Right to the Core Clear Values Anchor Cambrian's Growth
Winnipeg Free Press › February 17, 2010
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A: While it is healthy to bring in new leaders with outside perspectives, we also try to develop future leaders from within our organization. Our leaders' values must be consistently aligned with our core values and they should demonstrate a personal desire to lead this organization. We also need them to support a positive, balanced work environment and be critical thinkers because we welcome differences of opinion. Like a family, just because you have the same values, doesn't mean that you can't engage in serious, passionate disagreements from time to time - and that's a good thing. We encourage everyone here to continue their education and we also have a formal leadership program in place. It's not only offered to executives; in fact, I would say that nearly 30 per cent of our people have gone through the program. Leadership is not necessarily tied to a title; so even if they aren't formally considered a leader yet, we hope they are starting to think like one.
Our third value is one that is admittedly unique for a credit union - competitive. However, we want to be the best we can be and we measure our progress by industry metrics so that we know we are moving forward and creating value for our members. The fourth value, innovative spirit, demonstrates just how much we like to challenge ourselves. We may not be the largest financial institution in Canada, but that doesn't mean we can't be innovative. It doesn't mean we can't move faster. That spirit is important in an organization of our size because we don't have an research and development department working on new initiatives all the time; our R&D department is made up of all 240 people who work here.See the full content of this document
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Right to the Core Clear Values Anchor Cambrian's Growth
When Cambrian Credit Union president and CEO Tom Bryk joined the organization in 1999, his first course of action was to help define what made it tick.
"I wanted to know what was core to the organization," Bryk says. "Coming in from the outside, those values soon became very apparent to me, and they became more obvious once I better understood how the credit union had grown and the standards sh...See the full content of this document
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