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In addition to offering training on-site at our training facility and on the road at client businesses all over the country, did you know that we also have a line-up of leaders from around the Zingerman's Community of Businesses who present at events on a variety of different topics - be it the values we hold dear, the system we use to streamline our operations or our recipes for giving great customer service?

Zingerman’s didn’t invent the idea of Servant Leadership - we learned our approach from Robert Greenleaf and have adapted his thoughts, along with the thoughts of many other leaders we’ve admired, into our approach to Servant Leadership.  The basic idea of servant leadership is that, first and foremost, we are here to serve the organization. The higher we move up in the organization, the more people we are there to serve, not the more people who are there to serve us.

One of the most common questions we get asked as trainers is:

We’ve got another acronym to add to your repertoire. We think it’s a game changer, quite honestly. Are you ready for it?

“Not ANOTHER meeting?!”

We've written a guide for creating successful promotions and while we believe that successful promotions should be fun, they must also sell product. Here are a dozen techniques that can contribute to increased awareness and sales: