TIGERS® Success Series Expands Their Inner Circle of Team Development Consulting Companies with Newly Licensed Team Building Exercise Facilitator

April 24, 2012

Bend, OR — Founder of TIGERS® Success Series, Dianne Crampton, announced today that Katherine Grady, owner of Image M Consulting of Encinitas, California has passed the TIGERS team building exercise licensing requirements. As a licensed TIGERS facilitator, Katherine joins the TIGERS Success Series elite “inner circle of team development consulting companies.” She brings over 20 years of HR, Marketing, Sales, Training, and Ground to Director level management expertise to the pharmaceutical and biotech facilitation and consulting arena. Her consulting expertise augments the TIGERS® group development foundation dedicated to building collaborative strategic alliances and committed work team cultures with sustainable success.

Katherine founded Image M Consulting based on the principle of “good intent.” She offers classes, executive coaching, and facilitative training based on the premise of discovering individual and group dynamic strengths to develop teams of engaged organizational cultures. Coming from a background in behavioral and transformational coaching, Grady strives to uncover the behaviors that lead to success and behaviors that will ultimately lead to failure. She transforms positive team behaviors that are good to “great” and eradicates behaviors that are negative and culturally destructive to team morale and organizational productivity.

“I recognized a foundational need to be understood, communicate well, and interact with each other in a way that allows each of us to do our best work and be at our highest level of engagement every day. So often though, we don’t allow ourselves or others the opportunities to be at our best. Miscommunication and misunderstanding breed so many intricate levels of issues that affect a workforce, a team, a company, or a group,” explains Grady.

Katherine Grady strengthens her consulting business by adding the additional communication tools and resources provided through the TIGERS licensed facilitation training. She often faces challenges when working with teams who require other avenues of training, team facilitation, and coaching than currently exists in her own “toolbox.”

“I am very pleased to welcome Katherine Grady as a recognized TIGERS Facilitator. Her unique experience with pharmaceutical companies is an asset for the work we perform in reorganizations and mergers. As a veteran consultant in her own right, Katherine will be automatically upgraded to certified when our certification and licensing program is complete. In the meantime, we are looking forward to collaborating with Katherine and helping her take her business to the next level,” states founder, Dianne Crampton.

Grady recognizes that adding TIGERS state of the art team development resources to her consulting business was the next logical step to enhancing her cache of training and facilitation tools. She is often called upon to mediate newly forming teams, resolve team and organizational conflicts, and consult with individuals seeking to improve their working relationships.

During training, Katherine was instructed on how to use the TIGERS® Team Wheel™ game to teach behaviors that build strong teams, behaviors that will cause predictable problems, and bring teams in conflict to consensus quickly. She learned how to use the TIGERS Team Wheel exercise to help teams reach agreement on setting work behavior ground rules, consensus decision making, and to facilitate action planning for sustainable success. As a licensed facilitator and inner circle member she also receives:

• Opportunities to facilitate TIGERS team development events
• Revenue sharing opportunities
• Two years of business development support and team facilitation coaching 

TIGERS Success Series first launched team development and facilitation training for corporate trainers in January 2012. Katherine Grady, as an independent consultant, is one of 10 elite consulting business owners with a unique team development niche in the USA and Canada to be recognized as a licensed TIGERS facilitator.

About TIGERS® Success Series:
TIGERS® Success Series, Inc. is a team development consultancy that has served leaders and their teams since 1989. TIGERS® helps leaders build teams of employees that are as committed and engaged in the success of the organization as the leaders are. Besides expanding their licensed TIGERS facilitator program, TIGERS is also offering another course for corporate trainers on May 23. This course is only offered four times a year and closes to 15 participants. More information is available at http://www.corevalues.com/tigers-team-wheel-game-with-training,

About TIGERS Team Wheel facilitation:
The TIGERS Team Wheel™ facilitation has been used in socially responsible mergers, to build stakeholder teams and for launching large scale change initiatives by TIGERS Success Series for nearly 18 years. Its original launch was for a presentation to the National Institute of Applied Business Ethics in 1995.

The first corporate trainer coached to facilitate the TIGERS Team Wheel™ exercise was the head trainer of Northrop Grumman before initiating a large change initiative.

