Workplace Core Program
Create a shared foundation for working toward common goals and performing consistently
Workplace Core builds shared habits around feedback, communication, and growth, so teams align faster, collaborate more effectively, and operate with greater consistency.
Challenges Workplace Core Addresses
When core workplace skills vary across teams, performance varies with them.
Lack of a feedback culture
When feedback varies in quality or frequency, expectations become unclear and growth slows. Workplace Core helps employees build consistent feedback habits that improve clarity and performance.
Ownership for personal growth is unclear
Without clear ownership, development can feel reactive or deprioritized. This program helps employees take a more active role in their growth, building skills that support long-term contribution.
Teams struggle to stay aligned through change
As priorities shift, ways of working can become inconsistent across teams. Workplace Core helps employees stay adaptable, align on expectations, and maintain consistency as work evolves.
Lack of foundational workplace skills
When core skills vary across teams, work gets inconsistent. Feedback is uneven, expectations aren’t clear, and performance suffers. Workplace Core builds shared habits so people approach their work with more consistency and clarity.
Communication gaps slow work down
Miscommunication leads to rework, delays, and frustration across teams. In this program, employees learn how to express ideas clearly, share feedback effectively, and keep work moving without unnecessary back-and-forth.
Change fatigue and lack of resilience
The skills that shape how work gets done every day
Workplace Core builds the habits employees rely on to communicate, collaborate, and grow. Each workshop builds on the last, helping individuals create clarity, stay resilient through change, and take ownership of their development.
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Feedback
High-quality feedback is at the heart of an organization’s ability to grow, adapt, and improve. However, many managers avoid giving feedback because it makes them uncomfortable, or they give feedback that leaves their direct reports feeling frustrated and confused. The good news is: research reveals that there are simple steps managers can take to immediately and dramatically improve the quality of their feedback. In this workshop, participants will learn the science behind effective feedback, and practice giving feedback that is specific, actionable, and inspiring, even in tough situations and even when working remotely.
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Influential Communication
Employees are usually hungry to make a greater impact on their organization and gain support for their ideas. Even individuals who have leadership roles prefer leaning on their influence rather than their authority to achieve results. But influence seems like such an abstract skill that most people don’t know how to start building it. When we think about earning influence, we tend to envision projecting confidence or becoming more persuasive – skills that take years to master. Instead, we can become more influential immediately just by changing the quality of our questions. The result? A questions-first culture in which employees are eager to hear one another’s perspectives and empowered to pursue their ideas proactively.
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Adaptivity & Resilience
When things are uncertain, many people freeze, make wrong decisions, or feel overwhelmed. In this workshop, you will practice techniques to stay calm, clearminded, and adaptive even when things are quickly changing. Skills include how to diagnose and optimize your default style under stress, how to make good decisions (even when information is confusing or limited), and how to create structure when things feel unstructured. You will leave feeling more capable and prepared for whatever comes your way.
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Career Growth
Innovative, fast-growing organizations are constantly changing. This organizational reality means that there are rarely predictable “career ladders” to climb. Instead, career growth is more like rock climbing. It requires employees to collect a variety of skills and experiences and drive their development without expecting their manager to tell them how to grow. In this workshop, we teach the three things that research shows makes the biggest difference for individuals who successfully grow their careers: they understand their own strengths, they cultivate a diverse network, and they proactively build their skills.
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Skills Lab
Skills Lab is a capstone experience that reinforces learning. Held at the end of every program, this live, facilitator-led session gives learners dedicated time to practice and apply skills in real-world scenarios.
Sample Workplace Core Learning Journey
Tailored to your organization
Adapted to team culture and experience, and internal frameworks and priorities, for relevant, easy-to-apply learning.
Flexible session lengths
Offered as 60-, 90-, or 120-minute workshops that fit into real schedules and match learner audience needs.
Multiple delivery formats
Available virtually, in-person, or hybrid, so your team learns in the environment they already work in.
Spaced learning for structure
Includes 4 workshops and 1 Skills Lab, spaced 2 weeks apart to support application and build lasting habits.
Expert Facilitators
Built for behavior change, led by experts who make it happen
Are your teams building the core skills needed for an AI-changing workplace?
As AI reshapes roles and workflows, employees need stronger core skills to stay effective. Workplace Core helps individuals communicate clearly, give and receive feedback on AI-assisted work, adapt to change, and take ownership of their development. The result is a more capable, adaptable workforce that can grow alongside AI.
