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.
Driving Digital Transformation with Microsoft ScaleUp
"The promise of technology is to help us get more done, with less effort," says Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, a belief that is also reflected in the Microsoft solutions, as well as its ScaleUp program (formerly known as Microsoft Accelerator), offering support to companies who complement and leverage the transition to cloud solutions and a digital-first world, enabling people from all layers of society to benefit from progress and advantages of a digital society.Â
Boosting Productivity with Soft Skills
The UK is not the only advanced economy suffering weak productivity growth – Reuters reported in early December that Canadian productivity fell in the third quarter, the second consecutive decline, as the number of hours worked grew faster than business output. Bucking the trend, the US productivity jumped three percent in the third quarter, its best result in three years.
Managing GDPR in the Global Learning Landscape
Speexx was founded in Germany, a country with one the of the strictest data protection regulation policies I know of, at least. We’re now based all over the world and the one of the greatest challenges we see is that HR teams from regions with lower data protection standards don’t yet understand the regulations from countries with more rigid laws. This is a major issue when it comes to big data.
How Serious Gamification Drives Learning
Save the Children is aiming to be a trailblazer in the humanitarian sector, developing new learning technologies and content – and making the digital learning content freely available for others in the sector to benefit from. At Speexx Exchange in Berlin, Save the Children showcased how the organisation has invested in serious gaming.
Four Questions to Ask When Choosing a Learning System
There is a learning curve when ramping up to go live but the ongoing rigour of maintaining and updating content and making sure the right people see the right content and achieve the desired learning outcomes should be as easy and fast as possible.
Complementing Actions: the Power of Communication
To be an effective leader requires many skills. These will be found in different proportions, depending on the sort of effective leader you are. Yet one skill area in which every effective leader – of whatever type – must excel, is communication. The first step to improving anything about yourself, including your communication skills, is to take what you already do to the highest level.
Making Meetings Meaningful
There can be few people – except, perhaps the genuinely work-shy – who delight in attending meetings and would choose to be in one rather than being allowed to do anything else, including getting on with their work. Yet meetings continue to litter our diaries. So, who wants them? Do we secretly like them more than we’d be prepared to acknowledge publicly?
Growing International Business Through Language Skills
Speexx, the global provider of online corporate language training, will present solutions for continuous learning and micro learning at the upcoming Learning Technologies on 31 January and February 1, 2018, at Olympia Central, London. Furthermore, Speexx will be hosting a seminar on building high-quality business communication and agility for successful multinational operations.