For additional Information: For additional information on the TIGERS licensed facilitation program or about TIGERS Success Series call Dianne Crampton at 1-541-385-7465 or visit the TIGERS® website at http://www.corevalues.com.

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TIGERS® Success Series Welcomes Newest Licensed TIGERS Facilitator to The Inner Circle

April 16, 2012

Bend, OR – Dianne Crampton, Founder of TIGERS® Success Series, announced today that Tony Lacertosa, owner of Peerless Leadership Development Consulting of Scarborough, ME, has passed the TIGERS licensing requirements to become a licensed TIGERS facilitator and a member of the TIGERS Success Series Inner Circle of consulting companies. Lacertosa brings 31 years of educational classroom leadership expertise to the TIGERS® group development arena, which is dedicated to building engaged and cooperative work team cultures and strategic alliances.

 

“Many teachers have low morale because of the sense that they work in a top down environment where they have little to say about what happens in the classroom though they are on the ones in the trenches on the frontline. The same holds true in business where many employees at every level of operation feel a disconnection with the company due to a management style that does not give them a sense that they are valued and well trained,” explains Lacertosa.

Tony Lacertosa, began his teaching career as a science instructor with the Smithtown, Long Island, NY school district. Most of his time was spent teaching science in the traditional high school but he spent a number of years teaching disengaged students in the district’s alternative high school. He successfully turned around students who were failing in traditional classroom settings and has seen firsthand what disengagement and tension produce in learning environments. With the resources and tools provided during TIGERS  licensing training, Lacertosa is now able to reinforce his commitment to reducing disconnections between school administrators, teachers, parents, students with challenging behaviors and communities in the national arena.

Small to mid-size business leaders also benefit from Lacertosa’s focus. Having worked successfully with “disengaged” students, he teaches managers and leaders how to gain commitment and accountability from employees who are struggling with communication breakdown and escalating resentments.

“We are very pleased that Tony has joined us as a licensed TIGERS Facilitator. He is a master at breaking down employee development into easy to learn steps that are easy to reinforce and measure. This sets Tony apart from so many other leadership trainers because his methods stick. I could not be more pleased to welcome Tony to the TIGERS  Tribe of recognized TIGERS facilitators,” says TIGERS founder, Dianne Crampton.

Tony acknowledges that adding TIGERS facilitation tools to his consulting business gives him state of the art team development resources that bring teams in conflict to consensus quickly. During training, Tony learned how to use the TIGERS Team Wheel™ exercise to teach behaviors that build strong teams and behaviors that will cause team breakdown. He then how to use the TIGERS Team Wheel™ exercise to help teams achieve consensus for work behavior ground rules and for decision making and to facilitate action planning for sustainable success. As a licensed facilitator and inner circle member he also receives:

• Opportunities to facilitate TIGERS Team Development Events
• Revenue sharing
• Two years of business development support and team facilitation coaching

TIGERS Success Series first launched team development and facilitation training for corporate trainers in January 2012. Lacertosa, as an independent consultant, is one of 10 elite consulting business owners with a unique team development niche in the USA and Canada to be recognized as a licensed TIGERS facilitator.  

 About TIGERS® Success Series: TIGERS® Success Series, Inc. is a team development consultancy that has served leaders and their teams since 1989. TIGERS® helps leaders build teams of employees that are as committed and engaged in the success of the organization as the leaders are. Besides expanding their licensed TIGERS facilitator program, TIGERS is also offering another course for corporate trainers on May 23. This course is only offered four times a year and closes to 15 participants. More information is available at http://www.corevalues.com/tigers-team-wheel-game-with-training .

About TIGERS Team Wheel facilitation: The TIGERS Team Wheel™ facilitation has been used in socially responsible mergers, to build stakeholder teams and for launching large scale change initiatives by TIGERS Success Series for nearly 18 years. Its original launch was for a presentation to the National Institute of Applied Business Ethics in 1995.

 The first corporate trainer coached to facilitate the TIGERS Team Wheel™ exercise was the head trainer of Northrop Grumman before initiating a large change initiative.

