Description

Melissa Perrin serves as EVP, Chief Culture and Communications Officer at First United Bank. Melissa began her career with First United in 2004 and in her role, she oversees culture, communications, and marketing. Her focus is on purpose, values and vision work, employee and customer engagement, workplace and customer space environments, branding and messaging, and First United’s Spend Life Wisely mission.  

Melissa is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Human Resource Management course, the Stagen Integral Leadership Program, and a graduate of the Stagen Advanced Leadership Program. In 2019, she was recognized as one of Conscious Company’s 35 World-Changing Women.

In this episode Steve and Melissa discuss:

• Inspiring people to love being at work
• Spending life wisely 
• Openness and appreciation 
• Applying the law of entropy 

Key Takeaways: 

• Create a work culture that inspires people to love being at work, all with the same desire for both customers and coworkers to leave every interaction being better and feeling elevated. 
• Spending life wisely goes beyond just being prudent on financial matters, but also includes taking care of your health, personal growth, and the cultivation of your faith. 
• Encouraging openness in the workplace will help everyone understand each other and appreciate each other more. Constant feedback and appreciation to inform each person what they did right will help them grow into better people. 
• We are either leaving people better or worse, never neutral. We must put a lot of intention in leaving the people we encounter a little bit better. 

“My goal is that everybody walks away from any type of interaction with First United or myself feeling a little bit better, a little elevated because life is so hard for us anyway like it is...” - Melissa Perrin 

Connect with Melissa Perrin:

Website: www.firstunitedbank.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissalperrin/

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: grow@rewireinc.com

Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla

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