schedule!

Interested in developing your leadership skills? Looking to build and grow in your career in banking? Then BOLT is for you!

BOLT stands for Building Our Leaders of Tomorrow and represents the emerging leaders section of membership within WBA. Membership in the BOLT Section is complimentary for all WBA members. Each member bank is encouraged to identify their emerging leaders and have them participate in BOLT as a part of their career development within the bank.

Who typically attends a BOLT Summit?

The BOLT Summits bring together a wide variety of bankers in various roles and experience levels from all across Wisconsin. From entry-level roles to c-level staff, BOLT brings together bankers in an energized environment focused on educating our current and future bank leaders, building networks and lifelong connections, and advocating for community banking.

Registration Information

Bank Member Registration: The registration fee of $250/attendee includes networking meals and breaks, general sessions, breakout sessions, peer group discussions, and access to the summit mobile app.

Associate Member Registration: Associate Members are encouraged to send their emerging leaders as well! The same registration fee is available to WBA Associate Members. Interested in upgrading your presence? Register to be a summit sponsor to receive additional benefits and summit recognition!

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Women in Banking Conference

The 17th Annual WBA Women in Banking Conference will be held on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at the Glacier Canyon Conference Center in Wisconsin Dells. The conference will kick off at 9:00 a.m. and adjourn at 3:30 p.m.

To make this conference accessible to those working from other states and/or unable to travel for a day — the conference will be hybrid! While the best networking experience will take place in person, if you prefer to attend from the comfort of your home or office, you can now join the conference virtually and tune in to see our live keynote speakers!

Who Should Attend?

WBA encourages bank management to consider sending their top performing women to the WBA Women in Banking Conference as an investment in their futures with your bank. Attendees will benefit from over 4 hours of presentations; network with more than 200 women banker peers; and participate in tabletop peer networking to share ideas. You won’t want to miss this great event!

To assist your bank with recognizing your women leaders, WBA is offering team pricing for this event. Register your team at the same time to receive the team pricing. Planning to send more than 10 attendees? Contact WBA’s Lori Kalscheuer for further discounts!

Conference Sessions Include:

  • Refresh, Recharge, Refuel: Dr. Melissa Furman, MS, DBA
  • Women in Leadership: How to Inspire, Empower, and Get Things Done!: Amber Farley
  • Communicating with Power and Influence: Dr. Melissa Furman, MS, DBA
  • and more!

Registration Information

Banker Registration: Take advantage of team pricing — your bank’s first two attendees are $245/attendee. Additional attendees can register for $200/attendee, when registering at the same time. The in-person registration fee includes all conference materials, lunch, refreshment breaks, and access to the optional pre-conference networking events!

The virtual registration fee of $150/connection includes access to a livestream of each keynote presentation. The recordings of the sessions will be available to access for 30 days following the conference.

Interested in sending 10 or more attendees? Contact WBA’s Lori Kalscheuer for further discounting options.

Associate Member Registration: WBA Associate Members are encouraged to invest in their women leaders as well! Interested in enhancing your conference visibility and recognition at the event? Register to be a conference sponsor to receive additional benefits and recognition!

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Bank Executives Conference

The 2023 WBA Bank Executives Conference will be held Wednesday, February 8 through Friday, February 10 at the Kalahari Convention Center in Wisconsin Dells. The conference will kick off with a networking reception on Wednesday evening, but bankers are invited and encouraged to arrive earlier for optional afternoon “banker only” peer group discussions starting at 2:30 p.m. The conference will adjourn at Noon on Friday.

This conference is ideal for community banking executives to come together for networking and education. Attendees will enjoy two days of networking, several national keynote speakers, and a total of 8 breakout sessions to choose from. Members of your bank’s executive team can each customize their agendas by attending and learning from different breakout sessions.

View the Speakers and Agenda pages on the conference registration website for more details!

Bank Member Registration Information

EARLY BIRD PRICING! Register your team by January 9, 2023 to receive the registration fee of $475/attendee, including all meals and conference sessions. After January 9, the registration fee will increase to $525/attendee.

Spouses/guests (non-bankers) can be registered to join for all meals at the rate of $275/guest. This includes Wednesday reception; Thursday breakfast, lunch, reception, dinner and dessert reception; and Friday breakfast. Spouses/guests (non-bankers) can also register to only attend the Thursday evening receptions and dinner at the rate of $125/guest.

Associate Member & Exhibitor Registration Information

WBA Associate Members can register to attend, exhibit, and/or sponsor at the conference.

Associate Member individual conference registration is $695/attendee, including all meals and conference sessions. Visit the Information for Exhibitors/Sponsors page for more details on exhibit and sponsor opportunities! Please contact WBA’s Nick Loppnow for more information on exhibiting. Interested in upgrading your presence? Register to be a conference sponsor to receive additional benefits and conference recognition! Please contact WBA’s Nick Loppnow for more details on available sponsorships.

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GSB – Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Recent studies have shown emotional intelligence to be a key factor in leadership effectiveness. Emotionally intelligent leaders of teams create psychologically safe workplaces that lead to improved employee job satisfaction, retention, creativity, performance and well being.

Session Highlights

  • Explain what emotional intelligence is and the difference between IQ and EQ
  • Review the 5 key components of emotional intelligence
  • Understand why emotionally intelligent leaders are more effective
  • Explain the role of emotional intelligence in building high-trust relationships
  • Review strategies to motivate and response to the needs of your teams
  • Use emotional intelligence to become a more effective leader
  • Leave you with some everyday tools to use in your leadership journey

Target Audience: Anyone who is in a leadership position

Presenter: Vicki Kraai, InterAction Training

Registration Option: Live presentation $330

Recording available through March 1, 2024

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