For additional Information: For additional information on the TIGERS licensed facilitation program or about TIGERS Success Series call Dianne Crampton at 1-541-385-7465 or visit the TIGERS® website at http://www.corevalues.com.

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Web Based Training Course Gives Organizational Trainers the Tools to “Engage” Employees and Build Successful, Productive Teams

February 10, 2012,

Bend,OR-TIGERS Success Series is launching web-based training for Project Managers and Human Resource professionals on how to use the TIGERS Team Wheel Game and Team Development Tool Kit for building highly cohesive, cooperative, engaged, and successful teams. Used over the past 23 years for significant corporate change efforts requiring high levels of employee commitment to improve workplace cooperation, training begins in March, 2012 with three additional courses during the year.

Founder of TIGERS Success Series, Dianne Crampton, conducted primary research on what employees need to succeed and thrive in the workplace. The findings were straightforward. Employees thrive in a workplace that resonates with respect, trust, cooperation, honest communication, civility, more team unity, loyalty, and understanding between people. What employees don’t want is backbiting, intolerance, inconsistency, lack of communication, and confusion over roles and responsibilities. The TIGERS Team Wheel game and team development tool kit helps HR professionals engage employees in championing positive team behaviors.

“Since the economic recovery in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, we learned that change efforts frequently fail if initiated by leaders and then projected onto employees. This is especially true if employees are disengaged, which according to recentGalluppolls show an alarming number of employees in the disengaged and actively disengaged category. ” said Crampton. “Taking what we learned in our merger work with Costco and change efforts with Boeing and Northrop Grumman using our proprietary TIGERS Team Wheel team development process to launch employee driven strategies, change occurred remarkably fast. One reason we have identified is that employee driven solutions, which improve how teams work together and communicate was championed by employees. This made it much easier for supervisors to manage.”

In conjunction with Crampton’s research, she has also authored or contributed to　three books on TIGERS Team Development methods. They are: The anthology Working Together (Barrett Koehler 2003), The 2010 Pfeiffer Consulting Annual (Pfeiffer and imprint of John Wiley and Sons), TIGERS Among Us – Winning Business Team Cultures and Why They Thrive (Three Creeks Publishing 2010).　

With dates set for the TIGERS Team Wheel™ facilitation training, participants may begin registering now for the March 8, May 23, September 5, or November 28 course. Each course consists of five 1 ½ hour sessions and are designed to implement common sense, easy to deploy solutions when building cohesive, successful teams quickly. The web-based courses will provide trainers with the tools to:

• Engage and empower employee endorsed behavior
• Teach behaviors that build teams
• Identify behaviors that weaken teams
• Strengthen an organization’s vision, mission, and core values by getting all employees on the same page
• Establish employee championed ground rules so there is less conflict and misunderstandings
• Bring existing employees up to speed on the company dynamic and culture
• Use the TIGERS Team Wheel effectively to screen new hires
• Implement cultural change in the workplace quickly and relatively “pain free.”

“The courses are live and recorded for reinforcement and play back. I am closing each course once they reach 15 attendees to ensure maximum discussion opportunity for participants, which seems to be a defect of other on-line trainings,” said Crampton. “We have a commitment to participant engagement, which is inherent in face to face training and we wanted to eliminate travel expenses and days away from work for participants by offering the web-based platform.”

The course is appropriate for internal trainers, team leaders, project managers and other HR department personnel. It is also appropriate for founding entrepreneurial teams and for volunteer coordinators of larger nonprofit agencies. Along with training, participants also receive the TIGERS Team Wheel game and tool kit and support materials for ongoing use and several bonus gifts that support the team development process.

Participants will also receive three bonus gifts to reinforce training:

• Copies of TIGERS Among Us-Winning Business Team Cultures and Why They Thrive
• 50% off coupon for additional books to reinforce training
• A one year TIGERS-Den Enterprise Level business membership for web-based team communication and conflict resolution training.

