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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Learning culture: Foster deliberate development across your company
Register now · June 14, 2022

A sense of growth is essential to employee satisfaction. Learn how People Ops leaders can create an effective learning culture.

What we'll cover:

  • Identify areas of opportunity
  • An action plan to determine the right learning strategy for your company
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Giving equitable and effective feedback
Register now · July 20, 2022

Learn to give and receive feedback across differences with diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging strategies.

What we'll cover:

  • How feedback relates to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
  • The effects of bias on feedback
  • Actionable tips on how to give equitable and effective feedback
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Feedback culture: Create effective feedback habits (at any distance)
Register now · August 24, 2022

Create a culture of effective feedback as companies adapt to new realities.

What we'll cover:

  • Role model giving and receiving feedback in a remote or hybrid workplace (even if the message is difficult)
  • Create systems that make feedback easy and frequent across your teams
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How to undermine bias and hire the best person for the job
Register now · 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
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Performance reviews: Enable performance, don’t manage it
Register now · 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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Interviewing skills: Create a better, more inclusive interview process
Register now · 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

Previous workshops

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How to collect demographic data with a DEIB lens
Fully booked · May 19, 2022

Get demographic right in 2020 with concrete diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies.

What we'll cover:

  • Why demographic data is important for DEIB efforts
  • Peoplism’s 4-step framework to guide demographic data collection decisions
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Hybrid readiness 2.0: Manage communication, connection & energy
Fully booked · April 07, 2022

Most of us are now experts in working remotely. But what considerations will 2022 and beyond bring for People Ops leaders?

What we'll cover:

  • Research, tips, and vocabulary to prepare your teams for the hybrid landscape
  • Distinct problems to know
  • Ways to create inclusive communication processes and meaningful connections.
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How to build an impactful DEIB strategy
Fully booked · March 03, 2022

Learn concrete diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies you can apply to create a workplace where all employees can belong.

What we'll cover:

  • Four components of an effective DEIB strategy and how to actually achieve them
  • Top strategy mistakes that prevent companies from making DEIB progress
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Inclusive leadership lab
Fully booked · October 05, 2021

Empower managers to leverage difference, make sure every voice is heard, and create a space where people can do their best work.

What we'll cover:

  • What makes inclusive leaders different
  • An assessment of your leadership culture
  • Micro-inclusion habits you can use today
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Career growth: Develop people faster
Fully booked · September 14, 2021

An important part of a People Ops role is ensure people are satisfied with their career development. Here's how you can do it.

What we'll cover:

  • Skills for your growth as a people advocate
  • Personal development challenges and fixes
  • Ideas and formats to deepen your org's growth culture

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