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Senti Bio: Building Unity and Resilience Through Growth with LifeLabs Learning
Here's how Senti Biosciences helped employees strengthen connections, foster inclusivity, and embrace change during a period of rapid growth.
Startup Success: Memora Health Uses Live Learning to Build a Manager Support Toolkit
Here's how Memora Health significantly improved manager engagement, expanded its L&D capacity and fostered a supportive, inclusive learning environment.
Small L&D Team, Big Results: CertifID Scales Manager Training & Develops Culture of Learning
Here's how CertifID transformed its management practices, fostering a culture of learning and development that supports the company’s rapid growth.
Laying the Foundation: MoPOP's Skill-Building Journey to Strong Leadership
Here's how MoPOP boosted their leaders' performance, aligned them with the organization's mission and goals, and created a positive culture of collaboration and communication.
Manager selection (part 2): Sample interview process & prompts
We’re sharing some of our favorite pro tips for hiring managers.
Manager selection (part 1): How to interview, assess, and select great managers
It is essential to assess candidates using a reliable interview process.
Stop making everyone a manager: How to avoid the poor-fit pitfall
A manager role isn’t the more “advanced” version of an independent contributor role.
Core manager skills: Skills that make the biggest difference in the shortest time
Experience is simply not enough.
Measuring manager effectiveness: How to evaluate and accelerate manager success
The need for effective managers has shifted from nice-to-have to really, absolutely, definitely must-have.
Manager job description: A surprising driver of organizational success
Companies must rely on their managers now more than ever. Improving role clarity yields a massive ROI.
What is a manager, anyway?: Great management starts with role clarity
Given how essential it is for managers to be effective in today’s world, offering managers greater role clarity is a small investment with a big payoff.
When Good Managers Go Bad: Why and how to fix it
Leaders at nearly every company we’ve served believe that managers matter, but few believe that their managers are highly effective.
The “career ladder” is broken. Here’s how to develop your employees instead.
Career growth is about so much more than a promotion... but do your employees see it that way?
Your performance reviews should support career development. Here's how.
Here’s how to integrate development into your performance reviews.
Before you can create a true feedback culture, you need to distribute power
How to create psychological safety in the workplace
Stop managing performance and start enabling success
A world beyond performance management
3 Change-management hacks for people-managers
3 quick ways to bring certainty to your team in an uncertain work environment.
5 Attributes of bad company values and how to change them
5 things to check to make your company values more effective.
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