Talent

Led by Filene Fellow Sekou Bermiss, the Center for War for Talent connects credit unions to solutions for attracting, developing, and promoting top performers, from the front line to the board table.

Filene Fellow

Sekou Bermiss

Associate Professor of Management at the McCombs School of Business

University of Texas at Austin

Talent Research

Talent / May 20 2019

Leveraging Employee Loss for Employee Gain

Within most organizations, employee recruitment and turnover are inextricably linked. The questions of whom to recruit and when to recruit...

Talent / May 06 2019

Incentive Pay: Research and Guidance for Credit Unions

Is incentive or variable pay worthwhile for credit unions? The short answer: it depends. Small-scale programs, when carefully managed, may...

Talent / Dec 28 2018

Young Professionals: Will They Come? Will They Stay? Or Will They Go?

What Filene’s research says about the state of attraction and retention of young adults at credit unions.

Talent / Nov 08 2018

Formalizing the Art of Board Composition

A board of directors can make or break the success of a credit union. Yet credit unions sometimes find board...

Talent / Nov 16 2018

Best Practices are Dead. Experiment Instead!: Research in Action Recap

It’s easy to assume that a policy adopted by industry leaders will lead to success for your organization. But what...

Talent / Jun 28 2018

Diving Headfirst into the (Applicant) Pool: How Employee Attraction Impacts Employee Retention

This report uses credit union human resources data to investigate the process of generating potential applicants, and identifies various conditions...