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DiSC Communication Styles: How Tech Teams Stop Talking Past Each Other

Learn how DiSC communication styles help tech teams reduce miscommunication, resolve conflict faster, and build trust across engineering and leadership.

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How to Run a QBR Meeting Agenda That Actually Ends With Decisions

Most QBR meetings end informed but undecided. Unicorn Labs' 5-section QBR meeting agenda—Honest Recap, Gap Analysis, Priority Reset, Decision Table, and Action Plan—forces every quarterly review to close with named owners and a 90-day action plan. The Decision Table is the section most teams skip.

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How We Run Better Meetings | The Accountability System That Works

Our team meetings used to be a mess. Here's the exact weekly meeting system and playbook that fixed our follow-through problem for good.

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The Manager Gap: Why Promoting Top Performers Breaks Culture

Gallup: 82% of companies choose the wrong management candidate, and managers drive 70% of engagement variance. Unicorn Labs explains why promoting top performers without a new manager training program tanks culture—and presents a dual career track model covering EQ, job redefinition, and peer support.

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The Conflict Resolution Workshop Agenda Your Team Actually Needs (With Scripts)

Unicorn Labs' 6-part conflict resolution workshop runs 3 to 3.5 hours for 6 to 30 people. Covers the Conflict Continuum mindset shift, Thomas-Kilmann conflict styles, Kim Scott's SBI feedback scripts, de-escalation language, and Pixar's Braintrust—with role-play scenarios and a Conflict Principles doc.

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How to Spot the Wrong Manager Before It’s Too Late

Promoting the wrong person can quietly destroy company culture. This post breaks down the early signs of a bad manager, the cost of poor management, and how to assess leadership skills before a promotion, so you can avoid micromanagement, favoritism, and high turnover before it’s too late.

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7 Strategies to Improve Employee Performance Reviews

Discover seven actionable strategies to transform employee performance reviews into meaningful opportunities for growth, engagement, and alignment with organizational goals, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and development.

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Top Five Management Challenges and How to Overcome Them

This blog explores the top five challenges managers face—like communication breakdowns, workload balancing, and conflict resolution—and offers actionable strategies to turn these obstacles into opportunities for building stronger, more engaged teams.

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Signs of a Great Manager: Qualities and Skills to Look For

This blog breaks down the key traits that make a great manager, from strong communication and emotional intelligence to fostering trust, inclusivity, and employee growth.

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First Day as a Manager: Success Tips and Common Mistakes

Starting as a first-time manager can be both exciting and daunting. This guide offers essential tips for building rapport, avoiding common pitfalls, and establishing a solid foundation to lead effectively from day one.

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How to Build an Effective People Strategy: A Guide to Aligning HR with Business Goals

An effective people strategy aligns HR initiatives with business goals, fostering a supportive culture where employees thrive. This guide covers essential steps—from talent management to fostering inclusion—to build a people-first approach that drives engagement and long-term business success.

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Skills for Successful Executive Assistant Training

Discover the key skills, training pathways, and strategies for thriving as an executive assistant and advancing your career to new heights.

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HR Manager Interview Questions with Sample Answers

Hiring the right HR manager is crucial for organizational success. This blog covers key interview questions and strategies to help both job seekers and recruiters navigate the interview process with confidence and identify top HR talent.

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Strategic Interview Questions

Unlock the potential of your hiring process with strategic interview questions that go beyond basic qualifications. This guide provides practical tips to assess candidates' cultural fit, decision-making skills, and long-term potential, ensuring you make smarter, more informed hiring decisions.

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How to Conduct Soft Skills Training

Enhancing employee performance goes beyond technical expertise; it requires cultivating essential soft skills. In our guide, "How to Conduct Soft Skills Training: Enhancing Employee Performance," we explore the significance of soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, adaptability, and problem-solving. By implementing practical strategies and leveraging valuable resources, you can elevate your team’s effectiveness, foster a positive organizational culture, and achieve substantial returns on investment. Discover how prioritizing soft skills training can transform your workforce and drive your organization towards success.

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The 8 Best Corporate Retreats Near New York City

Not every professional skill is learned in the office. Sift through these best corporate retreats near New York City to build skills and team camaraderie.

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Why New Manager Training Is Essential to Your Company

New manager training can turn first-time managers into full-fledged leaders. Find out how management training can improve company performance.

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The 2 Most Difficult Management Challenges To Overcome

Management challenges arise every day, but learning how to deal with them isn't always simple. Discover ways to solve these problems.

