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Management Skills: How to Give Constructive Feedback in the Workplace
Take a deep dive into how to give effective feedback! We’re sharing examples of great feedback and steps that can immediately help you deliver any difficult message well.
3 Steps to Maintain Organizational Ethos and Build Resilience
In this part of our Organizational Resilience blog series, learn how maintaining your mission, vision, and values is essential to achieve objectives, retain talent, and keep employees engaged amid hardship or change.
Empower Your Workforce with LifeLabs Learning's New Membership Featuring Live Workshops
Limitless access to live virtual workshops, not video recordings, sets the new LifeLabs Learning Membership apart from other on-demand learning products on the market.
Focus on Tipping Point Skills Makes LifeLabs Learning 55th Fastest-Growing Education Company in America on the 2023 Inc. 5000
LifeLabs Learning experienced a three-year revenue growth of 193 percent by spreading the skills that catalyze a rapid increase in employee performance and engagement.
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.
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