With a background that spans multiple startups, innovation challenges, and bold risks (including both wins and failures), Terence shares a simple but transformative idea: everything you want in life is just 10 experiments away.

As you head into March, take heed of La’s message that progress isn’t about perfection or certainty, it’s about curiosity and courage.

Watch the TED Talk (15 mins) here!

After watching, consider:

• What small, low-stakes experiment could you try in your life this month?
• Where might you be waiting for “readiness” when acting first could offer clarity?
• How could treating your work as a series of experiments reduce pressure and open possibility?

Check out the LDE Book Club, a collection of self-directed courses that center on the teachings from great books. To help you explore what action and experimentation you can incorporate in your life, we’re highlighting a course for learning practical, research-backed strategies for turning intentions into consistent action, even when motivation dips.

• LDE Book Club: Getting It Done - As time goes on, our motivation dwindles. We get distracted or lose interest. The effort and sacrifice are too much. We give up our goals because we can’t sustain that inner fire or spark that incited us to pursue them in the first place. What would you do or accomplish if you could stay motivated? In this course, you’ll learn her proven methods for changing your circumstances and mindset to maximize self-motivation.

We invite you to use this self-paced Workday Learning course and discussion templates to start your own book club, as well as borrow the book (Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation by Ayelet Fishbach) from the LDE Lending Library.

Check out these three LinkedIn Learning courses that will help you take action and define exactly how you should be working towards your goals.

• Holding Yourself Accountable - Being accountable is more than just being responsible for something—it's also being answerable for your actions. To hold yourself accountable, you must find the motivation to do difficult things. In this course, personal branding expert Dorie Clark helps you adopt the accountability mindset.
• Making Big Goals Achievable - Long-term success is the result of setting big, meaningful goals and breaking them down into small, daily actions. In this course, productive leadership expert Dave Crenshaw shares a proven seven-step process and detailed planning worksheet anyone can use to make goal achievement a part of their daily agenda.
• Effortless: Make It Easy to Do What Matters (Book Bite) - Does getting ahead and achieving our goals have to be as hard as we make it? Tune into this audiobook summary to learn five key insights from the book Effortless: Make It Easy to Do What Matters.

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

Management Essentials (In-Person Weekly Series)
March 5, 2026 - April 30, 2026 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Classes will meet on: March 5, March 12, March 19, April 16, April 23, and April 30
This program is designed to provide a baseline of important information and skills for managers to become highly effective leaders and to successfully promote and lead engaged, connected, and productive work teams in today's work environment. Please note: Registration closes 10 business days prior to the first session to ensure participants have enough time to complete the required prework.

Staff Essentials (In-Person)
March 24, 2026 & March 31, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Staff Essentials Program provides foundational knowledge and practical skills to help non-supervisory staff thrive in today’s dynamic work environment. 

This month, we’re highlighting four books that may help you take more action towards your goals and do more productive experimentation this month:

• Good Decisions Equal Success: Stop Decision Anxiety and Start Taking Action by Kandis Porter and Damon Lembi: Renowned business leaders Kandis Porter and Damon Lembi unpack how to make better decisions more quickly with greater confidence. They clearly describe decision-making roles and common pitfalls, then outline a process to help guide you.
• The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Deliver Better Results Faster by George B. Bradt: A critical resource for leaders in any industry, this book walks you through your first days, weeks, and months in any new leadership role, when stakes are high and time is of the essence.
• 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman: The author clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives.
• Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick by Wendy Wood: Wendy Wood draws on three decades of original research to explain the fascinating science of how we form habits, and offers the key to unlocking our habitual mind in order to make the changes we seek.

Visit our virtual LDE Lending Library to check out these books, or to find others that will help support your month of action-taking.

March invites us to experiment, take risks, and try new ways of working—and that means navigating change with confidence. Mastering Change Management - Building Resilience is a curated collection of resources that aims to help you build the resilience and adaptability needed to turn uncertainty into opportunity.

In this course, you’ll learn practical tools to move from reacting to change to actively shaping it. Explore how to assess shifting situations, test new approaches, and apply small, strategic adjustments that build momentum. You’ll also learn core principles of communication, collaboration, and mindset shifts that help you stay grounded while taking bold action. If you’re ready to experiment more effectively this month, this collection may assist you with doing so with clarity and resilience.

Leverage these self-paced courses to find some new ideas for experimentation this month, as well as glean some direction for what actions you should take.

• LDE Next Level: Take Control of Your Future - Career Development - In this course, you’ll learn how to map your career development plan, track progress with your manager, and add value to your role.
• LDE Next Level: Supporting Career Growth at Brown - This course comprises four separate lessons about maximizing career growth at Brown University:
  • A Manager's Role in Career Development
  • Getting to Know Employee's Strengths, Interests, and Values
  • Improving Employees' Job Satisfaction to Increase Motivation
  • How to Conduct Effective One-on-Ones

Pick one small work task this week and run a 10% experiment on it. A 10% experiment is a tiny, low-risk tweak, small enough to try quickly, but big enough to have a noticeable impact that you can learn from. For example:

• Change how you open a meeting
• Test a different way to organize your day or track your tasks

Afterward, ask yourself: What worked? What didn’t? What might I adjust next time?

By experimenting in small increments, you’ll build confidence, learn faster, and make continuous improvement part of your daily rhythm.