Dianne Crampton’s many accomplishments include working with organizations such as Costco, AT&T, and Boeing to achieve a workplace or project atmosphere of cooperation with sustainable success. Northrop-Grumman beta tested the game with highly successful results for a pending companywide reorganization. Merrill Lynch nominated Dianne for the western region Inc. Magazine Entrepreneurial awards where she received honorable mention for her successful work in group dynamics　and for her TIGERS Team Wheel™ group development game

Training courses are now open for enrollment by calling TIGERS® at 877-538-2822 or registering online. The fee for the complete five session training course, TIGERS Team Wheel™ Game, and bonus gifts is $1497.00. For organizations that have established, intact training departments, the TIGERS Team Wheel™ Game is also available without training for an investment of $997.00.

About TIGERS Success Series: TIGERS® Success Series, Inc. is a team development consultancy that has served leaders and their teams since 1989. TIGERS® helps leaders build teams of employees that are as committed and engaged in the success of the organization as the leaders are. Visit the TIGERS® website at http://www.corevalues.com

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Dianne Crampton 2011/2012 NAPW Professional Woman of the Year

A Change Agent for American Business

Bend, OR (1/11/2012) – Dianne Crampton, M.A.: Author, Consultant, Coach, Strategist and Speaker; is being honored as a 2011/2012 Professional Woman of the Year National Association of Professional Women, a prestigious distinction awarded by the 200,000-strong membership of NAPW.

Dianne Crampton’s visionary leadership in creating dynamic and empowering workplaces has fueled the explosive growth of her TIGERS Success Series as a popular and effective strategy for enhancing leadership and team-unification skills. For over two decades MS. Crampton has been the go-to team development expert for organizations of all sizes in all industries, helping them invigorate their corporate culture to find the core issues facing their teams and workforce environment that will best support their evolution to greatness.

Financial powerhouse Merrill Lunch found Ms. Crampton’s development of the TIGERS Team Wheel game that was first introduced to the National Institute of Applied Business Ethics to be of such crucial importance for correcting employee cooperation, engagement and retention that they nominated Ms. Crampton as Entrepreneur of the Year for the prestigious Inc. Magazine awards.

Ms. Crampton also shares her invaluable workplace strategies as a published author. TIGERS Among Us (Three Creeks Publishing 2010), outlines her six research-based principles of Trust, Interdependence, Genuineness, Empathy, Risk and Success that comprise her standard for achieving a thriving, successful and collaborative team culture.

Her most recent e-book, Mindset Mastery for Women Entrepreneurs, is available free at www.corevlaues.com, upon enrollment in her complimentary newsletter where she shares more TIGERS tips and strategies for developing outstandingly successful teams.

An in-demand speaker and educator, MS. Crampton has been a featured lecturer at leadership conferences and for the National Institute for Applied Business Ethics. She presents communication, conflict mitigation, and team coaching e-seminars through TIGERS Success Series as well as ongoing web-based training for employees of organizations enrolled in the TIGERS Enterprise Level membership program. Ms. Crampton has also served as adjunct faculty for four Pacific NW Universities.

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Website Upgrade for TIGERS Success Series Provides Quick Access to Robust Team Building Tools 

Bend, OR (10/7/2011) – Recent upgrades to the TIGERS Success Series website include a dynamic new look and additional team building resources. With expanded services and more robust website features, founder Dianne Crampton sets the standard for achieving a successful and collaborative team culture. Through team building activities and leadership team development, TIGERS Success Series provides the tools to improve morale, increase retention, and explore personal leadership growth.

A recent Interaction Associates survey states that employee trust in leaders is lagging and has not rebounded over the past year. Utilizing TIGERS proven leadership development tools, there is no reason why an organization should experience communication breakdown, escalating resentments, swarming office gossip, poor morale, or high turnover. For over 20 years, TIGERS® Success Series founder, Dianne Crampton, has helped organizations such as Costco, AT&T, and Boeing realize a workplace atmosphere of team member cooperation with overwhelming, sustainable success.

“Team leaders need to create an atmosphere of cooperation where everyone shares in the success of the company. You have individuals that withhold information, protect turf or compete against others for political advantage. Imagine what would happen if that energy were directed to seizing top market share! With the redesign of our website, organizations can find all the resource and leadership development tools they need to build a collaborative team environment,” says Dianne.

