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.
Five Principles for Perfect Corporate Presentations
Lots of people make lots of presentations but this only seems to provide more scope for presenters to fail in their aim – for personal and/or technological reasons. So, here are some thoughts on how to give the perfect presentation.
What Languages Are Your Customers Speaking?
As monolingual speakers become the minority and powerful languages, such as Mandarin, Spanish and Arabic take on economic capital, multilingualism within your workforce is becoming a necessity, rather than an option. Do you know what languages your prospective customers are speaking?
Four Reasons Why Learning Departments Will Soon Be Disrupted
As it becomes even easier to create learning content as seen by so many vendors we’ll see the ability to auto-create content from existing sources like Box, Dropbox, Sharepoint and turn any PDF, video, document, existing course, quiz into a trackable object for ongoing tracking and training purposes.
How to Spot Gender Bias When You’re Hiring
Improving gender equality is a priority for many major companies, including Accenture and General Electric. As they’ve demonstrated, attention to equality should begin even before employees enter the workplace; starting with fair hiring practices.
Smart Recruiting in the Era of Digital Transformation
Large organisations need to process thousands of applicants sometimes in a very short time-frame. A filter such as a language test drastically reduces costs and ensures a higher chance that HR Managers take pride in the quality of their hires, turning the “chaos of recruiting” into a smart process.
Learner Success Story – How Global NGO Staff learns the best
Speexx is a training partner for LINGOs, a global learning consortium of 80+ aid, international development and conservation organizations. In the course of 2 years since the start of the partnership, a staggering number of over 5,000 consortium staff in more than 125 countries are actively engaged with a training course for French, Spanish or English language training.
4 Habits of Effective Leaders in HR
HR doesn’t always have the best reputation. From laughable caricatures to flippant memes, human resources departments can be the target of often undeserved workplace lampooning. However, companies with excellent HR departments are defying—and changing—this outdated reputation.
Speexx Wins China Supplier Value Award in Learning and Development
Speexx has recently been awarded with the Value Award 'Learning and Development Solution Provider 2017, in the category Corporate Language Training Solution provider', by the judging panel of the China Supplier Value Award in Learning and Development. This award is a recognition of excellence in the quality of learning services provided to Speexx customers, as well as the innovative approach to language learning.