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Mensaje del Presidente y Director General

As a member, serving you is our north star.

The world can be unpredictable. Interest rates climb and fall, regulations fluctuate, and tragic natural disasters affect us and our neighbors.

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Whatever happens externally, what matters is how we respond: the relationships we build together and the lives we improve.

Thank you for partnering with us to make our world a little better.

Our members are our lifeblood, our purpose, equal owners of our credit union. You are the reason we wake up in the morning.

Like lots of other companies, we ask our members for feedback. A member recently asked me, a little skeptically, what we actually do with all that feedback.

They were right to be skeptical. If we ask for a member’s time, we better pay them back in improvements.

Here are a few changes we’ve made based directly on feedback from our members:

1. More convenient locations.

Members consistently tell us that one of the most important things to them is having convenient locations. That need guided our work to add four new branches in the past couple years – in SE, SW, central, and NE areas of Portland Metro.

To put that into perspective: In Unitus’ first 79 years, we’d opened eight branches. In the past three years, we increased that by 50%. Personal member service is important to us because it’s important to you.

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2. Upgraded digital banking.

Another common need for our members was a more effective mobile and online banking experience. After a challenging transition for both employees and members, the uOnline Upgrade launched in June. Together we worked through the challenges and we’ve seen a swell of positive feedback from our members.

3. Smarter member support.

Members regularly call us (503-227-5571) with questions and issues. Last year alone we walked members through more than 215,000 calls. It’s important to our members, so it’s important to us. We’ve invested in a world of programs to improve member service:

1. • Reworking our team structure to connect members with the best support specialist for their need faster.
   • Members can now request a call-back to be served on their time, without waiting on hold.
   • Using new technology we are capturing insights from these hundreds of thousands of calls to identify and prepare for specific member needs before the call.

There are many more examples, and they all share a theme.

Service isn’t just a word around here. It’s a way of life. It’s a belief system.

It means that in our hearts, we measure our value by our ability to make our members’ lives better, happier, and warmer.

Thanks for being here with us and giving us the chance to serve you.

As long as you keep chasing your dreams, we’ll keep building better ways to help bring them to life.

 

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Sobre el autor: Steve Stapp se unió a Unitus como Presidente/CEO en septiembre de 2016. Dirige el liderazgo estratégico de la cooperativa de crédito en colaboración con el consejo de administración, el equipo directivo y el personal para establecer objetivos a largo plazo e iniciativas estratégicas que proporcionen un valor superior a los socios.

A Steve le gusta promover los sistemas de cooperativas de crédito en los países en desarrollo como miembro de la junta del Consejo Mundial de Cooperativas de Crédito, ayudar a ampliar la red de cooperativas de crédito a nivel nacional e internacional como miembro de la junta de la Red de Sucursales Compartidas CO-OP, y educar a la gente en todo el sector de las cooperativas de crédito con presentaciones periódicas sobre planificación estratégica, iniciativas de crecimiento y mucho más.