That would be me, Peggy, the Garland Group’s Administrative Assistant. I joined the company at the end of May and have been learning a bit since then about the banking industry. It’s changed quite a bit since i was a teller back in the seventies! Several of the guys I now work with weren’t even born when I was posting deposits on a computer that was almost the size of my desk here at the office, and I was opening savings accounts that paid 16% interest!! Lots of changes in the banking industry through the years. I recently found out that I can’t go into my bank and ask for an auto loan. Those, at least at my bank (which is one of the largest), are done completely online. I imagine it’s the same when applying for a mortgage loan.
Archive for July, 2008
A Different Way to Bank
As a baby boomer, the traditional branch location continues to have some value for use of a community room, safe deposit boxes and just looking your banker in the eye; but the X & Y generations see little to no value in using the traditional branch. Yeah, they may have to go once in a while to get a cashiers check, or sign loan papers, but it’s an exception instead of the rule.
Banktastic.com Begins Partnership with Texas Bankers Association
Social Knowledge Site Introduces New Media to Banking Industry.
Communicative Environments
Throughout my career, I have found that the single most frequent cause of a project or group’s failure occurs when the individual’s involved fail to communicate. While the seemingly obvious problem is easily visible, the transitions required to correct the situation are less pronounced and can be difficult to implement when one is not focusing on the process. The path toward correction of the communication problem has a dysfunctional, collaborative, and anticipatory phase. Discerning which phase a group is in can be simple once one understands the specific symptoms or attributes of the phases.