About September’s Wellbeing Theme: Strength

Here’s Your Admin Strategy Guide for September 2025

Traditional Definition of Strength: The quality or state of being physically strong.

How We’re Thinking About It: The ability to face challenges, bounce back, and keep growing by combining determination with rest, openness, and support from others.

Why Strength Matters at Work

Every company wants strong performance and a strong team. But strength isn’t a fixed trait; it’s a process of development. Think about building muscle: the body gets stronger through consistent effort, overcoming resistance, and recovery. Similarly, building a strong workplace is about developing the capacity to handle challenges, recover, and keep moving forward.

Strength is both personal and collective. A strong team thrives when employees are empowered to grow, fail, and challenge each other. This requires a culture of psychological safety, where people can be vulnerable, admit when they don’t know something, and ask for support.

True strength isn’t avoiding weakness or failure. It’s building resilience, facing the unknown, and overcoming challenges together.

Bringing the Theme to Life

• 💪 Strengths-Based Management
  Research shows that when employees align their work with their natural strengths, both performance and job satisfaction increase. Encourage managers to learn their teams’ strengths and align tasks accordingly.

• 🔄 Reframe Failure
  Normalize failure as part of growth by hosting “Lessons Learned” sessions where employees share takeaways from setbacks and discuss improvements.

• 🤝 Create Mentorship or Peer Support Programs
  Pair employees with mentors or support partners to foster growth and resilience. Not ready for a full program? Host small, practical mentoring meetups (like “Lunch & Learns”) where employees can learn from each other.

This Month in Wellbeing

• 👥 Community Workshops

  • The Strength We Share | Live on Thursday, September 4th, 12pm ET
    Strength means more than just pushing through. When we talk about strength, we often picture grit and muscle. But true strength includes rest, openness, and support. In this session, we’ll explore how to face challenges, bounce back, and keep growing by drawing on the full spectrum of strength.

  • Strength in Motion | Live on Thursday, September 11th, 12pm ET
    Find strength in how your body moves today. This practice is about meeting your body where it is, and discovering the strength that’s already there. Through guided, gentle movements, you’ll look into how strength shows up in flexibility, balance, and honoring what your body can do today. Leave feeling grounded, capable, and reconnected to your own kind of strength.

  • Finding the Strength Within | Live on Thursday, September 25th, 12pm ET
    Gain strength from the inside out. Step away from the noise and reconnect with your breath, your body, and your inner calm. In this mindfulness session, you’ll discover how slowing down can help you recover energy, release stress, and return stronger.

• 🧰 New Resources

  • Why We’re Checking Out (and How to Check Back In)
    In a world that makes disengagement easy, this guide explores why showing up feels so hard right now… and how to bring your energy and presence back into the spaces you care about most.

  • At-Home Bodyweight Workout
    Exercise your body from home with 3 different challenge levels of bodyweight workouts. Start with a light warm-up and move into a workout routine that fits your lifestyle. Finally, make sure you cool down prior to ending your workout.

  • How Being Grounded Helps You Respond to Stress Differently
    Stress, tension, and chaos will come. Grounding is how you meet them with calmness, presence, and control. Here’s how to start.

  • Redefining Strength for the Burnout Era
    What if strength wasn’t about how much you can endure, but about how well you sustain? It’s time to redefine strength in a way that sustains us instead of burning us out.

What Else is Happening This Month?

Encourage your team to use this month as a reset point: building strength for what’s ahead while honoring the diverse ways people contribute, grow, and care for themselves and others.

• 📅 Labor Day (Sept. 1) — Honor the contributions and resilience of workers. Share stories, history, and tips for using the holiday to recharge.

• 🧠 World Suicide Prevention Day (Sept. 10) & Month — Strength includes knowing when to ask for help. Foster an environment where employees feel comfortable discussing mental health and asking for help when they need it.

• 🍏 Healthy Aging Month — Focus on the strength that comes with age and how fostering healthy habits contributes to overall wellbeing.

• 🌎 Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15–Oct. 15) — Celebrate the strength of diverse cultures, acknowledging the resilience and contributions of Hispanic communities. Share stories and resources to build inclusive strength in the workplace.

• 🎗️ Ovarian & Prostate Cancer Awareness Month — Promote physical strength by raising awareness about health and prevention. Encourage employees to prioritize regular check-ups and support those affected by ovarian and prostate cancer through resources and community support.

• 🙏 World Gratitude Day (Sept. 21) — Use this day to highlight how gratitude strengthens relationships and resilience. Invite employees to share what they’re thankful for.