Virtual workshop series

Empowering your people,
from any distance

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Small Improvements has teamed up with LifeLabs Learning and Peoplism on a monthly learning series for HR and People Ops professionals. Hands-on, virtual, and free of charge.

Each month, we’ll focus on one tipping point skill that will have a visible impact on your work – and your people. You're guaranteed to come away with at least one small improvement you can recommend to managers and employees in your org.

Upcoming workshops

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Leading change: Brain-friendly change management strategies
Register now · June 08, 2023

Discover science-backed strategies to help companies and employees adapt, accept, and commit to change.

What we'll cover:

  • Key skills to lead and reinforce change initiatives
  • Practice your change messaging skills
  • A strategic change checklist you can use in any situation

Previous workshops

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Strategic thinking: Improve decision making company-wide
Fully booked · May 09, 2023

Build vocabulary and skills to improve decision-making across your organization.

What we'll cover:

  • Asking the right questions to improve the quality of other people’s thinking
  • Diagnose strategic thinking issues across the company
  • The skills to earn a seat at decision-making tables
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Performance reviews: Optimize your process to enable (not manage) performance
Fully booked · April 06, 2023

Learn how you can quickly and painlessly improve your company's performance assessment process.

What we'll cover:

  • The science behind how to best enable performance (hint: don't manage it!)
  • Best practices from a wide range of companies
  • A framework to assess the quality of your own reviews
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Ask me anything: Live DEI AMA webinar
Fully booked · March 15, 2023

Bring your diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging questions to a live dialogue with expert consultants.

What we'll cover:

  • Get expert answers on all your most pressing DEIB questions

  • Collect evidence-based insights from DEIB pros

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Interviewing skills: Create a better, more inclusive interview process
Fully booked · December 06, 2022

Want to hire the right people? Learn how to build a great interview process and become a better interviewer.

What we'll cover:

  • Interview techniques proven to increase the likelihood of making a great hire
  • Reducing bias during the interview process
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Performance reviews: Enable performance, don’t manage it
Fully booked · October 06, 2022

Learn how to best enable performance and improve your performance review process.

What we'll cover:

  • The myths and the science behind how to best enable performance
  • Best practices from a wide range of companies
  • A framework to measure the quality of your reviews and a list of new ideas to implement
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How to undermine bias and hire the best person for the job
Fully booked · September 08, 2022

Learn to mitigate bias and bring in the best person for the job with concrete diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging strategies.

What we'll cover:

  • The role and importance of DEIB best practices in hiring
  • Common flaws in typical interviews
  • Four steps for using structured interviews to effectively mitigate bias

Feedback from participants

“Great hosting/facilitating and engagement from all participants.”

“What you can improve? Ironically for a feedback themed session, nothing springs to mind!”

"I like the worksheets to take away. I share these within the company."

Why you should join

Refreshing and scientific
Workshops are short (1 hour) and packed with research that appeals to data-driven minds.

Tipping point skills
All skills are not created equal. Discover the smallest behavior changes that make the biggest impact.

Interactive and hands-on
Break down a skill into its most useful components, then apply it to something you are working on NOW.

Stay up to date on our workshops

It's virtual! All you need is a computer with
a camera and an internet connection.

And again, it's free! So there's nothing
to lose and a lot to gain.

Meet the organizers

Sharing a passion for positive change through simplicity.

LifeLabs provides training to companies worldwide, in person and virtually. We research the skills that make the biggest difference at work and home and convert them into workshops, events, and experiences. Learn more

Peoplism is an impact-driven DEIB consulting firm that helps organizations build more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplaces. With interventions that target the root causes and provide evidence-based solutions. Learn more

Small Improvements is an ongoing performance management platform that helps employees grow and succeed. Geared towards the needs of SMBs, it’s a highly configurable and intuitive tool. Learn more