Virtual exchanges continue to dominate most of our social interactions in the workplace, requiring L&D and HR teams to incorporate more digital workshops into their current learning and training offerings.
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Find out how you can make the best of your remote learning experience.
Since March, you haven’t had to get “properly” dressed, stand on a crowded bus, get stuck in traffic, wait in line for your lunch order, or make small talk with colleagues. Indeed, since these global lockdowns were put into place, you’ve been working comfortably from home – and yet you’re finding yourself completely exhausted at the end of each workday, even more so than before you were told to stay at home. This is what’s now recognized, worldwide, as “Zoom Fatigue.”
Along with Donald H. Taylor, chairman of Learning Technologies, the Learning and Performance Institute, Speexx carried out a global sentiment survey in recent weeks. We wanted to find out more about the challenges L&D and HR professionals face while supporting employees who are learning from home and are working in virtual teams. We asked training professionals what they think will be the three biggest challenges for corporate L&D in the new age of learning from home.
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Increased diversity in the workplace may promise benefits but it brings complex challenges since subtle, unacknowledged prejudice and discrimination are common but hard to manage. The result is ‘emotional labor’ (EL).
With remote work becoming standard practice, team leaders need to rethink their communication strategies. Virtual teams tend to be culturally diverse and studies show they have the advantage of being more innovative and able to easily move quickly out of their comfort zone, but bringing them together to collaborate can be challenging.
We continue a two-part series where we suggest nine questions to ask yourself before you select a corporate language training partner.
Speexx is excited to share that we’ve partnered up with Swiss Exams, experts in exam management, to bring the Speexx and Cambridge Assessment English joint offerings to organizations in Switzerland. Swiss Exams is the very first partner from the Cambridge partner network with whom Speexx will be rolling out the co-branded language learning solutions.