Discover Your Natural Talents: An Introduction to CliftonStrengths (Virtual)
Thursday, December 11, 2025 | 10:00 - 12:00 PM

Join us for a session introducing CliftonStrengths, a tool that helps you discover and leverage your top talents for personal and professional growth. You’ll learn how focusing on strengths can boost your effectiveness, improve teamwork, and maximize your potential.

In times of challenge and change, how we respond to failure can shape our growth more than the failure itself. In his powerful TED Talk, How Failure Cultivates Resilience, psychologist Raphael Rose explores how encountering and working through failure isn’t just inevitable, it’s essential.

As you reflect on 2025, this talk offers a timely reminder that progress often emerges from discomfort. It encourages a mindset shift from avoiding failure to learning through it, and offers practical insights on how to turn challenges into catalysts for long-term growth.

Watch the TED Talk (13 mins) here!

After watching, consider:

• What’s one failure or setback from this year that taught you something valuable?
• How did you grow, adapt, or shift your mindset as a result?

This month’s featured title explores how to look inward to cultivate success:

• LDE Book Club: Harnessing the Chatter in Our Minds for Good – In his book Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It, Ethan Kross explores how introspection can harm us. Engaging with our inner thoughts in times of distress can interfere with decision-making, undermine our performance, and negatively impact relationships. 

As always, you can use our self-paced Workday Learning course and discussion templates to start your own book club, as well as borrow the book from the LDE Lending Library.

LinkedIn Learning offers self-paced learning that can help you reflect and build resilience. This December, explore:

• Facing Challenges with Gratitude and Forgiveness – Live a life filled with less stress, greater well-being, and enhanced productivity by learning how to make powerful changes.
• Boost Resilience with Mindfulness – Enhance your ability to navigate the workday using mindfulness techniques.
• One-Minute Habits for Resilience – Learn resilience through a well-organized menu of simple exercises you can use to strengthen your resilience.

To access more LinkedIn Learning courses, go to Workday Learning, select Search for Available Learning, and filter by LinkedIn Learning under Content Type.

This month, we invite you to explore books that focus on gratitude, renewal, and purposeful growth.

• "Bounce!: Failure, Resiliency, and Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success" by Barry J. Moltz – Explores how to build a business that can “bounce” through these cycles for long-term success.
• "Wired to Grow" by Britt Andreatta – The author details how to unlock the fullest expression of who people are, giving you the keys to understand the neuroscience of learning and apply your natural wiring to positively transform lives, habits and organizations.
• “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck – Introduces a phenomenon called the “false growth mindset” and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset.
• “How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be” by Katy Milkman – Shares strategic methods for identifying and overcoming common barriers to change, such as impulsivity, procrastination, and forgetfulness.

Visit our virtual LDE Lending Library to explore and check out these titles or others.

Check out our thematically organized LDE Essentials resources. Each month, we hand-pick professional development tools and insights to help you grow and navigate challenges at work and in life. This month’s feature, “Mastering Change Management: Building Resilience,” focuses on strengthening resilience in yourself and your team as you navigate change.

Bolster your resilience with this self-paced course designed to help you manage stress and be resilient amidst change:

• LDE Next Level: The Basics of Managing Stress - Do you often feel overwhelmed and exhausted? We all deal with stressful situations at times, but chronic stress is damaging. Keeping stress under control helps maintain your energy, motivation, and health. In this course, you’ll learn the basics of managing stress. First, you’ll discover what stress is and how your body responds to it. Then, you’ll learn common stress triggers and how to manage them.
• LDE Next Level: Coping With Workplace Change - In this course, you’ll explore five common reactions to change and identify your emotions. From there, you’ll learn four strategies to embrace change, roll with the punches, and focus on the things within your control. While you can’t always predict or prevent change, you can manage your response.  

As 2025 comes to a close, take a few intentional minutes to reflect, appreciate, and reset. This simple three-step practice can help you close the year with clarity and purpose:

1. 🪞Reflect. Write down one accomplishment you’re proud of and one lesson you’ve learned this year.
2. 🌟 Appreciate. Send a quick note, message, or verbal thank-you to a colleague who made a difference for you.
3. 🧭Intend. Choose one intention for how you’d like to show up in this last month of the year, something simple and actionable like “listen with focus,” “share appreciation often,” or “speak with confidence.”

Even a short pause for reflection and gratitude can renew your energy, strengthen connections, and set a hopeful tone for the year ahead. Take some time for yourself!