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The Signs of a Good Manager

Managers can feel self-doubt, even when they're on the right track. Look within yourself for the signs of a good manager. You might be on the right track.

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Fast Track New Manager Training With the New Manager Program Playbook

In a startup or growing company, new manager training is essential to success. Use the Unicorn Labs New Manager Program Playbook to get your team up to speed.

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Guidelines for Better Remote Work Management

Managing distributed teams can feel like a thankless and tiresome pursuit. Use these guidelines to improve your remote work management skills.

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How To Implement a Great Management Training Program

Find out how management training programs can take novice managers and turn them into leaders in this article.

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How To Master One on One Meetings

One on one meetings provide an opportunity to share feedback, exchange ideas, and more. Discover how to get the most out of these interactions.

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There's No 'I' in Burnout

Burnout is an organisational issue. The solutions will be too.

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6 Proven Ways To Increase Employee Engagement

Engaged employees are more productive and a vital key to success. Find out how to increase employee engagement and build high-performing teams

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Lattice vs Culture Amp: A Breakdown of the Best and Worst Features

Lattice vs Culture Amp - it's a choice that many HR managers need to make. Find out which option is the best for your business.

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10 Management Courses Every Manager Should Take

Management courses can enhance your knowledge of management principles and enhance your leadership skills. Find out more about the courses you should take.

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Performance Management Templates for Effective Reviews

Performance management templates can streamline your employee review process. Find out how to use them with a few tips and template examples.

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Time Management for Managers: Tips, Tools, Advice, and More

Time management for managers is essential for streamlined operations and leadership. Use this guide to master the art.

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11 Interpersonal Skills for Managers You Need To Master

Mastering interpersonal skills for managers is crucial to workplace success. Discover what they are and how to use them effectively.

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Manager Feedback Examples and How To Use Them to Get an Edge

Manager feedback is a crucial way to become a better manager and leader. Use these examples as a tool to handle real-time feedback.

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How To Build High Performance Management at Your Business

High performance management is a technique that's been proven successful. Learn how it can help your team reach its full potential.

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6 Tips for Attracting Top Talent

Attracting top talent in the modern age is more than just perks and compensation. Uncover the ways that you can get the best talent for the job in your company.

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Executive Retreats

Executive retreats can help management and execs create better plans for the future. Find out how they can help your organization and how to plan them.

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How To Deal With Difficult Employees

Some employees aren't easy to work with, but can still bring value to your business. Deal with difficult employees with a few of these proactive tips.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Engineering Manager Training

Need to turn a junior engineer into a manager? Use this engineering manager training to transform the analytical mind of an engineer into a natural leader.

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The New Manager Checklist You Never Knew You Needed

Want to become a great manager? Make the transition from employee to fearless leader with this new manager checklist for employees and employers.

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Campus Recruiting: How To Find Fresh Talent for Your Business

If you want to find fresh talent, go to the source. Find out how a campus recruiting plan can save you money and time and identify future leaders.

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Conflict at Work Examples and the Best Ways to Handle Them

Conflict at work is a certainty that all managers must deal with. Use these conflict at work examples to recognize issues and become a better leader.

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Your Ultimate Guide to Understanding What it Means to Be a Manager

People are usually promoted until a level of incompetency, but that doesn't have to be the case. Unicorn Labs breaks down what it means to be a manager.

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Learning to Manage Takes Time: How to Overcome Fears as A New Manager

Being a new manager can be scary. We all have fears and worries, but at Unicorn Labs, we want to make sure we help you overcome them with the right tools

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How to Set Day-to-Day Roles and Responsibilities for New Managers

Managers are the bridge between senior levels and employees, that's why they need to have clear day-to-day responsibilities

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How to use the Three “P’s” of Effective Management

We’ll introduce you to the three Ps of effective management, provide insight into how you can manage them better, and show how the culture at your startup plays a role in this concept.

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6 Ways to Improve Retention and Why Directors with HR Skills are Becoming Essential Amid Great Resignation

The Great Depression is not something you should fear, as long as you have the right HR skills in your team

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5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself As a New Manager

When landing a new leadership role we are full of questions or perhaps even imposter syndrome. Here are five questions you should ask yourself as a new manager.

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People Management Tips for First-Time Managers

People management is important as a first time manager. It is the process of training, motivating and directing employees to optimize workplace productivity and promote professional growth.

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Bad Bosses Are Destroying Employee Happiness: new data shows

Good leadership is important now more than ever. Unicorn Labs breaks down what makes employees unhappy based on new data.

