Nashville American Marketing Association

When Growth Stalls:  How it Happens, Why You're Stuck, and What to Do About It.

At some point in every company’s life cycle, stalled growth is the rule, not the exception -- even for the best-managed organizations. That’s especially true in tumultuous economic environments such as the one we’re experiencing today.  In an engaging style filled with current examples, McKee demonstrates that sluggish growth is generally produced not by mismanagement or strategic blundering, but by natural market forces and internal management factors that often go unrecognized. And he offers practical advice about how to prevent—or overcome—these destructive dynamics. 

When & Where?

March 3, 2010

11:30A - 1:00 P (Networking begins at 11:00A)

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All that and lunch too? Sign me up!  (The Longer You Wait, the More it Costs.)

Wednesday, March 3, 11:00-1:00p.m.

Guaranteed Registration through 2/26/10:  NAMA  or PRSA Members $30 - Non-members and Guests $40

Limited First come / First Served Registration Available 2/27 - 3/2:  NAMA or PRSA Members $35 - Non-members and Guests $50

Day of Event and Walk-ins will be accommodated on a space-available basis only:  NAMA or PRSA Members $40 - Non-members and Guests $55

 

Self-Parking in Hilton Garage Included in Price

Enter from Broadway or Division

 

The Hilton Garden Inn / Vanderbilt

1715 Broadway

Nashville, TN

615-369-5900

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A bit more about Steve:

Steve McKee, a columnist for BusinessWeek.com since 2005 and author of When Growth Stalls led his own company through a period of stalled growth and now consults corporations that need reinvigoration. A marketing strategist for over twenty years, McKee has held executive positions at NW Ayer, Della Femina Travisano & Partners, and Philips-Ramsey, a division of McCann-Erickson Worldwide. McKee is the president and co-founder of McKee Wallwork Cleveland, a full service agency based in Albuquerque, NM that has been recognized by the American Marketing Association with two Effie Awards for effectiveness in marketing communications and was recently featured by Advertising Age as one of ten top small agencies in the nation. Steve has been published or quoted in The New York Times, USA Today, Advertising Age, Adweek, Investor’s Business Daily and The Los Angeles Times, among others. He has appeared on CNBC, ESPN2, CNNfn, Bloomberg radio, and network television affiliates across America and is a frequent speaker at corporate and association events.

Take the Leap:  3 Steps to a Breakthrough Life

The greatest leaders understand how to maximize the performance of every individual, beginning with themselves. In this program, Rick Smith shows that leading yourself and others toward roles that fully leverage your strengths and passions – not fixing weaknesses – will increase engagement and performance, and accelerate development. He reveals how anyone can lead authentically, while leveraging the powerful leadership platform utilized by the most successful iconic leaders of the last several centuries. Finally, he shows how successful leaders develop and move forward by mitigating risk, not increasing it. This powerful three-step approach highlights how your organization or team can achieve expalosive results by encouraging every leader to take their own leap forward, tapping unprecedented personal growth and productivity.

Learn more and take a sneakpeek at Rick here.

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Guaranteed Registration through 4/02/10
NAMA Members $25 - Non-members and Guests $45
 
Limited First come / First Served Registration Available 4/3 - 4/6
NAMA Members $35 - Non-members and Guests $50
 
Walk-ins will be accommodated on a space-available basis only
NAMA Members $40 - Non-members and Guests $55
 
Self-Parking in Hilton Garage Included in Price
Enter from Broadway or Division
 
Location:

The Hilton Garden Inn / Vanderbilt
1715 Broadway
Nashville, TN
615-369-5900 

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More about Rick:

Rick Smith is the founding CEO of World 50, cited as one of the world’s most influential senior executive networking companies. He is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestseller The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers, which has been sold into 13 languages and remains one of the top-selling professional career books of all time. His latest release, The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great hit shelves in
September 2009 through Penguin/Portfolio.

A leading commentator on careers and professional and personal success, Rick has been featured by more than 50 media outlets. A once struggling executive recruiter, he momentarily broke out of the pack with a successful book only to be fired in the aftermath. And that’s when the journey of discovery began. Reviving an idea he had had several years earlier for top-level peer-to-peer exchange groups, World50, one of the world’s largest, most successful professional networking organizations was born.

Rick has interviewed hundreds of people in fields as varied as healthcare, retailing, community service and fashion to discover how they turned their careers from ordinary to extraordinary.  What he discovered is both dramatic and counterintuitive – that people who turn dull careers into deeply fulfilling ones, all follow a similar path. It’s this process that Rick shares with his audiences and it’s one that everyone can take.

 

In marketing, as in most professions, the best individual reputations are built over the course of years by consistently providing leadership and results. And now NAMA has created a new category in its annual Achievement in Marketing awards to honor those long-term accomplishments.

The Distinguished Marketer of the Year Award will be presented to an individual who over the course of a career has demonstrated consistent leadership to the profession and who has provided results year in and year out for her or his client, company or organization.

AIM Awards Nominations

Nominations are due Friday, Jan. 29. (Late entries will be accepted – with payment of an additional fee -- until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 10th.)

As in past years, awards will be given in three categories – Business to Consumer, Business to Business and Not for Profit. A Best of Show award will also be presented.

Click here for more information on entering.

Location

The awards will be presented May 5, 2010 in a luncheon at the Wildhorse Saloon. Registration information will be available soon.