Fall 2026

Welcome to this edition of our Grow with TWU HR! We invite you to explore these exciting new programs and resources designed to help you engage with our community, showcase your creativity, and elevate your professional growth at TWU.

TWU HR is excited to announce a new partnership with North Texas Adult Education and Literacy (NTAEL) to support our employees' professional growth and skill development.

Through this collaboration, TWU HR and NTAEL are working together to bring free English and digital literacy classes through our workplace literacy program directly to eligible campus employees at our Denton location. This initiative is designed to help team members enhance their daily workplace communication, digital skills, and career confidence right here on campus.

We invite employees interested in learning more to join us for an upcoming informational session. This session will cover general program details and provide an opportunity to ask questions.

Date: October 7

Time: 1:00-2:00 PM

Location: MCL 702

In addition to our on-campus Workplace English classes, NTAEL offers a variety of free community programs at its facilities for eligible Denton County residents. These programs provide opportunities to strengthen foundational skills, build workforce readiness, and support continued learning.

Available programs include:

These community programs may be a helpful resource for employees or eligible family members interested in building skills that support their personal and professional goals.

Please visit NTAEL’s community-wide educational programs to learn more. 

A heartfelt thank you to all the TWU faculty and staff who shared their artistic talents in this year's On My Own Time competition.

You can view all the wonderful submissions from our colleagues in the 2026 TWU OMOT Virtual Gallery. Please join us in celebrating our TWU 1st Place Category Winners:

The inaugural Staff LEAD cohort is well into its leadership development journey, and the experience continues to demonstrate the value of learning together across TWU. Participants from a variety of roles and functions have explored leadership theory, personal discipline, motivation, systems thinking, social awareness, and empathy while bringing their own experiences and perspectives into the conversation. The cohort has also had the opportunity to learn directly from TWU leaders and special guests, including Chancellor Feyten, Dr. Becky Fredrickson,

Wandaliz Turner, and Aimee Laun. We extend a special thank you to the faculty, staff, and senior leaders who have shared their time and leadership journeys through coffee chats and other informal discussions.

Learning has extended beyond the classroom through an Action Learning Project focused on employee wellbeing, where participants are applying their knowledge to a real-world challenge and developing solutions through a systemic leadership lens.

Most of all, this cohort reminds us that leadership can happen at all levels. United by our shared purpose, each of us has the opportunity to lead from where we are, and leadership development helps prepare us for the pathways ahead. If you are interested in joining the next Staff LEAD cohort, please visit our website for information and upcoming opportunities. This program is supported by the generosity of the Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership.  

Great teams don’t happen by accident. They are built through strong communication, collaboration, shared expectations, and a commitment to working well together.

TeamWorks sessions bring practical, interactive team development directly to TWU departments, with sessions focused on topics such as psychological safety, difficult conversations, character strengths, and navigating change.

Ready to invest in your team? Submit a request form to bring a session to your department.

The following professional development sessions are available to all staff and faculty. Please join us in these opportunities for connection and learning together. 

Looking to catch up on a missed training session or refresh your skills? You can now access our library of recorded workplace training videos anytime!

We’ve organized these sessions into a convenient YouTube playlist so you can watch them on your own schedule from any device. Be sure to bookmark the playlist, as we’ll continue adding new sessions over time!

One of the things I’ve come to appreciate about professional development is that some of our most meaningful learning happens when we’re in the middle of something we haven’t encountered before. There’s a problem that needs to be solved, a difficult conversation that needs to happen, or a decision that needs to be made, and suddenly, we have to figure it out. We don’t always get it right, but even our mistakes can teach us something. There can be value in the humility of realizing we could have handled something differently, and in asking someone else how they might approach it or watching someone with more experience navigate a similar situation.

For early-career managers especially, it’s important to remember that the people who seem to “knock it out of the park” often have years of experience (and years of mistakes, reflection, and learning behind them). It is unreasonable to expect yourself to develop every management skill overnight.

At the same time, we have more agency over our development than we sometimes realize. Self-directed learning tools like LinkedIn Learning can be an excellent supplement to real experience. Rather than simply accumulating courses in our spare time and hoping they become useful someday, we can use on-demand resources to explore a question, prepare for a challenge, or find a better path forward after we encounter something difficult. You can learn at your own pace, seek out perspectives from experienced professionals, and then bring that learning back into your work.

The courses below are a few popular places to start for newer managers, but think of them as just that: a starting point for building your own toolkit.

This training is designed to teach community members how to respond to suicidal behavior, expressions of suicidal intent, or other crises that someone they know might be experiencing. The session also emphasizes listening, being supportive, and transferring care of persons who are considering suicide to an appropriate professional.

Topics include:

Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026

Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT

Location: Zoom (Link will be sent the morning of the webinar)

Note: If you do not receive your Zoom link on the day of the event, please contact AM@alliancewp.com.

Please contact the Organizational Development Team in Human Resources.