About December’s Wellbeing Theme: Confidence
Here’s Your Admin Strategy Guide for December 2025
Traditional Definition of Confidence: The state of feeling certain about the truth of something; a feeling of self-assurance.
How We’re Thinking About It: Building the resilience to try, adapt, and grow; taking intentional steps forward while cultivating trust in yourself and in collaboration.
Why Confidence Matters at Work
In fast-moving workplaces, employees often feel pressure to appear confident, even when they’re overwhelmed, unclear, or stretched thin. This pressure can fuel stress, hesitation, and burnout, as people fear mistakes or second-guess their abilities.
When employee confidence is supported, they feel empowered to take action, share ideas, and collaborate more openly. Confidence encourages problem-solving, stronger communication, and innovation. It also builds resilience, allowing teams to recover from setbacks with clarity and momentum rather than self-doubt.
December is a natural time to reflect on the year and look ahead. By fostering confidence now, workplaces can help employees close out the year on a note of self-assurance and step into the new year with a renewed sense of purpose and trust in themselves.
Bringing the Theme to Life
🌱 Encourage “Learning Confidence”: Normalize that confidence grows through practice. Encourage employees to share one thing they’ve learned this year and how they’ll use it going forward.
🗣️ Practice Public Appreciation: Create opportunities for employees to voice gratitude for one another’s skills and strengths during team gatherings or year-end celebrations.
📈 Highlight Growth, Not Just Goals: Ask teams to reflect on progress made this year rather than only unfinished tasks. Confidence builds when effort and growth are both acknowledged.
🌟 Model Confident Leadership: Leaders can share their own moments of uncertainty and how they navigated them, reinforcing that confidence includes vulnerability and learning.
This Month in Wellbeing
👥 Community Workshops
The Practice of Believing in Yourself | Live on Tuesday, December 2nd, 12pm ET
Confidence isn’t something you either have or don’t; it’s something you practice, especially when things feel uncertain. In this conversation, we’ll unpack what self-trust looks like and how to strengthen it without the fake-it-till-you-make-it attitude.Take Up Space & Return to Center | Live on Tuesday, December 9th, 12pm ET
Feeling confident starts in the body: in the way we breathe and take up space. Through gentle, grounded movement, you’ll practice returning to center; building confidence you can feel in your body and call on when you need it most.
Note: This session includes simple, desk-friendly movements perfect for joining right from your workspace.Quiet the Noise & Find Your Confidence | Live on Tuesday, December 16th, 12pm ET
Confidence lives in the pause before we react, the deep breath before we decide. But sometimes, our confidence can be found hiding under a pile of overthinking. When our mind is racing, it’s hard to hear the steady part of ourselves that already knows what to do. This practice helps you find that calm confidence again.
🧰 New Resources
Why Stress Rocks Our Confidence & How to Gain It Back
Struggling with confidence? Explore the link between stress, trust, and self-doubt, plus practical ways to rebuild confidence at work and in daily life.What is Quiet Confidence & How to Spot It in Ourselves
Learn how quiet confidence shows up in daily moments, why it matters, and simple ways to recognize and strengthen this subtle but powerful form of confidence.How to Start Before You Feel Ready: Practical Ways to Take Action Today
Understand why waiting for the perfect moment to get started on something can keep you stalled and find simple tools to start today, build momentum, and increase confidence.Your Year-End Reflection Guide
Feeling unsure about the last year? Make sense of it with this four-step reflection guide. Identify your challenges, growth, and the insights you want to bring into the new year.
What Else is Happening This Month?
These December observances create meaningful openings to acknowledge growth, recognize contributions, and step into the new year with confidence:
🌍 World AIDS Day (Dec. 1): Raise awareness and support employees by sharing health resources and honoring the resilience of those impacted.
♿ International Day of Persons with Disabilities (Dec. 3): Build confidence in inclusion by recognizing accessibility efforts and celebrating the contributions of people with disabilities.
🤝 International Volunteer Day (Dec. 5): Encourage confidence through service by highlighting volunteer opportunities and employee community impact stories.
🌎 Human Rights Day (Dec. 10): Reinforce your organization’s commitment to equity and dignity, supporting employees in feeling valued and secure.
🎉 New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31): Celebrate year-end achievements, invite reflection, and inspire confidence for the new year ahead.
🧠 National Stress-Free Family Holiday Month: Support employees in balancing work and home demands with tools to reduce holiday stress and preserve energy.
