Hello, StandOut friends! 🦋
We’re excited to introduce a set of enhancements and offerings designed to help organizations deepen their strengths-based culture, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and bring more consistency to meaningful weekly conversations. This release focuses on activating strengths in everyday work—from Check-Ins to leadership impact—through new learning, tools, and advisory support. Read on to explore what’s new!
💪🏼 Other fun strengths news for you this cycle includes:
Release Date: July 10, 2026
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.
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Efficacy of Strengths-based Coaching
Leader Effectiveness Consulting
Strengths Foundations eLearning Update
Research
New resource! Efficacy of Strengths-based Coaching
Coaching is a proven catalyst for performance, leadership, and career growth. When grounded in a strengths-based approach, that impact deepens—by focusing on what individuals naturally do best and channeling development through their unique StandOut Roles.
Over the past five years, StandOut researchers have built a rich body of evidence on the potential, experience, and lasting impact of strengths-based coaching. Combining quantitative insights with the lived experiences of coaches and their clients, this research brief brings both rigor and humanity to the story. It explores not only what strengths-based coaching is and how it works, but what it looks like in practice—and why it creates meaningful, enduring impact for the individuals and organizations that invest in it. The Efficacy of Strengths-based Coaching research will be shared here on July 10, 2026.
Talent Strategic Advisory Offerings
New offering! Leader Effectiveness Consulting
We’re excited to introduce a new consulting engagement focused on elevating leadership impact through strengths.
Leader Effectiveness Consulting helps organizations define, develop, and scale leader effectiveness through a strengths-based lens—focusing on what leaders naturally do best and how those strengths drive performance, trust, and engagement.
Grounded in research and aligned to business priorities, this offering supports clients in clarifying strengths-aligned leadership behaviors, understanding how leaders are currently activating their strengths, and implementing practical strategies that help leaders to lead with authenticity and impact.
Whether evolving a leadership approach, activating a new initiative, or navigating culture and performance shifts, this offering ensures leader effectiveness is rooted in individual strengths while remaining measurable, scalable, and meaningful to the business.
Offering Deliverables:
- Alignment on a definition of Leader Effectiveness specific to your organization
- Gap analysis of current leadership practices
- Actionable recommendations and roadmap
StandOut Strengths Development
New! eLearning Modules: StandOut Check-In Foundations
Two new eLearning modules (available for StandOut Strengths Development clients) provide an engaging, entertaining introduction to Check-Ins for both team members and team leaders, helping them to have meaningful weekly conversations based on strengths.
The first module, Check-Ins: Creating Good Weeks at Work, explores Check-Ins from the perspective of a team member. It helps users understand what’s in it for them to do regular Check-Ins and provides an opportunity to practice reflecting on their work from a strengths-based perspective.
The second module, Check-Ins for Team Leaders: Drawing out the Best of Your People, explores the impact of the StandOut approach to leading teams and provides team leaders with sample Check-Ins to help them practice aligning team members’ strengths to their work.
Sample use cases:
• Assign to all new hires as part of onboarding
• Assign to all new people leaders as part of orientation to leading teams
• Use as part of a launch or relaunch of StandOut or the strengths approach
StandOut Strengths Development
New! Downloadable StandOut Icon Files
By popular demand, we are offering downloadable versions of the StandOut Role icons, both individually and as combinations. Available as .eps, .png, and .jpg files, these illustrations can be used in your internal StandOut informational campaigns.
Sample Use Cases:
• Print stickers to give to promote StandOut to employees
• Add StandOut Roles to email signatures
• Print posters for use in StandOut events
Current StandOut Strengths Development clients can find these downloadable files in the Digital Content tab of StandOut Now.
StandOut Strengths Development
Update: StandOut Strengths Foundations (Module 2)
Action Needed: If you are a StandOut Strengths Development subscriber and currently using the Strengths Foundations eLearning content, please download the updated version of Module 2, Strength Roles, which features bug fixes and minor updates to enhance your learners’ experience.
If you’re curious to learn more about these resources, or the StandOut Strengths Development offering, please reach out to your Talent Solutions Partner or Deployment Consultant for more information.