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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Career growth: Strategies to simplify and enhance employee development
Register now · October 17, 2023

Get the tools, frameworks, and experiments you can immediately use to deepen your career growth culture.

What we'll cover:

  • How to define and message 'career growth' at your organization

  • Framework to help employees navigate their own development

  • Pro-tips to grow your own career in People Operations

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High-impact goal setting: Create team goals that actually work
Register now · December 06, 2023

Discover research and tools that will help you and your teams set motivating and meaningful goals.

What we'll cover:

  • Tools to help teams avoid common goal-setting pitfalls
  • Techniques to drive accountability towards goals
  • Skills for helping teams handle rapidly-shifting situations

Previous workshops

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Productivity lab: How to help others do more with less
Fully booked · August 21, 2023

Improve company-wide productivity by making small changes with a big impact.

What we'll cover:

  • How to diagnose, analyze, and solve productivity challenges

  • Ideas from other People Ops leaders

  • Action plan to improve time awareness, prioritization, and organization

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Leading change: Brain-friendly change management strategies
Fully booked · 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
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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

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