Build Your Skills with the NACS Leadership Challenge

Industry’s emerging leaders can develop skills for long-term personal growth and professional results.

December 17, 2014

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The NACS Leadership Challenge, taking place April 19–24 in Millwood, Virginia, provides rising leaders in the convenience and fuel retailing industry an invaluable experience to discover personal strengths that they can use to grow their career, while creating a more profitable and performance-oriented environment within their company.

NACS Leadership Challenge focuses on acquiring the skills that participants can use on the job to improve their leadership and operational performance; participants experience real results in the workplace, enabling them to help improve their companies’ bottom line. 2014 Leadership Challenge participants achieved the following performance improvements after returning to their stores:

  • Employee turnover improved by 21% for one participant and 44% for another.
  • One participant saw a 5.85% growth of inside sales.
  • Almost all teams saw reduced turnover and increased sales, by focusing on the emotional intelligence strategies of self-awareness, listening and coaching.

“I cannot even express how much the challenge has impacted all that I do personally and professionally,” said past attendee Kelley Bishop, district manager for Tri Star Energy LLC dba Dailys Convenience Store. “I get compliments from co-workers, my team, and my boss regularly that I am not the same person I was a year ago … I feel now that I can inspire more people and affect those people’s futures.”

The unique week-long program improves employee performance and leadership skills through a proven formula for success: Business Experience + Leadership Intelligence + Ability to Execute = Improved Performance. Over five days, participants engage with each other through discussions, group projects, readings and experiential activities – all designed to improve performance in the workplace and build the critical skills needed to become a leader in the industry. The five days of the program are comprehensive and intense, but it’s just the beginning of the leadership development for participants. In the six months following the program, each participant joins a business team of their choosing to work on the store-specific business challenge they most need to accomplish, and will present their results in an educational session at the 2015 NACS Show in Las Vegas.

Learn more about the NACS Leadership Challenge, or contact NACS Programming and Education Manager Jenn Smith at jsmith@nacsonline.com or (703) 518-4295.

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