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Wisconsin Community Banker
May/June 2014
Announcing New‘Leadership Development
for Community Bankers’ Program
CBW
is excited to announce our new
“Leadership Development for
Community Bankers” program. CBW launched
this eight-day course in partnership with the
UW-Madison Center for Professional and
Executive Development.
Retirements of community bank presidents,
chief financial officers, and other executives are
on the rise. CBW’s newest program is designed
to deepen the bench strength of community
bank leadership and retain talented managers.
Participants will learn to foster high performance
teams, respond to sweeping regulatory changes,
and lead community economic development
efforts.
Beginning in September, the program will
offer higher level business and industry training
to new and emerging community bank leaders.
The educational program will consist of four
two-day modules at The Fluno Center in Madi-
son. An initial cohort of 30 participants from
community banks across Wisconsin will com-
plete the four modules by next spring:
Sept. 12–13, 2014—Leadership Beyond Bank
Management
Nov. 7–8, 2014—Strategic Thinking and Per-
formance Management
Jan. 16–17, 2015—Executing Strategy and
Improvement
Mar. 20–21, 2015—Increase Influence and
Lead Change Effectively
Designed by the Center for Professional and
Executive Development at the Wisconsin School
of Business, the educational program ensures
real-world learning. Each participant will apply
their new knowledge in an individually selected
project within their bank and/or community.
This curriculum will bring actual ROI to the
bank and its customers.
Faculty include Steve King, center director;
Jim Johannes, Aschenbrener Professor of Bank-
ing and Director of the Puelicher Center for
Banking Education at the Wisconsin School of
Business, and other UW-Madison faculty. Susan
Finerty, consultant and author of
Master the Matrix: 7 Essentials
for Getting Things Done in Com-
plex Organizations, will also serve
as a faculty member.
CBW will receive no revenue
from the Wisconsin School of
Business partnership. In fact, your
association’s Board of Directors is committed
to this educational program and has authorized
$250,000 for scholarship reimbursement to par-
ticipants who successfully complete all mod-
ules. Each participant completing the program
will be eligible to receive $2,000 in scholarship
reimbursement.
If you or a colleague is considering this new
opportunity, I encourage you to register online
soon at: tinyurl.com/communitybankersofwis-
consin. Space is limited, especially this year,
when our industry has a large pool of potential
candidates who can benefit from it. And, I sus-
pect that demand for this program will grow next
year, as the members of our first cohort complete
the modules and do great things in their banks
and communities.
Reach Daryll J. Lund at
Serving You
Daryll J. Lund, CAE, CBW President and CEO
It will offer higher level business and industry training to
new and emerging community bank leaders.
