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Apply Now for Expansions

We’re pleased to announce that applications for Expansions, the Company’s leadership development program, are now open! Team members interested in joining the 2022 Expansions session can now apply.

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Work From Anywhere: The Essential Guide to Becoming a World-Class Hybrid Team

The global pandemic ushered in a new reality of remote work––a trend that’s likely here to stay. Work From Anywhere delivers practical strategies on developing a high-performing team and business in a remote, distributed environment. Accomplished authors, behavioral experts, and fast-growth business leaders Alison Hill and Darren Hill show you how to create these strategies to bring out the best in your hybrid and remote team members, by focusing on both performance and people.

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

In this book, Marshall Goldsmith begins by examining the trouble with success, explaining how previous accomplishments often prevent leaders from gaining more success. He analyzes why high achievers are so resistant to change due to their delusion of success, pointing out that they can’t see
that what got them here won’t get them there.

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The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

There is one thing that is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy and civilization throughout the world — one thing which, if removed, will destroy the most powerful government, the most successful business, the most thriving economy, the most influential leadership, the greatest friendship, the strongest character, the deepest love.

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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the time it finally disappeared, it’s likely no one even noticed. What happened? The “whirlwind” of urgent activity required to keep things running devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest in executing your strategy for tomorrow!

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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

Consider two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. They are Diminishers. Then there are leaders who amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them.

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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

Organizations face many challenges in today’s shaky economy — competitive battles, increased costs, decreased margins, and a host of other internal and external forces. In order to shore up their companies’ responses to these factors, today’s leaders must be able to take the goals they set for their organizations and turn them into results.

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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Relationships are the priority of life, and conversations help us care for our relationships with talking and listening.The quality of your life comes out of the quality of your dialogues and conversations. Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler — the founders of VitalSmarts — helps you think about what you really want to say.

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