FY22-Q4 L&D Newsletter

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Welcome to the last GitLab Learning & Development (L&D) Newsletter! The purpose of the L&D newsletter is to enable a culture of curiosity and continuous learning that prioritizes learning with a growth mindset for team members. We are currently evaluating how to give more frequent updates on what our team is working on.

You can find links to past L&D Newsletters.

Recap of Q3

• Crucial Conversations Cohort 2
• FY22-Q3 Mental Health Newsletter
• People Group Learning Hub in GitLab Learn
• [Development Learning Hub (https://gitlab.edcast.com/channel/gitlab-development-learning-hub) in GitLab Learn
• Improved mentorship documentation for team members
• 2nd iteraton of Women at GitLab mentorship program
• Completed the Fifth Iteration of the Manager Challenge, and over 20 Managers and Aspiring Managers completed the training!

Upcoming in Q4

• Crucial Conversations Cohort with the Security Team
• LifeLabs Learning Pilot (More Details to Come!)
• 3 Live Speaker Series - watch the team member calendar for invites!
  1. November: Discussing building internal culture with team members at Google
  2. November: Managing on a remote team
  3. December: Mental health awareness week speakers December 13th to 16th

Learning Spotlight

Crucial Conversations is a great way to kickstart your learning!

If you are interested in participating in Crucial Conversations in the future, please fill out this form. If you would like your team to go through the trianing together, please reach out to our team in the #learninganddevelopment Slack Channel.

Learning Tips

If you aren't sure where to start with learning, try out LinkedIn Learning. You can go to the website and search by skill or interest and it will bring up all related courses.

Some recommendations of where to find LinkedIn Learning courses:

• Skill of the Month Channel has a variety of different LinkedIn Learning courses broken up by topic
• Recommended LinkedIn Learning Courses Channel has courses your GitLab team members have taken and also top LinkedIn Learning courses in 2021
• Take a look at what we did for our Career Development Skill of the Month
• Use the LinkedIn Learning website to search for any courses that you may be interested in.
• The Announcements Channel in Edcast highlights some of the new LinkedIn Learning content that's added to the platform every week! Once you have taken a course, feel free to share it with your peers or in a slack channel with other GitLab Team Members!

Discussion

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