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Hello, StandOut friends! Welcome to the first StandOut release of the year, with a refreshed release experience coming your way! We’re making a shift to deliver releases now organized by theme . All updates, enhancements, and newly released content will align to a work-related topic, making it easier to understand and apply our updates in a cohesive and impactful way. Our goal is to help you drive positive change and empower your organizations with stronger, more intentional updates. The theme of our first release of the year, available on February 15th, is Career . Please read on to see all that we have planned! Curious to know what’s next for StandOut? Stay tuned for our next release--the theme will be Connection. The Near-Term Roadmap always has the latest details. 🚘 💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes: We’re pleased to introduce a new series on the StandOut Community called Real Stories, capturing the experiences of StandOut leaders, teams, and the organizations they serve. Check out how Sun Community is leveraging StandOut to craft meaningful careers here. ☀ A career or happiness--what would you choose? 😀 What employees want 🌱 Upskilling for career growth 🏫 Speaking of career growth, all 2025 StandOut public certification offerings are now posted here if you’re looking to enhance your knowledge and application of strengths. 💪 Will you be joining us at ADP's Meeting of the Minds 2025? If so, please look 👀 for a career-themed presentation from Standout’s Director of Leader Development, Crystal Simon: Career: Where Talent Meets Performance. 💫 Release Date: February 15, 2025 Please note that these release notes delineate the items launched on the date shown above. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Client Success Partner or customerservice@tmbc.com. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. Click on the links below to jump directly to a specific feature: Career Growth Research Career Position Paper New! StandOut Enterprise Content Subscription Equipped Animated Series Career Discovery Conversation Career-Themed Coaching Check-In Enhancement Assessment Updates StandOut Font Update Privacy Policy Update Research New resource! Career Growth Study Career growth is a highly individualized concept that can look like different things to different people, depending on your career path, goals, interests, and opportunities that are available to you, among other factors. In support of this career-themed release, we thought it would be helpful to first dig into what the term “ career ” really means and how leaders and HR practitioners can facilitate career development with their teams. To achieve this, the StandOut Research Team recently launched a data collection effort to learn what career growth means to workers, what people are looking for to grow in their careers, what motivates them, and the roles that strengths, team leader attention, and career advocacy play in the broader career landscape. With data analyzed from the perspectives of both the employees and an organization hoping to take action on the study’s results, the findings of this research serve as a call to action for leaders to recognize and appreciate the personal and individualized nature of each person’s career journey, while also highlighting the importance of examining personal needs and aspirations related to career development. Read the full study here! 🚀 Positions New resource! StandOut Position Paper: Careers We’re releasing a new Position Paper that captures StandOut’s research on career growth and all the ways that StandOut solutions and strengths coaching approach can help both organizations and individuals explore the topic of careers . Touching on the multiple ways people define career growth for themselves, this Position Paper will describe how StandOut’s strengths-based approach can serve as a powerful tool to help people clarify what matters most to them and how their strengths can help them succeed. Read the new Position Paper here! 📃 New StandOut Offering New! StandOut Enterprise Content Subscription We’re kicking off the first release of the year with a major offering: the brand-new enterprise StandOut Content Subscription , which offers clients a comprehensive suite of learning solutions, including instructor-led workshops, self-paced modules, video content, and more. This subscription will support clients in their efforts to bring a strengths-based culture to their organization through access to 4 key components: a growing library of content, StandOut Strengths technology, an exclusive online community, and service units that may be used throughout the year. ⭐ Content Library: Subscribers will gain access to our growing library of content that helps organizations scale support for people to develop their strengths and maximize their unique contributions. Subscription includes unlimited access to self-print materials and the right to leverage all content across your organization. The Content Library includes: Access to certifications and workshops (and workshop materials once certified): StandOut Debrief Certification StandOut Team Member StandOut Team Leader Coaching Essentials for Team Leaders New workshops coming in 2025! Access to digital self-paced content, including: Discover StandOut SCORM Equipped animated series (see more about this below) StandOut Strengths technology: grants users access to the StandOut platform, including the StandOut Assessment, Snapshot, Coaching Channel, and Team Activities. StandOut Online Community: Content Subscribers will be invited to participate in the exclusive Strengths Facilitator Community that provides opportunities for ongoing development and best practices sharing. Service Units: Subscribers will be allocated units to spend on program certifications, StandOut facilitated content, or content activation consulting hours throughout the year. If you’re interested in learning more about how to leverage this exciting new resource in your organization, please reach out to your Client Success partner. Content Subscribers New resource! Equipped Animated Series This all-new series of short, animated videos is a great asset for organizations looking to tackle the common challenges that arise in career development. Presenting a series of situations to prompt discussion, Equipped will get people thinking about careers through the lens of their strengths. Access to the series is available through the StandOut Content Subscription (see above), and the first 3 episodes will be available to stream on February 15th, with more to come. Don’t miss the teaser video below! 📺✂☕ Conversations Enhancement: Career Discovery Interactive Conversation To further support StandOut users in having strengths-based, meaningful conversations with their trusted leaders and coworkers, we’re pleased to introduce another new Interactive Conversation . This one is focused on Career Discovery , and it takes users through a series of prompts to explore what matters most in their career growth. Career Discovery Conversation The Career Discovery Conversation may be launched by anyone in the organization to reflect on their career growth with their team leader, colleague, or career advocate. Once the Conversation is launched with your intended recipient, you’ll both be invited to reflect on a series of questions. You’ll see an option to mark your responses as private if you’d like, otherwise both parties will be able to see each other’s entries. Once each party responds, you’ll be prompted to review the responses together during a live discussion, supported with a StandOut conversation guide. Whether you’re seeking personal career growth or looking to support others, we encourage you to give this a try to strengthen your future interactions. 