Elevate

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• Overview
• What is Elevate
• Time Commitment
• Enrollment

Overview

Leadership development is one of the key L&D priorities and also a People Group OKR. To enable our continued growth at scale, we need to equip our people leaders with the needed skills to lead all-remote teams in a globally dispersed organization.

The handbook provides guidance on GitLab leadership competencies and principles. Bringing these practices to life requires training and practice. To provide an opportunity for each people leader to learn to lead effectively at GitLab, we are launching a new leadership development program called Elevate.

What is Elevate

Elevate is a highly interactive, all virtual program where you will learn with each other, and from each other. The goal is to provide a common, well understood leadership framework which demonstrates GitLab values, leadership competencies, and mission.

In the Elevate program, you will:

• Learn what it means to lead at GitLab
• Practice the Manager & Leadership competencies
• Apply what you are learning into practice via an action learning project
• Build cross-functional relationships with your coaching cohort members
• Demonstrate leadership competency by completing Elevate Leadership Certification

Time Commitment

Participants are expected to spend a total of 3-4 hours per month participating in the following learning activities:

• Attend one instructor lead learning session and learn the critical concepts each month for 6 months (50 minutes per month).
• Following each lesson, complete self-paced learning such as videos, reading, journaling and quizzes (45 minutes per month).
• Participate in your 15-member, cross functional group coaching cohort to practice that month’s concepts (80 minutes per month).
• Complete an action learning group project which demonstrates the impact of your leadership (30 minutes per month).
• Provide robust feedback on the program to help us iterate on the content and delivery.

Enrollment

We plan to launch the Elevate program for a pilot group in FY23-Q4 and then roll out the program for all GitLab people managers throughout FY24.