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If you’ve been communicating with the outside world lately, you’ve likely noticed an increase in general fear and angst.

Managing a remote team can be hard. These 11 questions make it instantly easier.

When an organization is able to rest steadily on all five, it is positioned to excel during periods of significant environmental change.

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.

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.

We know 2023 will be full of surprises, but there are already four important workplace trends to anticipate.

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!

We’re sharing some of our favorite pro tips for hiring managers.

It is essential to assess candidates using a reliable interview process.

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.

A manager role isn’t the more “advanced” version of an independent contributor role.

Has your company carved out sufficient time for your managers to actually do their jobs well?

LifeLabs and USV trained managers across portfolio companies and saw significant impact 3 and 6 months later.

Experience is simply not enough.

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

Set a small number of behavioral ‘standards’ that all managers, including executives, commit to upholding.

Vox and LifeLabs helped establish an inclusive culture by weaving bias awareness and behaviors of inclusion into all manager training.