New updates and expanded resources on the TIGERS Success Series website include:

• Interactive Team building activities
• Cost effective team assessment
• Team training and coaching memberships
• Consulting and onsite facilitation services
• Customized events and retreats
• Web based team training courses
• Personalized mini-courses
• Self-scoring assessments for leadership development

Comprised of six research-based values: Trust, Interdependence, Genuineness, Empathy, Risk, and Success, these values reinforce an organization’s existing core values, mission, and goals. TIGERS® values are anchored by measurable behaviors that build high levels of collaboration and success in teams.

For more information on TIGERS Success Series visit the TIGERS® website at http://www.corevalues.com or call 877-538-2822.

About TIGERS Success Series: TIGERS® Success Series, Inc. is a team development consultancy that has served leaders and their teams since 1989. TIGERS® helps leaders build teams of employees that are as committed and engaged in the success of the organization as the leaders are.

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Bend, OR (12/15/09) – What makes a good company great? TIGERS Among Us: Winning Business Team Cultures And Why They Thrive, reveals what four successful companies have in common that makes them thrive in any economy.

Author and organizational leadership expert Dianne Crampton has spent 20 years studying and analyzing how businesses work. She has a proven track record of turning troubled companies and organizations around with six key team-building principles she calls TIGERS: Trust, Interdependence, Genuineness, Empathy, Risk, Success.

“I help remove obstacles so people from the loading dock to the CEO ‘s office can do their jobs well. The bottom line is, I ‘m a teacher. I love to help people succeed. TIGERS explains how I help leaders build teams where their employees care as much about the company as they do,” Crampton said.

Crampton was instrumental in the effective merger of warehouse club giant Price/Costco; she played a key role in the merger of Northwest Medstar, and her work with Native Americans was featured at a United Nations conference on cooperation and excellence in the workplace.

TIGERS Among Us takes a rare, in-depth look inside four cutting edge companies: Zappos.com, Dos Gringos, 4Refuel, and Tribe, Inc.

Crampton details how both large and small companies can create highly motivated workforces that are collaborative, team-focused and exemplify the TIGERS concepts. “While most companies are satisfied with a comfortable market share, these five organizations often achieve market superiority with roaring success,” she said.

After each company ‘s chapter, Crampton offers summary “action items” that businesses and organizations can use to brainstorm and help increase their own success.

“It ‘s no accident that these are highly successful companies. All five have remarkably happy and dedicated employees, from the boardroom to the break room and beyond. The TIGERS values are the key to building ethical, quality-focused, productive, motivated and enthusiastic groups of people inside and outside of the workplace,” Crampton said.

TIGERS Among Us will teach you:

• Why companies with individualistic cultures are out, and those with collaborative core values are in.
• Why the human desire to make a difference and is rarely tapped by traditional national and international business leaders.
• How companies can attract and retain happy, hardworking staffs, plus increase profits in a down economy.
• A step-by-step approach to assess your company, improve team culture, and become more productive and successful.

In TIGERS Among Us, Crampton examines the history and development of team culture in business, while providing a foundation for companies to assess and improve their own team cultures. The book ‘s rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes workings of five innovative companies in TIGERS Among Us will fascinate and inspire you.

About the Author:

Dianne Crampton founded the TIGERS model for teams in 1987. In 1990 she formed TIGERS Success Series (www.corevalues.com) to serve motivated leaders and teams looking for collaborative solutions to refine and improve their teamwork. Through consultation, surveys, games and other innovative techniques, Crampton teaches companies and organizations of all sizes how to evolve from good to great.

Crampton is a sought-after public speaker and featured presenter at national and international conferences. She has also served as adjunct faculty for four Pacific Northwest universities. Crampton has a B.A. in communications from Washington State University, a post-graduate degree in organizational leadership from Gonzaga University, and is a graduate of the Coach Training Alliance.

When she ‘s not helping executives, business leaders and entrepreneurs develop successful collaborative leadership skills, Crampton enjoys travel, gardening and hiking the beautiful high desert of Central Oregon where she lives with her husband and family.

