Welcome to our dedicated hub for thought leadership and innovative practices in people development. At Speexx, our commitment to fostering professional growth through our award-winning SaaS B2B platform shines in every article and interview we share. Whether you’re seeking to enhance corporate language training, explore business coaching, or mentoring: our blog is your gateway to the latest in leadership news, HR trends, and employee engagement strategies. Since we focus on people development, you will also find blogposts about remote work, lifelong learning, employer branding, Learning and Development, people analytics, skill development and talent management.
The term positive leadership was originally born from the results of various studies on brain research and positive psychology. Accordingly, purposeful, and positive actions should increase positive emotions in the team and lead to an excellent performance.
Caring at lot takes its toll on HR professionals. Compassion fatigue is a real and debilitating stress response that impacts all areas of life. But who cares about the people who care about our people? Read on for a personal account and some tips to combat compassion fatigue.
In these times of constant distraction, monotasking might be the answer you need. More mindfulness in the workplace ensures that full concentration is dedicated to a project for maximum success. Crucially, without the numerous distractions of everyday life and with full focus on the actual task in hand.
As two of the leading tech companies seem to have vastly different visions of the future of work, HR and L&D professionals might be left feeling confused. Will a game of Solitaire really improve team spirit? Or is this just another unnecessary distraction in a time of digital fatigue?
Elon Musk’s recent leaked email caused some raised eyebrows, and led to a number of prominent tech companies reaching out to Tesla employees and restating their commitment to hybrid and remote working. This brought Alex Handcock, Global Head of Marketing & Communications at Speexx, to the question — Was this a remote work fail from Musk?
Diversity in companies is created through inclusion in the workplace. In this interview with Speexx, Magdalena Rogl, Project Lead Diversity & Inclusion at Microsoft Germany, explains how empathy makes organizations more open, what challenges need to be overcome and why she is confident that her job will be redundant in the future.
We caught up with #1 Amazon best-selling author Jeremy Blain (The Inner CEO) to ask some questions and hear his thoughts on how organizations can lead better, do better, and be better.
Speexx co-founder and president, Armin Hopp, shares his thoughts on the evolution of the modern workplace, with the global talent pool now firmly in the driving seat and aware of their inherent value.