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Sales, Service and Leadership Training

We’ll help you transform your credit union’s culture around sales, service and leadership. Our clients consistently receive national recognition and prestigious awards each year, including CUNA, NAFCU and various State League/Association Credit Unions of the Year honors – and continually appear in the Forbes Best-In-State Credit Union list. 69% of the top-ranked credit unions for member experience are ServiStar clients.

What’s different about Servistar is that we partnered with the Filene Research Institute to produce research that provides insight into the skills and attributes that create high-performing managers and employees. This research is applied through the skills that ServiStar trains to your employees.

The ServiStar Philosophy

A bank's sales process is "product-centric," and pushing a pre-determined product to each customer is the primary goal. A credit union should be "member-centric," with a focus on improving the financial lives of its members.

Our programs are rooted in the philosophy that the goal of training, coaching and all aspects of culture should encourage employees to determine a need unique to the member and offer a solution. We should never sell something to members that they don't need. A successful credit union moves the focus from the process of the transaction to helping each member, based on their needs. This transformation encourages teamwork and allows members to benefit from "extra-mile" service.

Our academic-level research, published by the Filene Research Institute validates that credit union employees don't want to be salespeople, credit union employees want positive outcomes for their members and credit union employees are committed to their ideas; no trainer or manager is going to convince them that selling a product is a good thing to do. So why have we been so successful over the past 25 years? We understand that we must lead and speak to employees from a "missional" perspective. Employees want to save their members money and make their lives better; they don't want to sell. Our results in developing employee engagement in the process of recommending products and services to members are so impressive that our clients have ben written about in Credit Union Management Magazine.

Get in touch with us today, we'd love to discuss the biggest challenges your credit union is facing and we can partner for success.

Who is this solution for?

  • All Employees

  • Learning and Development leaders that want to leverage their trainers to improve credit union performance

  • A better kind of partnership

  • Tailor-made solutions

    We tailor your program to meet your credit union's unique needs

  • We deliver on your schedule, in your preferred way

    We can deliver our solutions on-site, live online or through a hybrid delivery approach

  • Trainer certification and program-licensing is available

    If you prefer, your trainers can deliver our programs through our trainer certification and program licensing option

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