Elevate+ Participant Hub
Welcome to Elevate+
This handbook page will serve as your Elevate+ homebase. Here, you’ll find important links, session descriptions, and resources for each module.
Quick Links
Navigate to frequently used links for Elevate+ below:
Need Help?
Get help in your cohort Slack channel. Find links to each channel below:
Live Session Best Practices
The goal of this program is to create a shared leadership development experience for all GitLab leaders, and to ensure that each participant has the skills and capabilities they need to be an exceptional leader at GitLab. Elevate+ objectives are rooted in GitLab values, leadership competencies, and mission.
Making the most out of Elevate+:
- 📸Keep your camera on
- 🧑💻While we understand that multitasking is a way of working at GitLab, we notice that those who are fully - present contribute the most, and get the most from this program
- 🙋Be brave, ask questions, and share your perspectives
- 💬Use this session guide and our synchronous GitLab shared space to learn from each other
- 🤔Stay curious and open to learning
- 💃Have fun!
Certification
Elevate+ concludes with an oral certification to demonstrate your mastery of leadership competencies. Please review this handbook page for a detailed outline of the certification process.
Module 1: My Leadership Identity
My Leadership Identity is the starting point for Elevate+. Live sessions and intersession work will focus on building your self awareness, executive presence, and intentionality behind your behavior and impact on your team’s results.
During Module 1, you will:
- Understand and explain who you are as a leader and the impact you have on others
- Understand the difference between leading a team and leading leaders
- Discuss the GitLab values and how we can lead to bring our values to life as leaders
- Consider what it takes to be a leader others want to follow
- Explore unconscious bias – mine and how to manage my org’s
- Review what’s next in the Elevate+ path
Key Links
Module 2: Leading to Empower
During Module 2, you will:
- Explore why it is so important to develop your team members
- Reflect on how position power shows up in your relationships and leadership
- Align on why coaching is so important, what a foundational coaching model looks like, and key coaching frameworks to utilize
- Learn best practices for creating a Culture of Feedback
- Revisit the resources at GitLab for support with managing underperformance
Resources
Position Power
Key Links
Module 3
In Module 3, create a shared understanding around the importance for your team members to understand how they each contribute to driving results for customers by:
- Learn from each other about GitLab’s core product, revenue streams, and customers
- Understand why this knowledge is critical for leading to empower and leading for results
- Provide tools, language, and resources for you to lead a conversation with your team members
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Module 4
In Module 4, increase your cross-functional effectiveness in order to clear the way for your team to get results.
- Share your team’s highest order purpose and alignment to GitLab’s overall goals
- Map your cross-functional partners within and outside GitLab
- Learn skills for building and repairing relationships with key partners
Key Links
Module 5
More information to be added soon.
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