TIGERS Among Us, 5 Winning Business Team Cultures And Why They Thrive

Three Creeks Publishing
Author: Dianne Crampton
ISBN: 978-0-615-23478-6
Trade Paperback, 184 pages
Size: 6 x 9
Price: $16.95
Publication Date: March 1, 2010

For more information, contact:
Sharon Cook
COOK PUBLIC RELATIONS
541-389-9344

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Contact: Bill Crampton
541-385-7465
intercom@uci.net

 

Local Consultant Contributes Chapter To Global Human Resources Consulting Book

Bend, OR (11/12/09) – An article by Bend management consultant and team-building specialist, Dianne Crampton, has been published in the global 2010 Pfeiffer Consulting Annual (John Wiley & Sons). For four decades, the Consulting Edition Pfeiffer Annual has provided thousands of trainers, consultants, educators, and managers with up-to-date information and tools to help make organizations more effective.

Crampton is the owner of Bend-based TIGERS Success Series. Her article, “Forming TIGERS-Hearted Teams,” discusses collaborative workplace cultures that pay attention to behaviors such as trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success (TIGERS). Crampton ‘s chapter in the 2010 Pfeiffer Consulting Annual discusses a leadership model that provides a foundation for team-building success. She shows in practical terms how businesses can quickly improve group harmony and, as a result, increase productivity.

In February 2007, the U.S. Small Business Administration reported that small businesses comprised of 500 or fewer employees are the largest employment segment in the country. They are the backbone of the U.S. economy. Yet many of these companies, some strikingly fast-growing, find themselves struggling with issues such as attracting talented team members and sustaining growth.  A survey conducted by TIGERS Success Series concluded that the number-one reason talented employees leave companies is because they will not accept a poor company culture or attitudes that violate values such as trust.

Dianne Crampton ‘s new book TIGERS Among Us: 5 Winning Business Team Cultures And Why will be released in March, 2010. Learn more.

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Contact:

Lee B. Salz
Business Expert Webinars
Chief Executive Officer
9784 Troy Lane, Minneapolis, MN 55311
763.416.4321
lsalz@BusinessExpertWebinars.com

Dianne Crampton Joins the Business Expert Webinars Speaker Team

February 19, 2009, Minneapolis, MN
- Business Expert Webinars (BEW), the leading provider of business eLearning, announced that Dianne Crampton, workplace productivity expert, has joined their speaker community.

“In today ‘s economy, companies are searching for ways to restore productivity following a workforce reduction. Dianne ‘s teachings help managers and leaders restore trust among the ”surviving” employees and regain a productive culture. Her teachings are invaluable to today ‘s companies and we look forward to her program,” said Lee B. Salz, President and CEO of Business Expert Webinars.

Dianne Crampton, contributing author of “Working Together,” said, “I could not be more pleased to be working with BEW, a world class provider of distance learning. Our goal is to offer valuable skills that will help stabilize companies during the economic downturn. We know the impact corporate trust plays on employee retention, collaboration and conflict resolution.
Problems in any one of these areas adversely effects productivity.”

Dianne begins delivering e-seminars with Business Expert Webinars in April 2009.

About Business Expert Webinars

Business Expert Webinars (BEW) is the leading provider of skill-based, business eLearning programs for business professionals. The BEW speakers are international business experts including best-selling authors, award-winning speakers, and business gurus. With over 750 webinars delivered by over 150 speakers, BEW can help any business professional improve their skills. For more information, visit BusinessExpertWebinars.com.

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December 2008

The TIGERS Team Core Values Survey will be available as a web-based application shortly. We will be posting an announcement in our monthly newsletter once this function is fully complete.

TIGERS will be providing a sample single survey for you to experience.

A team will be able to purchase the team survey and all team members will be able to participate through password encryption. What use to take a week to produce and deliver to you; will now be available within minutes of when your last team member completes the survey.

The TIGERS Team Survey and the TIGERS Team Wheel Facilitation tool, when used together, are powerful catalysts for helping your organization reduce team conflict and confusion in order to improve your team processes and culture. The net result for you is marked improvement in your team ‘s productivity and attitude.

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October 2008

TIGERS Success Series has been invited by Pfeiffer to provide content for the Pfeiffer Annuals, a publication of John Wiley and Sons. TIGERS manuscript, Building TIGERS Hearted Teams, will appear in the 2110 Annuals.

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