Access CUES Year-End Exclusive Membership Upgrade (New Members Only)
Your Potential, Realized
CUES is your CU’s one-stop-shop for exceptional talent development, offering something for everyone, including your CEO, board members, executives, managers, and staff members.
Over 90% of CUES members renew annually.
Year-End Exclusive Membership Upgrade
Join CUES as an Unlimited Member by December 31 and unlock the option to upgrade to Unlimited+ Membership. ($1,100 – $1,480 savings based on asset size)
For Nonmembers Only – activate this offer by contacting membership@cues.org.
Top 5 Reasons to Join CUES
Now’s the best time to join CUES—here's why:
- Save Big. Early access to your benefits gives you more bang for your buck—the earlier you join, the more time you’ll have to get a jump start on your 2024 professional goals.
- Improve Your Credit Union's Performance. Grow your credit union and gain a return on your most important asset, your people!
- Grow Your Career. A CUES Membership means easy access to continuing education and resources to help you do your job better.
- Find Your Crew. Learn and develop through a network of more than 47,000 of your peers.
- Keep Up on Industry Insights. Stay abreast of pertinent issues that affect the industry.
CUES is for Small Credit Unions Too!
Lower Pricing for CUs Under $149 Million in Assets.
Working at a smaller credit union means having multiple responsibilities and wearing many hats—CUES is here for you.
We make it easy to access quality professional development all in one place and that fits your schedule.
An Unlimited or Unlimited+ group membership means everyone at your credit union can benefit from:
- Harvard ManageMentor — 40+ online leadership development courses from the experts at Harvard Business Review.
- CUES Learning Portal — Easily expand your skillset in any soft skill or leadership topic you can imagine with the newly upgraded CUES Learning Portal, where you’ll find access to top-notch courses and engaging Learning Journeys.
- Online education for board members through CUES Director Education Center.
- CUES Virtual Classroom — Highly interactive online training.
- Our online networking community, CUESNet™, where members connect and share ideas and documents and learn from each other.
Our top tier Unlimited+ group membership also includes:
- CUES Compensation Survey Results — Access results of the annual CUES Executive Compensation Survey and CUES Employee Salary Survey.
- Governance+ — Premium, in-depth education for all your board members, online.
- Board Governance Assessment — Quickly and concisely gather honest feedback from all board members.
CUES Benefits
CUES has three membership levels: Individual, Unlimited, and Unlimited+. Explore the benefits of each below.
Individual Membership Benefits
Available to credit union staff or directors.
CUES Learning Portal
A blend of pre-set learning pathways and curated content offer an easy way to expand your skillset in just about any business topic you can imagine. From leadership and coaching to creative writing and data science, from communication to innovation and strategy to customer service, we have what you are looking to learn.
You can also build connections and leverage relationships when you recommend what you’ve learned with others. Managers—easily view the progress of your staff to aid in their development.
CUESNet
This online networking tool is dedicated to helping you easily connect and share with other CUES members. Plus, you can join communities, access our documents library, discover tips to help you make the most of your membership—and so much more. Think of it as your CUES Membership hub—access to everything CUES, right at your fingertips.
Save time and keep your organization up-to-date! Easily access and download credit union policy and procedure documents shared by fellow members, and contribute your own for others to use. You’ll find Members Share conveniently located in CUESNet.
Credit Union Management Magazine
Stay on top of the latest CU news with print and digital subscriptions to CUES monthly magazine. This publication is consistently top-rated within the industry, and offers articles covering general management, board, operations, marketing, and human resources.
CUES Director Education Center
Increase your competency on critical board topics with continually updated, interactive director education courses.
CUES State of Credit Union Training and Development Report
This whitepaper reports on high-level findings from the CUES Talent Development Survey, and offers four primary action steps to help credit unions overcome the most critical talent development challenges identified in this research.
Guide to Effective Mentorship
Build strong, effective mentor relationships, and find tips on ways to find a good match in a mentor with the practical tools found in this guide.
CUES Guide to Effective Board Mentorship
This guide offers actionable tips, strategies, and resources on building a highly effective board-level mentoring program for fostering growth and driving positive change.
Welcome to Credit Union Leadership Guide
Welcome to Credit Union Leadership is a guide for executives who are new to the credit union industry. Use this resource to help you embark on your new career.
CUES Councils
Learn directly from industry experts while connecting with peers at these in-person regional networking events. Plus, you can attend at the special member price!
Webinar Series
Meet your talent development needs anywhere, anytime with live or recorded educational webinars, offering hot topic presentations led by industry experts.
CUES Virtual Classroom
The closest thing to in-person learning, online! Participants can talk and interact with peers and experts, problem-solve, and build relationships, right from their desk. This is the perfect tool for staff with a limited professional development budget, and a great way to offer learning to up-and-coming employees.
Unlimited Membership Benefits
One group rate covers all credit union staff and directors. Includes Individual Membership benefits (above), PLUS:
Harvard ManageMentor
Making a presentation, creating a budget, negotiating a contract—you face challenges like these every day. CUES has partnered with Harvard ManageMentor, an online resource program which includes more than 40 topics addressing these critical management issues and more. Each online topic includes the practical advice and tools you need to succeed.
CUES Leadership Development Guide
Build your future leadership pipeline by learning how to easily ID the skills you need in high potential future leaders. Then, discover how to help them to realize their own potential.
Director Onboarding Tool Kit
A must for new board members! This guide explains a board member’s roles and responsibilities, covers credit union philosophy, and discusses board best practices.
Unlimited+ Membership Benefits
One group rate covers all credit union staff and directors. Includes Individual Membership and Unlimited Membership benefits (above), PLUS:
Compensation Surveys*
Attract and retain well-qualified staff at every level when you benchmark your organization’s compensation against others based on asset size, region, and membership size. You’ll have access to both executive and non-executive positions thanks to CUES Executive Compensation Survey and CUES Employee Salary Survey.
Governance+
Easily deliver premium, in-depth education to all of your directors with CUES’ board-excellence benefit, Governance+. These pre-designed, multi-step, digital learning pathways provide exclusive, deep director competency training featuring timely, relevant content from subject matter experts. Formerly known as CCUBE, these pathways consist of training videos, articles, whitepapers, and more.
Board Governance Assessment
Quickly and concisely gather honest feedback from all board members on key areas of governance such as board structure and composition, fiduciary oversight, and leadership culture. Results from this anonymous, online assessment tool will help your board build an agenda of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for it to prioritize and address.
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