It starts with effective leadership skills. In today's challenging economy and diverse sign producer workforce, implementing superior, competitive leadership skills is critical to your success. Visionary, global and long- range thinking play major roles in your beating the competition. Where most organizations have the same equipment, same strategies, same sales channels and competitive products and services, you have to be extraordinarily different and superior in your ability to organize new business paths, find new customers, communicate, encourage, influence, and energize your workforce. You also must be able to create and maintain loyal customer relationships through superior service. And finally, you must have the extraordinary ability to develop a self-motivating work environment. This presentation shows you a proven formula that works. Topics include the critical characteristics that drive a successful competitive leader, effective ways to compete with your products and services and how to create new ones, ways to establish the right customer image, ways to improve customer retention, how to define your business, how to face the challenges that lie ahead and ways to stay focused on that all-important vision.