July 28, 2018 Sageworks has selected Clarity President, Nick Miller, to speak at the company’s annual user conference. Miller’s topic will be: Lenders in the 2020s – Product Specialist or Business Advisor? – “Lenders” today are primarily “senior bank debt product specialists” — risk-assessing cash dispensers who view deposits, treasury management and other services as … Read more »
July 26, 2018 The transition to Universal Banker models involves more than cross-training branch staff on branch operations, bestowing new titles, and paying higher salaries in the hope of achieving greater branch sales success. Clarity President, Nick Miller, joined Peak Performance Group President, David Kerstein, and Director, Ric Carey, on a Peak Performance Group … Read more »
April 15, 2018 Clarity has been engaged by a super-regional bank’s business banking team to assist in broadening the bankers’ approaches from loans, in which they generate top-of-the-industry performance, to include deposits and cash management services. The objective is to continue the team’s loan generation momentum while increasing the number and quality of deposit and … Read more »
April 1, 2018 SourceMedia has invited Clarity President, Nick Miller, to return as Chairman and Master of Ceremonies for the November, 2018 Small Business Banking Conference, the industry-leading small business banking conference, now named “SmallBiz”. Miller has served in this capacity for six previous conferences, collaborating with the SourceMedia team to develop program content and … Read more »
January 15, 2018 Nick Miller, Clarity’s founder and president, will speak twice at the Deluxe Exchange conference in Boca Raton, Florida, on February 6 and 7. Miller’s presentation is entitled “Can the Leopards Change Their Spots? Boosting Sales Focus on Cash Management and Deposit Services.” While most conversations about commercial banking emphasize lending and many … Read more »
January 4, 2018 An $11 billion regional bank has retained Clarity to provide small business training to its branch managers. The training will be conducted in several phases during the 2018 calendar year. The bank will deploy Clarity’s “Talking Business with Small Business” program to provide foundational financial and conversation skills. Clarity will then provide … Read more »
December 10, 2017 Clarity is pleased to announce that the firm has been retained by a $12 billion regional bank to assess the company’s sales culture across multiple locations, to recommend strategies for further developing mid-career and senior lenders’ skills and capabilities, and to recommend an approach to transitioning senior credit analysts into junior lender … Read more »
September 25, 2017 – Clarity President, Nick Miller, spoke today at the Sageworks 2017 Risk Management Summit. During his presentation, “Transforming ‘Lenders’ into ‘Bankers and Advisors’”, Miller spoke about challenges of aligning the credit policy and underwriting teams with line bankers and provided a six-element framework for increasing the alignment and the value provided to … Read more »
[April 20, 2017] Waiting for the knock on your door? Our first check point in evaluating our clients’ consumer and small business sales practices is context: “What is the bank’s philosophy?” Read more »
[April 18, 2017] The timing of the Wells Fargo case is symptomatic of a broader failure. The general theory about “why this happened” is that branch incentive programs were wrong (widget-based) and that sales managers were far too aggressive in pushing sales staff to sell more. All true, well documented. However: People tend to “go … Read more »
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