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How to Help your Managers Have Insightful Career Developments Conversations With Employees

From a culture of development to unpacking the famous one-on-one and the coaching conversations your managers should be having with every employee.

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How to Use Unicorn Labs' Feedback Principles at your Startup

Feedback is a necessary tool for any leader who believes in growth, cares about improvement and wants a high-performing team. In this blog, you'll learn about Unicorn Lab's Feedback Principles.

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A Manager’s Guide to Cultivate Accountability and Effective Feedback at any Startup

A high performing team requires members who get work done effectively and efficiently. But how? With accountability and feedback. In this blog, Unicorn Labs explains how managers can achieve both.

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10 Best Online Tools and Resources to Help Startups be Successful in 2022

As a manager, this time of the year is your chance to use people's motivation to set new individual and team goals.

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Learn How to be a Collaborative Leader

A leader can help to produce extraordinary results. Read Unicorn Lab's latest blog on how to be a collaborative leader.

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Leadership Programs Helps Startups Meet New Challenges

Leadership training creates an opportunity for organizations to reach new heights. Read our blog on how leadership programs help startups to meet challenges.

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5 Tips for Managers on How To Hold A Great Meeting

Meetings are important to boost employees’ productivity and efficiency. Read the blog to know a few tips for managers on how they should hold a great meeting.

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Reinventing Your Hiring: How a Solid Recruitment Process Increases your Impact

Unicorn Labs breaks down the team-building cycle and how a solid recruitment process from attracting to hiring and onboarding can help you build a high-performing team

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Two Types of Workplace Conflict and How to Deal with Them

Your team will often face two types of conflict in the workplace, here's how to deal with them.

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How Managers Can Become Great Leaders: The Future of Leadership

This article gives you actionable advice on how you can leverage your management skills to become a great leader.

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The Importance and Benefits of Conflict Management

Managers need to accept the importance of conflict in the workplace and learn how to benefit from effective conflict management.

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Case Study: How Unicorn Labs Can Transform Your Startup

This article describes how Unicorn labs helps transforms managers into leaders of unstoppable teams.

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The Top 5 Skills Every Manager Needs to Resolve Conflict

These are the top five skills every manager needs to successfully resolve conflict in the workplace.

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Leadership Guide: Everything First Time Managers Need to Know

New to management? Check out this ultimate guide with expert tips for fist time managers.

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Six Steps to Engaging and Leading The Team You Inherited

These six steps will help you engage and lead the team you inherited.

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Step-by-Step: How to Use OKRs to Become a Great Manager

Your step-by-step guide to using OKRs to become a better manager.

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5 Tools and Strategies for Enhanced Decision-Making

These are the tools and strategies you need to enhance your decision-making skills.

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Ultimate Glossary of Terms Every Manager Must Know

The ultimate glossary of terms every new manager must know to succeed.

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25 Resources to Help New Managers be Successful in 2021

25 Resources to help new managers succeed.

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Actionable Ways to Invest in the Development of Your Team Without Offering Them a Management Position

These are actionable ways to invest in your team's development without offering them a management position.

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The Right Way to Fire Someone

This your guide for the right way to fire someone.

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How to Deal with Difficult Employees as a New Manager

Here's what you need to know about how to deal with difficult employees as a new manager.

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4 Employee Personality Types: Understanding and Managing Different Personalities in the Workplace

These are the four different personality types and what you need to about understanding and managing different personalities in the workplace.

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A Manager's Guide to Improving Emotional Intelligence at Work

Improve your EQ with, 'A Manager's Guide to Improving Emotional Intelligence at Work.'

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What’s the Adaptability Quotient and Why is it Important?

Adaptability quotient is a person's ability to respond to change and it's the best way to predict success at work.

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No More Excuses: Your Ultimate Guide to Remote Team Management

New to remote management? Use this ultimate guide to remote team management to help get you started.

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How to Lead Through Conflict in Virtual Teams

Every team faces conflict, even virtual ones. This is how to lead through conflict in virtual teams.

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Your Ultimate Guide To Hosting a Productive Employee Performance Review Remotely

This ultimate guide includes everything you need to know to host a productive employee performance review remotely.

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Lessons Learned from Companies Who Have Been Working Remotely

Learn from companies who have been working remotely for years to help your team smoothly transition to online work.

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Master Your Priorities So You Always Feel Ahead

Want to reduce the stress and improve your time management skills? Start by mastering your priorities.

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How to Become an Unfireable Manager

Want to become unstoppable?? ... Or at least unfireable? Learn what skills you can use to transform yourself from a mediocre manager to an exceptional leader.

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