With Chris busy teaching at NEI's Professional Contemporary Animal Training and Management Workshop, Ari gets some coworker support and is joined by special co-host Adam Geltz and returning guest Shay Gruman! The three talk about how they've each been working on their personal and professional growth outside of NEI, reflecting on how breaking goals into smaller parts can help increase one's rate of reinforcement, the importance of building both active and passive skills, the gift we give others when we intervene less, and what continual growth looks like as people with different backgrounds that are currently in three different levels of the company.

References:

• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Grenny, Patterson, Et Al
• FYI: For Your Improvement - A Development and Coaching Guide by Michael Lombardo and Robert Eichinger
• The HealthyGamerGG Podcast with Dr. K
• The Animal Training Academy Podcast Show with Ryan Cartlidge
• Drinking From The Toiletby Hannah Brannigan
• Jocko Willink - Retired US Navy Seal, Author, Leadership Instructor

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