💪 Career Discovery Conversation prompts Coaching Enhancement: Career-Themed Coaching The Career Coaching engagement (which includes three 60-minute sessions over six weeks) supports individuals who want to take a strengths-based approach to developing their careers. With this release, we’re making Career Coaching even more powerful with the addition of new career coaching tools to help people explore the strengths and values they want to focus on as they grow. Coachees will receive guidance and develop career strategies in a 1:1 partnership with a certified StandOut coach, using impactful new career coaching tools — Wheel of Work, Strengths Grid, & Values at Work — to explore the strengths and values they want to focus on as they grow. StandOut Assessment Enhancement: Assessment Updates We’ve made some changes to the StandOut Assessment experience based on input we’ve received directly from clients. These changes are intended to improve the overall Assessment accessibility and user experience, and include increasing the question timer from 30 to 45 seconds, options to take the Assessment without the timer feature, and removed voice-over options. 🔕 Check-Ins Enhancement: Open Text We’ve enhanced the open text fields within Check-Ins to allow for a better user experience. These fields, found within Loves, Loathes, Needs, and Priorities, will now auto expand for longer text entries, eliminating the need for users to scroll within their entry. 💬 StandOut Platform Enhancement: Font Update In an effort to maintain a consistent user experience across ADP products, we’ve recently updated the font used throughout the platform. It’s nothing major, but you may notice this subtle change.💐 StandOut Platform Enhancement: Privacy Policy Update We've updated StandOut’s Privacy Statement to satisfy new requirements to updated privacy laws. We continue to strive to make our information practices easy for you to understand and to clearly communicate the choices you have. We encourage you to review the updated Privacy Statement. By continuing to use our products and services, you acknowledge receipt and agree to the updated Privacy Statement effective January 31, 2025. Please direct any questions to customerservice@tmbc.com. Note: The English-language version of this policy was updated on January 14. Updates to all other languages policies will be updated on February 15.

The items listed below are tentative and intended for directional planning purposes. The details and assigned releases of each item are subject to change at any time. Release dates may also change as needed. Additionally, your organization may choose to keep items off until a later time; please work with your HR contact to understand when items will become available to you. April 12, 2025 Release 25.14 Theme — Connection 🤝 Research: The Power of Teammates Aside from the team leader, teammates are the people that team members interact with most frequently. This frequent interaction - and often collaboration - paves the way for relationships that can add to or detract from the overall experience at work. We're sharing our research focused on understanding the value and power of the relationships between teammates and how they shape the team member work experience. Position Paper: Connection We’re re-releasing our Connection Position Paper with updated research on the qualities that make a connection great and how team leaders and team members can foster this within their relationships. Cultivating Team Connections Workshop Employees who have strong connections with their coworkers and leaders are more likely to be fully engaged and less likely to leave an organization voluntarily. We're creating brand new content to help you cultivate powerful connections on your teams, including a new 90-minute workshop. Engagement Pulse Benchmark Data Engagement Pulse reporting will be updated with new benchmark data that includes 2024 results. Engagement Pulse User Experience Updates We're making a few minor changes to the Engagement Pulse to improve the user experience and pave the way for future enhancements that are in the works. July 12, 2025 Release 25.28 Theme — Attention ☀️ Research: Check-Ins in the Real World Of course, Check-Ins have already been heavily researched and proven to correlate strongly with engagement at work, and now additional efforts are underway to understand what this ritual looks like, feels like, and sounds like for current StandOut users. Using data collected via self-report questionnaires, focus groups, and interviews, we're further defining the perceived value of Check-Ins from the team leader and team member perspectives and identifying the characteristics of a meaningful Check-In conversation. Check-Ins: Editable Loves and Loathes Delivering on a request we've heard directly from clients, we're updating the Check-In experience to allow your teams to add/edit Loves & Loathes throughout the current Check-In week. With this update, we’ll set the Loves & Loathes section to be editable (just as the other sections of the Check-In are currently). If an update is made, a notification will be sent to the team leaders. Check-Ins: Private Notes for Team Leaders We’ve heard you! You want a refreshed Check-In experience, and specifically one that would enable taking notes to prepare for your Check-In conversations. Additionally, we recognize that dynamic and static team leaders have a need to collaborate on a Check-In and highlight the most urgent needs for the week. A new field will be added to the Check-In to enable this, and will only be visible to the static and dynamic team leaders of an individual. Check-Ins: Spotlight Questions We're freshening up the Check-In experience by adding a new and engaging optional question each week to trigger consistently meaningful conversations between your employees and their team leaders. StandOut Platform New Language Translations In addition to our existing platform translations options, we’re adding the following this cycle: English (UK, Australia, Canada), Dutch, Hindi, Romanian, Spanish (International, Mexico). Fall 2025 Release 25.XX Theme — Engagement ✨ Research: Trickle-Down Effects of Engagement Pulse Constructs In partnership with the ADP Research Institute, we're conducting research to better understand whether there is a correlation between engagement values of senior leaders within an organization and their full employee base. StandOut Foundations Content Subscribers will have access to new content and resources to support your organizations understanding and adoption of the foundational elements of StandOut. More to come soon! Engagement Pulse Intelligence We’re very excited to be combine the power of Engagement Groups and Coaching Intelligence in order to provide meaningful insights and guidance for team leaders! With this new feature, team leaders with a closed Engagement Pulse and 3 or more responders will see customized and actionable guidance on how to proceed with positively impacting their teams’ engagement levels.