Find your VOICE of CHANGE! WINNERS! Leadercast 2011

WINNERS! Leadercast is a one-day leadership development event that provides practical tools to help you more effectively lead at work, home and in your community. This live simulcast includes some of the most influential leaders from a variety of industries sharing insight to address the challenges of influencing and leading others. Find your VOICE of Change!

Leadercast Sponsorship - Springfield, VA - May 6th, 2011

I am inviting your organization to partner with WINNERS! as a corporate sponsor.  There are three different levels of corporate sponsorship - Gold, Silver and Bronze. The benefits of this partnership are highlighted in the attached flyer.  We also invite you to use this day as a professional development day for your organization’s leaders and managers.  We have very limited capacity for this 

outstanding event and we anticipate that tickets will be exhausted rapidly, therefore, we encourage you to get your tickets right away.  Last year, the Chick-fil-A Leadercast was the No. 2 trending topic of the day on Twitter.  It was featured on over 30 million Chick-fil-A beverage cups nationwide.  We hope that you will partner with us in sponsorship as over 70,000 leaders from around the world gather for this outstanding inspirational event.

I am available to answer any questions.  Please feel free to contact me at nickey.knighton@thewinnersllc.com or 202-577-5004.  In addition, information is available on our website at www.thewinnersllc.com  or at www.chick-fil-aleadercast.com . I  look forward to sharing this exciting day with you.

Yours In Service,

Nickey Knighton

Nickey Knighton, WINNERS!

Principal Owner 

Senior Executive Partner 

 

WINNERS! hosts chick-fil-a Leadercast

   

Springfield, VA, Jan 16, 2011 — Looking for an affordable way to provide quality training to your leadership team?  Searching for an opportunity and place to advertise your business to other business leaders in our local community? 

WINNERS! - a People Investment Company, is hosting the 2011 Chick-fil-A Leadercast, on Friday, May 6, 2011 in the D.C. Metro Area at the Waterford Conference Center, 6715 Commerce Street, Springfield, VA 22150.  The Chick-fil-A Leadercast is an international leadership development event held in Atlanta, Georgia and webcasted to thousands of leaders in 13 countries around the world.  In partnership with WINNERS!, this is the first year that it will be offered in the DC Metropolitan Area.

This year’s theme is “Voices of Change - Your voice of change creates new possibilities.”  At this annual leadership event presented by Chick-fil-A, leaders from around the world will identify and develop their own leadership voice. 

WINNERS! is proud to bring the leadership development event of the year to our community. This year’s event will feature the following world renown leaders and voices of influence, hope, purpose, service and innovation:

• Seth Godin - Entrepreneur and Best Selling Author
• John Maxwell - Leadership Expert and Best Selling Author
• Mack Brown - Head Coach of the Texas Longhorns
• Suzy Welch - Best Selling Author and Journalist
• Erin Gruwell - Founder and President of Freedom Writers Foundation
• Robin Roberts - Anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America”
• Muhtar Kent - Board Chair and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
• Dan Cathy - President and COO of Chick-fil-A, Inc.
• Dave Ramsey - Author, Money Management Expert and Radio Personality
• Frans Johansson - Best Selling Author  
• Sir Ken Robinson - Leadership Expert and Best Selling Author

WINNERS! operates out of Springfield, VA and provides services in Executive and Leadership Coaching,  Business Consulting, Organizational Development and Keynote Presentations.  Broadcasted live from Atlanta, Georgia, the Chick-fil-A Leadercast was the No. 2 trending topic of the day on Twitter in 2010. The Leadercast was also advertised on over 30 million cups at Chick-fil-A Restaurants.  Attendees to the Leadercast in Springfield are eligible for 5-1/2 hours of professional development training credit.  Breakfast, lunch and snacks are provided and parking is free with the purchase of a ticket.  On May 6, you will be inspired along with over 70,000 leaders from around the world at the 2011 Chick-fil-A Leadercast.  At the end of the day, you will be able to articulate and demonstrate the power of change through your positive leadership voice.  You don’t want to miss it!

www.chick-fil-aleadercast.com 

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Great Leaders STAY CONNECTED to their PEOPLE!!!

"We decided the only way we were going to get out of trouble was if we went back to the employees and reignited the spirit of Delta Airlines. Over 18 months, we brought all 50,000 employees through our headquarters to talk about the company. We told them the hard facts and accepted responsibility for our mistakes. The employees knew we didn’t have a lot of money to share and that they would have to make sacrifices. However, at the end of the day, they really wanted our time and attention, not our money. They wanted to connect with us to reignite a spirit that would lead the company back to greatness." - Ed Bastian, Delta Airlines 

LEADERSHIP VERSUS MANAGEMENT

"Management is about control. Leadership is about guidance. To run an organization effectively, you need to control operations and systems, and you need to provide guidance to people. Manage by holding administration tightly, but lead by holding the reins of leadership lightly. Management involves putting the right people into the right places with the right resources. Leadership is about turning those right people loose by setting high expectations, providing coaching and acknowledging achievement." - John Baldoni, author and thought leader

LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM A FAMOUS BATTLEFIELD

"This is where they fought the battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fighting the same fight that we are still fighting among ourselves today. This green field right here, painted red, bubblin’ with the blood of young boys. Smoke and hot lead pouring right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men. 'I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family.' You listen, and you take a lesson from the dead. If we don’t come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. I don’t care if you like each other or not, but you will respect each other. And maybe… I don’t know, just maybe we’ll learn to play this game like men." 

- Coach Boone [Denzel Washington], Movie:  Remember the Titans 

(Actually, it was 50K Casualties, not deaths at Gettysburg, but the leadership lesson that Coach Boone taught make the intended impact).

Winning!!!

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. 
        - Muhammad Ali