Credit Union Times

MARCH 21, 2018 | VOL. 29 | NO. 9 | CUTIMES.COM

Y16

Stopping Gun Violence

CUs should speak out on the issue. Y14

Core Transitions

Plan ahead for a smooth one. Y10

When it comes to technology, credit unions want solutions that allow flexibility, improve the member experience and simplify back-end processes. Learn how one credit union reached these goals through a single core conversion in this Focus Report. Y6

CORE PROCESSING

FOCUSREPORT: Must Reads

HUMAN RESOURCES

Tech and Workplace Safety
Technology is opening new fron-
tiers in risk management.
Keeping pace with these fast-
paced advancements can be
tough. But using new technology
to prevent human and financial
losses that otherwise would oc-
cur, is certainly worth the effort.

When reviewing the latest trends, keep in mind that these are tools and strategies, not silver bullets. The culture and customs that lead to a safe workplace, and a higher quality enterprise, are deeply-rooted in the four traditional cornerstones of sound safety management, which are:

• Management Commitment
& Employee Involvement
• Worksite Analysis
• Hazard Prevention & Control
• Training
Once that foundation is firmly
in place, take a look at these sub-
categories in the tech space that
could become difference-mak-
ers in your organization.

There Really Is an
App for That

Apps are being released at a staggering pace, and this is greatly influencing workplace safety.

Just run a web search for “worker (or worksite) safety apps” or “environmental safety apps” and see what it returns.

When considering new technology, we must appreciate that there are safety apps developed in lockstep with true safety professionals, and then

Open Your Eyes to a New Campaign

rare event happens when a crowd of credit union professionals gather in a room and all agree on the discussed topic. Some may even describe it as a miracle.

Yet, this actually happened
during a CUNA GAC breakout
session last month when credit
union executives and employ-
ees from across the nation all
seemed to have nothing but posi-
tive comments about a new mar-
keting campaign, Open Your
Eyes, which may become the next
game changer for
the credit union
industry.

“This is the third
national branding
effort that we’ve
had in the credit
union system,” Rich
Helber, president/
CEO of the $695 million Tropical
Financial Credit Union in Miramar,
Fla., said. “We’ve made more prog-
ress than anybody else ever has. I
really love what you’re doing.”
“Brilliant!” ex-
claimed millennial
employee Tyler
Kuhn, who works
in marketing and
community rela-
tions at the $462
million Dover Fed-
eral Credit
PETER STROZNIAK
pstrozniak@cutimes.com

MARKETING

Y17 Helber Kuhn Y18 arrie Foran Sepulveda graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in business in 2009, the second year of the Great Recession when 5. 5 million workers lost their jobs and few companies were shopping for college grads.

She chose to enroll in the Teach for America program, helping high schoolers in a poor section of Hawaii learn math. Three years and a master’s degree in education later, she pursued her original career ambition by joining Navy Federal Credit Union as a business analyst.

By late 2013, she was working on a project near and dear to her generation: A program to help students and recent graduates pay for their often enormous education debts.

She worked to create a private student loan program for Navy Federal under Aaron Aggerwal, who got his MBA while working as a business analyst at Sallie Mae from 2004 to 2010.