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From YouTube: Manager Challenge Pilot Launch Video

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Our Manager Challenge Pilot will be kicking off in September 2020. Josh Zimmerman, Learning & Development Partner, and Jacie Bandur, Learning & Development Generalist, introduce the program in this video.

To learn more about our Manager Challenge Pilot, visit our handbook page: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/learning-and-development/manager-challenge/

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Hi everyone- this is josh, zimmerman your l d partner here at get lab. Thank you for volunteering to take part in the upcoming pilot manager challenge program, which is starting next week. This is your kickoff video for the upcoming challenge, we're thrilled that you'll be joining us over the next four weeks.

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We realize this will be a big time commitment and we thank you for joining us for the pilot next week, we'll be officially starting challenges and we wanted to send a quick message to remind you of all the tasks and activities coming up, but first things. First, why are we here?

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One in the spring of 2020, the l d team completed a comprehensive learning needs analysis. A common theme through our interviews with varying people leaders, was the need for a manager enablement program to lead remote teams. Two gitlab has not done a formal management and leadership enablement program in the past. This will really be the first of its kind. This will be an opportunity to iterate on the program, so we can roll one out organization. Wide.

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Three managers are the pillar of a high performing organization like get lab. I think we've all heard the same people do not leave companies, they leave their managers, so we hope that this will be an opportunity to build and strengthen skills that you can apply right out of the gate.

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Next, I'm going to hand it over to jc for more details on what to expect see you all next week.

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Thanks josh hi, I'm jc, bander learning and development generalist here at gitlab. What you can expect during the four weeks of this program are monday through wednesday, we'll post a message in the manager challenge: pilot slack channel as well as tagging participants in the days challenge issue to send you an email notification.

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So what you'll do is open. The issue read through the challenge, prompt and complete the activities, make sure to share your thoughts and on the material in the issue, and that's how you receive credit for the days challenge. Every thursday we'll come together as a group for a one hour live learning session on the different challenge topics. These will be interactive sessions on a range of different topics and we'll hold two sessions every thursday to accommodate for different schedules and time zones, and then every friday we'll send out a weekly evaluation and self-evaluation exercise.

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Please take time to complete this.

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Your feedback is really valuable to us, making iterations to this program and rolling it out in the future, and then what you can expect after the challenge once you've completed all of the daily challenges and tasks you'll receive a gitlab manager challenge certificate that you can display on your linkedin or other social media profiles, and then, after that, we also ask that you become an advocate for future implementations of this manager challenge and be a voice for just different manager, managerial and leadership programs that we roll out in the future.

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We are so excited for this program to launch and we hope you are too if you have any questions before or after the launch date. Please use the manager challenge pilot slack channel to ask any questions and we look forward to getting started very soon.