Customer Success Stories
500,000+
people trained at the most innovative companies worldwide
95%
of participants said that the workshop they took was useful
99%
of participants said the training was still having a positive impact on their performance after 6 months
“I loved doing the Manager Core programming with just our employees. It helped with attendance rates and gave the team relatable examples to work through.”
Prathima Kathiresan
MD of People Operations, City Teaching Alliance
“Through their interactive and relevant workshops (led by knowledgeable and credible instructors), LifeLabs helped transform our young management team to true company leaders who are now dynamic enough to thrive within a competitive atmosphere.”
Sarah Lavorgna
VP of People/SixPoint
“By investing in manager development, you can increase your colleagues’ capacity and work capacity just by increasing the skills of the manager. If you can help that point of leverage in every point of the organization, you have a pretty powerful effect.”
Jordan Cohen
CPO, Lumanity
“LifeLabs Learning has been instrumental in helping us scale our L&D program. Previously, we only offered a single training course for new managers, but with their support, we’ve expanded to offer multiple, targeted training sessions for managers at all levels. This growth has enabled us to more effectively develop and support our leaders, ensuring that they have the skills needed to excel in their roles and drive success across the organization.”
Angelina Bourne
Employee Engagement Manager, Ruggable
“LifeLabs hands-on and research-based curriculum has been foundational for upgrading our capabilities as leaders and managers, helping us increase output and create better environments for our fellow co-workers. There is a clear inflection point in my team’s results and my career since taking training courses with LifeLabs.”
William Ting
Engineering Manager/Reddit
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FAQs
What is the Workplace Core program?
Workplace Core is a behavior-focused training program that helps employees build the foundational skills that shape how work gets done every day. It focuses on feedback, communication, adaptability, and career growth, turning these skills into consistent habits so teams collaborate more effectively and perform more consistently.
Who is this program for?
Workplace Core is designed for individual contributors and teams who want to improve how they communicate, collaborate, and grow in their roles. It’s especially valuable for organizations looking to create more consistent ways of working across teams. Including managers and leaders helps reinforce these habits and create alignment across the organization.
Why are these workshops delivered in this order?
The sequence is designed to build everyday habits that improve how teams work together. Feedback comes first to create clarity and shared expectations. Influential Communication builds on that by helping ideas, concerns, and decisions move more effectively across teams. Adaptivity & Resilience helps employees stay steady and constructive as priorities shift. Career Growth builds on this foundation by helping individuals take ownership of their development. Skills Labs provide practice and reinforcement, helping these behaviors stick in day-to-day work.
How can we customize the Workplace Core program?
Workplace Core is designed to flex around your team’s needs. The program includes four workshops, each available in 60-, 90-, or 120-minute formats, so you can choose what fits your schedule. We also adapt each session based on experience level, whether you’re supporting individual contributors or more senior employees. To make the learning feel even more relevant, we can incorporate your internal frameworks, examples, and language. Our goal is to make the experience feel like it was built for your team, so the skills are easier to apply right away.
What organizational challenges does Workplace Core address?
Workplace Core helps organizations where core workplace skills vary across teams, leading to inconsistent performance. It addresses challenges like avoided or inconsistent feedback, communication gaps that create rework, and change fatigue that impacts engagement. It also helps employees take more ownership of their growth, reducing stagnation and improving overall contribution.
What business outcomes can we expect?
Organizations see more consistent communication, clearer feedback, and reduced misalignment across teams. Employees contribute more effectively, adapt more easily to change, and take greater ownership of their development. The result is stronger engagement, improved collaboration, and more consistent performance across the organization.
What is a Skills Lab?
Skills Lab is a high-impact reinforcement experience held at the end of the program. It’s designed to help participants build confidence and apply new skills to real work through group coaching, reflection, practice activities, and facilitated discussion. Instead of introducing new concepts, Skills Lab focuses on applying what’s been learned in real-world scenarios, so behaviors become consistent and easier to use day-to-day. Workplace Core includes one Skills Lab.
What level of support do we receive during the program?
You’ll have support across the full experience, from shaping the program to reinforcing the learning after it ends. We partner with you upfront to align on goals and design the right approach, handle scheduling and communications behind the scenes, and stay closely involved during delivery to keep everything running smoothly. After the workshops, we continue to provide reinforcement so that new skills become consistent, everyday habits.