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When we look at change in the workplace, it can often be challenging to navigate. As a leader, there are ways to guide your team in an empowering and empathetic way. Join us for this special panel-style conversation on Grow Kind Leadership in times of uncertainty.Want training for your team? Get in touch with us to find out which learning experiences are right for your team.[Music by Blue Dot Sessions]

In this week’s episode of The LeaderLab, we continue our discussion about how leaders can play an active role in helping their teams and people through periods of growth in the kindest way possible. We invite Annie-Rose London, a Facilitator at LifeLabs Learning, to explain how leaders can harness the power of easy focus to quickly create space for their teams to think, feel, and connect by using the "I could talk abouts" primer.Want to help your organization grow kind? Get in touch with us to find out which learning experiences are right for your team.[Music by Blue Dot Sessions]

In this week’s episode of The LeaderLab, we continue our discussion about how leaders can play an active role in helping their teams and people through periods of growth in the kindest way possible. We invite Rachel Glick, Director of Consulting & Team Enablement at LifeLabs Learning, to explain how leaders can take a look beneath the surface of their team’s data to uncover the inputs contributing to performance outcomes using a Data Diiiive (and no, that’s not a typo — find out what the four I’s stand for by listening to the full episode). Want to help your organization grow kind? Get in touch with us to find out which learning experiences are right for your team.[Music by Blue Dot Sessions]

In this week’s episode of The LeaderLab, we continue our discussion about how leaders can play an active role in helping their teams and people through periods of growth in the kindest way possible. We invite Massella Dukuly, Director of Team Enablement at LifeLabs Learning, to explain why using vision statements is one of the best ways to get people on board with, and even excited about, change. Want to help your organization grow kind? Get in touch with us to find out which learning experiences are right for your team.[Music by Blue Dot Sessions]

Now that we’ve learned what it takes to grow kind from a systems level, it’s time to get a little more granular. In this series, we'll discuss how leaders can play an active role in helping their teams and people through periods of growth in the kindest way possible. In this episode of The LeaderLab, we invite Victoria Chen,  Facilitation Lead and Leadership Trainer, to demonstrate how leaders can use reasoning questions to create perspective and promote productive dialogue by understanding the ‘why’ behind somebody’s ‘what’. Want to help your organization grow kind? Get in touch with us to find out which learning experiences are right for your team.[Music by Blue Dot Sessions]

We're taking a tiny break to Grow Kind and bring you new and exciting content on August 1st! 

When we look at growth from a systems level, it’s essential that we intentionally consider the people that growth will impact the most. In this special episode of The LeaderLab, we welcome back a few incredible guests from our systems-level Grow Kind series to discuss how the ‘grow kind’ mission came to be at LifeLabs Learning, what we’ve learned about growing kind so far, and what companies can do to grow in a way that benefits the business while still being people-centered, empowering, and energizing. Want to help your organization grow kind? Get in touch with us to find out which learning experiences are right for your team.[Music by Blue Dot Sessions]

As your company grows, how do you maintain its purpose, mission, and values across teams at scale? Joie Lim, LifeLabs Learning’s Impact Lead, joins The LeaderLab this week to talk about how leaders can protect an org’s ethos by reinforcing the behaviors that align with the company’s ideal identity.Want to help your organization grow kind? Get in touch with us to find out which learning experiences are right for your team.

How can you ensure the systems and practices that are scaling alongside your business stay as inclusive and anti-biased as possible? This week, Vanessa is joined by Ashley Schwedt, LifeLabs Learning’s Director of IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-bias), to discuss one of her favorite tools: a DEI checklist for systems that we refer to as the FAIR framework. Want to help your organization grow kind? Get in touch with us to find out which learning experiences are right for your team.

How does your company convert information into knowledge that’s accessible org-wide? The LeaderLab invites Brian Dann, certified Knowledge Manager, and Katya Davydova, author and leadership facilitator, to share the 4D Model of Knowledge Management. Brian, Katya, and Vanessa discuss how this tool helps companies organize, socialize, and deepen their knowledge base at scale even during times of rapid growth. Want to help your organization grow kind? Get in touch with us to find out which learning experiences are right for your team. [Music by Blue Dot Sessions]

Is your company intentionally and accurately prioritizing the needs of the business? The LeaderLab invites Robyn Long, LifeLabs Learning’s Chief of Staff and Business Operations Strategist, to share one of her favorite calibration tools with our listeners: the Business Priority Score (BPS) system. Robyn and Vanessa discuss how this tool helps companies grow sustainably as they scale by clarifying company-wide goals and taking action on the highest-priority projects first.   Want to help your organization grow kind? Get in touch with us to find out which learning experiences are right for your team. [Music by Blue Dot Sessions]

