Zig Ziglar's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Zig Ziglar is an all-American success story. Affected early in life by his father's death, young Zig learned great compassion for people plus commitment to a hard-work and balanced-life ethic, at the knee of his highly principled mother. A talented author and speaker, Zig Ziglar has an appeal that transcends barriers of age, culture, and occupation. Zig Ziglar has traveled over five million miles across the world delivering powerful life improvement messages, cultivating the energy of change.
Prison Fellowship in North Carolina has found the Zig Ziglar training materials to be an invaluable component of the Reentry Life Plan program to prepare prisoners for a successful reentry back into their families and communities. Some of the graduates are now using the Zig Ziglar materials to teach their children. The recidivism rate among the Reentry program graduates who have returned to society is 6% versus a rate of 40% for non-graduates in North Carolina.
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In addition, Zig Ziglar has written over thirty celebrated books on personal growth, leadership, sales, faith, family and success, including: See You at the Top, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World, Top Performance, Courtship After Marriage, Over The Top, Success For Dummies, Confessions of a Grieving Christianand Secrets of Closing the Sale. Nine titles have been on the best seller lists and his books and tapes have been translated into over thirty-eight languages and dialects. His autobiography, ZIG, was published in July 2002.
Zig Ziglar's motto is: "You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." Implementing this precise principle, businesses and organizations throughout the world have grown more profitable by improving their number-one resource - their people.
Zig Ziglar has shared the platform with such distinguished Americans as Presidents Ford, Reagan, and Bush, Generals Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Paul Harvey, and Dr. Robert Schuller, as well as numerous U.S. congressmen and governors. A well-known authority on the science of human potential, Zig Ziglar has been recognized three times in the Congressional Record of the United States for his work with youth in the drug war, and for his dedication to America and the free enterprise system.
Speaking the language of active business leaders, Zig Ziglar has been featured in such publications as The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Dallas Morning News, and Fortune magazine, to name a few. Zig Ziglar has also appeared on many television programs.
Zig Ziglar's corporation is built upon the same philosophy he expounds to his audiences - hard work, common sense, fairness, commitment and integrity. Zig Ziglar offers public seminars, customized educational programs, workshops and keynote presentations - all focused on personal and professional development. Profoundly affecting the lives of people, Zig Ziglar has a client list that includes thousands of small and mid-sized businesses, Fortune 500 Companies, U.S. Government agencies, churches, schools and non-profit associations.
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Zig Ziglar did not inherit his professional status, nor was it an accident. After struggling early in his sales career, this Yazoo City, Mississippi, native paid the price of time, discipline, and energy to become a sales champion. He placed second in one national firm of over 7,000 and first in another company with a 3,000-plus sales staff.
In 1970, Zig Ziglar launched his full-time speaking career and built a multi-million dollar corporation on the same philosophy he expounds to his audiences--hard work, common sense, fairness, integrity, commitment, and an infectious sense of humor.
Since 1970, an extensive array of Zig Ziglar audio, video, books, and training manuals have been utilized by small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, U.S. Government agencies, churches, school districts, prisons, and non-profit associations, affecting lives in a profound way. |
