CUNA Management School Tops List of July’s Learning Events

May 14, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Katye Long
CUNA Communications; (608) 231-4038
klong@cuna.coop

MADISON, Wis. - The longest-running continuing education program for leaders in the credit union movement – CUNA Management School – is just one of a variety of learning opportunities for credit union professionals available in CUNA’s July event schedule.

Credit union personnel who aspire to achieve senior-level management and leadership positions should attend CUNA Management School, slated July 13-25 in Madison. The program challenges credit union professionals to be outstanding leaders in the credit union movement by providing valuable leadership skills and lessons as a strategic step toward career advancement.

This leadership development program consists of three years of a single two-week session each summer. Through a blend of university classes and experiential learning activities, the program addresses: credit union philosophy, organizational behavior, crisis management, coaching and leadership, business law, politics and legislation, marketing, human resources, finance, accounting, ethics, economics, and more.

CUNA Management School also has three regional locations around the country:

• Southwest region – Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas. Contact Janine McBee at the Texas Credit Union League.
• Southeast region – University of Georgia in Athens, Ga. Contact Jennifer Green at the Louisiana Credit Union League.
• Western region – Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. Contact Nancy Dotson at the California Credit Union League.

Additional July learning opportunities from CUNA include:

In partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, four Business Lending Certification Institutes will be offered July 21-25 in Madison to help credit unions serve the financial needs of their members’ small businesses.

The new Business Lending Certification Institute: Management Strategies is designed to help credit unions make mid-course corrections to improve the results of an existing member business program. It is created for those responsible for the strategy, planning, and management of an established program and will include an evaluation process to help attendees formulate action plans to improve the current lending program.

Business Lending Certification Institute: Fundamentals explains the components of offering business lending services to build a solid program foundation. It will start off with lending regulations and business basics and then moves into financial and application analysis, loan structuring, loan default warning signs, member loan protection, and additional member business services.

Business Lending Certification Institute: Credit Analysis will help attendees develop skills needed to perform an in-depth evaluation of the credit needs of member businesses. Topics include: business credit and tax return analysis, financing fast-growth businesses, loan repayment, business life cycles, financial projections, and business plan case studies.

The Business Lending Certification Institute: Advanced Credit Analysis focuses on evaluating the financing needs of different industries – manufacturing, service sector, retail, and commercial real estate. It also covers financing the purchase of an existing business and uses actual case studies and loan requests to help better understand the specific markets, issues, and red flags of each specific industry.

The Compliance Fundamentals Seminar will take place July 19-20, in Chicago, with two levels of compliance schools directly following. The overview seminar is offered as an introduction or refresher of more than 25 regulations that affect credit unions on a daily basis.

Those who are new to compliance or have not had compliance training in more than two years can gain a thorough understanding of the credit union regulatory environment through the July 20-25 Regulatory Compliance School: Introduction. It will cover regulations for mortgage and consumer lending, deposit accounts, and general operations, along with NCUA requirements and guidance issues.

CUNA also offers Regulatory Compliance School: Update, July 20-24 for a review of new and updated compliance issues as well as this year’s hot issues. The school will explore vendor due diligence and the Bank Secrecy Act, as well as compliance issues for mortgage and consumer lending, eBanking, and more. Additionally, participants will learn about the NCUA’s red flag-issues for the year, credit card breaches, and conducting effective compliance audits.

For those who are interested in either certification or recertification, testing for the Credit Union Compliance Expert (CUCE) designation will be offered on site.

Credit union managers can enhance their leadership potential and hone their communications skills with the five-session Building Credit Union Leadership Through Communications eSchool, July 23 – Aug. 20. Course work will uncover the keys to engaging communications and how to use these skills to build collaborative teams, developing relationships with staff, and create member service excellence.

An eSchool is a series of interactive classroom sessions that features live, real-time instruction from industry experts via the Internet and a telephone conference call. Students are able to interact with the instructor and other participants via online chats and live discussion.

For more information on these or other learning opportunities offered by CUNA, visit training.cuna.org, or call (800) 356-9655, ext. 4249.

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