Associated Bank reviews

The management in many instances lack people and leadership skills. There is a high rate of employee turnover due to management undervaluing their direct reports.

Shareholder pressures are lethal to the retail bank. This compression forces extreme measures by upper management that translate into unrealistic sales goals while cutting FTE. The results are shadow sales goals, and less than 1% of branch management making bonus. There are cliques that are hard to break into, and a lot of decisions are made without thinking of real world impact.