What Motivates Your Professional Development?

By Lisa Hochgraf

I'm an editor. So I get excited about grammar. And beautiful writing. And the way images and text can best work together to clearly present ideas.

So you can imagine my reaction last year when I learned that Edward Tufte, a world-class analyst of graphic information and its effective presentation, was presenting day-long seminars across the country. I was practically jumping up and down like a kid, asking my boss, "Can I go? Can I go?"

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Marketing a Four-Minute Loan

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

Can your credit union get a member an online loan decision in four minutes or less? Do you tell the member how fast the process is up front?

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Cards Buffet

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

Last week I worked from CUES headquarters in Madison, Wis., rather than my home office in Rochester, N.Y. When I stopped at a grocery not far from CUES Madison to pick up birthday treats for a colleague, I was impressed by something I saw in the checkout lane: I'll call it a "cards buffet."

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Professional Development Pause

By Lisa Hochgraf

One of my favorite stories that I read or heard somewhere and like to re-tell is about how the world's finest scientists benefit greatly from stopping what they are doing, writing up their work, and flying off to a conference with other researchers in their field.

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