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Unlocking the Power of Skill-Building and Community Building: The Care/Of Case Study
Implementing manager training not only had a positive impact on employee retention, but it also created new relationships among the remote teams
4 tips to handle third-party feedback
We all know to beware of the drama triangle and the love triangle. But did you know the feedback triangle is equally dangerous? Here’s the right way to handle third-party feedback.
5 simple ways to reduce anxiety and increase resilience.
If you’ve been communicating with the outside world lately, you’ve likely noticed an increase in general fear and angst.
11 Questions to ask remote employees
Managing a remote team can be hard. These 11 questions make it instantly easier.
The 5 Pillars of Organizational Resilience
When an organization is able to rest steadily on all five, it is positioned to excel during periods of significant environmental change.
Super-learning: The little-known skill that makes all the difference
Outworking gave way to outsmarting and now things are shifting again. here’s a new skill that companies desperately need but most don’t even know about.
Building a Diverse & Inclusive Culture at Column Five Media
To bring its DEI vision to life, Column Five partnered with LifeLabs Learning to teach employees at all levels instantly applicable behaviors, while improving its hiring and onboarding practices. The results were clear, company-wide norms and a significant increase in applicant diversity.
2023 Trends & Prep for HR, People Ops, and L&D Leaders
We know 2023 will be full of surprises, but there are already four important workplace trends to anticipate.
Rethink your teams
The LifeLabs Learning research team combed through the literature on what makes great teams, analyzed findings from hundreds of conversations with team leaders, and conducted interviews with folks that were on high performing teams. What we found was both surprising and unlocks a tremendous amount of opportunity for the future of organizations. Enjoy!
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.
Skilling up GIPHY’s managers to increase effectiveness
To help managers skill up quickly, LifeLabs and GIPHY offered short, practical training, tailored to GIPHY’s unique culture. Managers expressed an increased capacity to provide and receive feedback, listen to their direct reports, and manage more effectively.
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.
Do your managers even have time to Manage?: Capacity planning for manager effectiveness
Has your company carved out sufficient time for your managers to actually do their jobs well?
Measuring Training Impact at Union Square Ventures
LifeLabs and USV trained managers across portfolio companies and saw significant impact 3 and 6 months later.
Core manager skills: Skills that make the biggest difference in the shortest time
Experience is simply not enough.
Growing fast with training at Greenhouse
To keep manager effectiveness high while growing fast, Greenhouse and LifeLabs used a combination of training, refreshers, and well-timed nudges to enable employees to solidify their learning through practice
Manager standards: The secret to accelerating manager excellence
Set a small number of behavioral ‘standards’ that all managers, including executives, commit to upholding.
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