The LDE Book Club is a collection of self-directed courses, where participants can dive into the insights of renowned authors as they discuss their works. As we explore what deeper learning looks like, this month’s LDE Book Club featured course turns our attention to one of the most powerful, and often overlooked, learning tools we have: listening.

• The Science of Effective Learning - Kate Murphy reveals what research increasingly shows: listening is not a passive act. It is an active, intellectual, and emotional skill that shapes our relationships, our understanding, and our ability to learn from one another.

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.

This month, we’re highlighting three LinkedIn Learning courses that support this month’s theme of deeper learning: cultivating curiosity, embracing active reflection, and turning learning into a daily practice.

• How Getting Curious Helps You Achieve Everything – Curiosity is one of the most powerful drivers of progress, and in this course, Diana Kander shows you how to harness it with purpose. Adapted from the podcast, How to Be Awesome at Your Job, this course explores why curiosity unlocks blind spots, accelerates learning, and leads to better decisions.
• Developing a Learning Mindset in the Age of AI – In a rapidly evolving world, having a learning mindset isn’t optional - it’s foundational. Instructor Gary Bolles offers a blueprint for becoming a more adaptive, motivated, and self-directed learner.
• Nano Tips for Making Learning a Practice with Dr. Jazz – Short on time? These bite-sized videos help you build meaningful learning habits, even on your busiest days. Dr. Jazz offers ultra-practical strategies you can apply immediately.

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

Learn from great authors to dive deeper in your learning. Consider adding these titles to your reading for this month:

• The New Social Learning: Connect. Collaborate. Work. by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner: The authors persuasively make the case for using social media to encourage knowledge transfer and real-time learning in a connected and engaging way.
• Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide by Lisa M. Baumgartner and Sharan B. Merriam: Baumgartner and Merriam integrate foundational research and current knowledge to present fresh, original perspectives on teaching and learning in adulthood.
• Learning to Engage: A Guide to Leaderful Practice by Joseph A. Raelin: This book advises readers on how any professional or manager can inaugurate and sustain collaborative leadership using practice-based education and development.
• Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive by Bradley R. Staats: Behavioral scientist and operations expert Bradley R. Staats describes the principles and practices that comprise dynamic learning and outlines a framework to help you become more effective as a lifelong learner.

Visit our virtual LDE Lending Library to check out these books, or find others that pique your interest.

As we continue our focus on deeper learning, this month’s featured LDE Essentials collection centers on a skill that directly strengthens how we learn from others: the ability to engage thoughtfully, openly, and respectfully in conversation. Constructive Dialogue and Respectful Discourse will help you explore practicing active listening, asking questions that deepen understanding rather than end the conversation, and more. Whether in team meetings, one-on-one conversations, or cross-departmental work, these skills reinforce the heart of deeper learning: connecting with others in ways that help ideas take root.

Leverage these self-paced courses explore how you can use February to engage more intentionally with ideas and people.

• LDE Next Level: Master the Art of Verbal Communication - We communicate verbally every day—but how often do we pause to consider how we’re communicating? This course explores the foundations of effective spoken communication, from active listening to clarity of expression to building connection through conversation.
• LDE Next Level: Effective Feedback Strategies - Giving and receiving feedback is one of the most powerful ways we learn at work. This course helps you develop a more reflective, thoughtful approach to feedback—one grounded in curiosity, clarity, and care.

Take a minute each day to notice one small thing that stood out, like a conversation, an idea, or a moment at work. Ask yourself: What did I notice? Why does it matter? What can I do differently next time?

Deeper learning happens when you pause, pay attention, and connect what you notice to your day. Little reflections like this add up fast.