Advocacy (Political Effectiveness)

• Credit Union Association Advocacy Key Contacts
• New 4th Edition - People, Not Profit: The Story of the Credit Union Movement
• Don’t Ignore the Warnings – Improve Governance
  and Document Your Good Deeds!

ALM

• ALM Workshops

Innovation

• Filene Research Institute Innovation Programs
• Center for Financial Services Innovation
• Innovation to the Core by Peter Skarzynski & Rowan Gibson
• twitter.com (it's all about who you follow!)

Leadership

• The CEO Refresher ... brainfood for business.
• Mandela, Mother Teresa, a Tree, a Pillow ... Images of Leadership from Future Leaders (Knowledge at Wharton)
• Recommended Reading
  • Leading without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community by Max De Pree
  • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? By Seth Godin
  • The One Thing You Need to Know about Great Managing, Great Leading and
  • Sustained Individual Success by Marcus Buckingham
  • Tribes: We Need You to Lead Up by Seth Godin
  • Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump
  • Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith  

Strategic Planning/Thinking  

• Recommended Reading

• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
• Get Better or Get Beaten! 31 Leadership Secrets from GE's Jack Welch by Robert Slater
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Centuryby Thomas L. Friedman

CUNA

• CU360 - Guide your decisions with CU360 - the movement's most robust online research and advice portal. CU360 combines market insights and thought leadership with interactive, innovative, benchmarking and analytical tools. (Subscription service.)
• BoardAssessment.com
  Complete with online group and self evaluation, this tool not only helps your credit union measure the skills and knowledge of your credit union board, it also provides solutions and resources to improve board scores.
• Competency Assessments/Career Pathing
• CPDOnline Competency Assessments enable your credit union staff to assess themselves for one or more positions.
• CU Advance
  The key to creating high performing employees! A competency-based learning program developed by CUNA Center for Professional Development. Learners take courses based on their own personal competencies, knowledge, training, and experience. Take charge of your career path and choose the courses that help you fill your competency needs.
• Customized Comparative Analysis
  Compare Your Credit Union to a Peer Group of Your Choice.
• CUNA E-Scan Report (updated annually)
  
• So You Want to Open a Credit Union Branch?
• Taking a Community Charter and Running with It

• Organizational Fitness Model
• Zopa
• POD Credit Union Organizational Chart

• FFIEC IT Handbook InfoBase http://www.ffiec.gov/ffiecinfobase/index.html
• Survival on the Range (Talent Management) Article by Randy Pennington
• Beware of Dissatisfied Consumers: They Like to Blab (Knowledge at Wharton)
• The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well by Paula LaRocque (Marion Street Press)
• Experience Economy Article
• Mind Tools - Free Help (communication, creativity, stress management, problem solving, time management and more)