We live in an exciting and challenging time as bankers. A key feature of the excitement and challenge is developing next-generation bankers. Our success in finding, recruiting, training and developing bankers and bank leaders may be the greatest determinate of our future success.
Optimizing our investment in talent requires that we ensure that employees are afforded the training to address complex regulatory and business challenges. Also critical is accelerating professional development for managers and future leaders. In most banks it is difficult to achieve desired education and development goals exclusively through in-house resources.
Fortunately, our members have combined their resources to create and support the West Virginia Bankers Association education and professional development programs. This shared commitment provides member banks with employee development resources that are relevant, excellent, convenient and cost-effective.
The association is constantly evaluating current and potential education and development offerings to ensure they match what you need now. We rely on banker-led advisory committees composed of subject matter experts to help craft curriculum for banking schools, conferences and seminars. We also closely follow industry trends and banker comments to proactively identify timely training topics.
The association actively seeks, recruits and evaluates teachers, subject matter experts and thought leaders. We seek presenters who will meaningfully engage participants and impart useful and actionable information. The goals are always to provide participants with tools that will help them advance their banks and careers, as well as inspire innovative and practical thinking.
Time is a precious commodity in our banks. We are committed to ensuring that the educational programs we offer are worth the time invested and are provided in the most efficient manner, consistent with the desired educational and professional development goals. We offer many quality programs that are delivered online. We also offer live-in-state programs that enhance the learning experience by bringing peers from across the state and industry to learn and share together.
Our association is member-owned, and our education and professional development programs are member-driven. In serving our members, we prioritize providing education and professional development services at the lowest cost, consistent with maintaining our standards of excellence in programming, content, engagement and overall value. Because of our membership’s collective support, we can offer premier-quality programming at lower costs.
The West Virginia Bankers Association is proud to partner with our members to help educate, engage and encourage our banking professionals and the next generation of bank leaders. Together, we can help ensure our industry’s continued prosperity.