The LeaderLab Podcast is BACK for a brand new season! To kick things off, The LeaderLab invites listeners into an intimate conversation with LifeLabs Learning’s new CEO, Priscila Bala. Vanessa and Priscila’s conversation spans both the personal and organizational as the two discuss the journey of change leadership and the vision we’ve identified to shape the company’s evolution as we enter a phase of intentional hypergrowth: growing kind. Want to help your organization grow kind? Get in touch with us to find out which learning experiences are right for your team. [Music by Blue Dot Sessions]

Our mission at LifeLabs Learning is to help people master life’s most useful skills — and since we spend half of our lives at work, we like to think of the workplace as a practice lab for these skills. In this season's final episode, LifeLabs Learning Co-CEOs LeeAnn Renninger and Tania Luna share LifeLabs' origin story, and how we’ve navigated the extraordinary changes the last two years presented, all while growing the business, supporting other organizations, and distilling what we’ve learned into our new book: The Leader Lab: CORE Skills to Become a Great Manager, Faster. Wanna dig deeper? Get your copy of The Leader Lab: CORE Skills to Become a Great Manager, Faster anywhere books are sold.  

SuperInfluencers are wildly impactful. In this special episode of the LeaderLab, we invite our guests back into the lab to share more about the pivotal skills SuperInflueners use to catalyze outcomes in their organizations.

Do you ever feel like your ideas aren't taken seriously? Or that it's hard to feel a sense of progress or accomplishment? Learn how SuperInfluencers use the gap analysis to strategize about what gets done and how to measure if it's been successful.Wanna dig a bit deeper? Check out the research referenced in this episode:Dorie Clark, "If strategy is so important, why don't we make time for it?" Harvard Business Review, June 21, 2018Nathan Wiita and Orla Leonard, "How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap", November 23, 2017

Feeling stuck or noticing others getting in their own way? Learn how SuperInfluencers use the transformative Need-Forward skill to create positivity and progress for themselves and others.Our guest Grace Pfisterer is also a Leadership Coach and works with clients to explore the outcomes they most deeply desire, identify what's getting in the way, and drive intentional action to make those outcomes a reality. She's currently pursuing her coaching certification through Co-Active Training Institute. Wanna dig a little deeper? Check out the research referenced in this episode:Sigal, Barsad C., et al. "Emotional contagion in organizational life." Research in Organizational Behavior 38: (2018) pp.137-151Chermahini, Soghra Akbari & Hommel, Bernhard. "Creative Mood Swings: Divergent and Convergent Thinking Affect Mood in Opposite Ways" Psychological Research 76 (5): pp 634-40 

We often go into conflicts trying to persuade others to see things our way, which can lead to tension or even resentment. Learn what SuperInfluencers do differently to transform conflicts into fruitful conversations.Wanna dig a little deeper? Check out the research referenced in this episode. Bowen, Jenny. "Bowen Family Systems Theory and Practice: Illustration and Critique." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy v20 n2 (1999): 94-103 Jacques, Fred J. "The Role of Self-differentiation in Predicting Emotional Intelligence and Leadership" Int. J. Work Organisation and Emotion, v1 n 4 (2006): 379-398

SuperInfluencers are able to impact the behaviors of others without relying on authority. Learn one often overlooked SuperInfluencer skill in this episode.Wanna dig a little deeper? Check out the research referenced in this week's episode.  Roghanized, M. Mahdi, and Vanessa K. Bohns. "Ask in Person: You're Less Persuasive Than You Think Over Email." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 69 (2017): 223-226.Bohns, Vanessa K. “(Mis)understanding Our Influence Over Others: A Review of the Underestimation-of-Compliance Effect.” Current Directions in Psychological Science 25, no.2 (2016): 119-123.---

Cultivating SuperLeaders is integral to an organization’s success, but how does it happen? Listen to this special episode of The LeaderLab where we invite our SuperLeader guests back into the lab for a deeper dive into this very important topic.

When defensiveness shows up, conversations shut down. Learn the SuperLeader skill that will help you connect instead.Want to dig a little deeper? Check out the research our guest referenced in the episode:Joshua Hart, The Psychology of Defensiveness Victor Florian & Mario Mikulincer, The anxiety-buffering function of close relationships: Evidence that relationship commitment acts as a terror management mechanism