Tag: business communication

Oct 15th, 2020

The Modern Learner: Bringing the Attention Back to Learning

Armin Hopp

The modern learner constantly feels overwhelmed and distracted. For learning material to be effective, L&D needs to meet their demands for personalized, digital, flexible learning material available at their convenience.

The Modern Learner: Bringing the Attention Back to LearningArmin Hopp
Oct 12th, 2020

Speexx Wins Worlddidac Award 2020

Sarah Voigt

Speexx is pleased to receive the Worlddidac Award 2020 for its business English crash course, “Working From Home".

Speexx Wins Worlddidac Award 2020Sarah Voigt
Sep 15th, 2020

How to Successfully Run a Digital Workshop Step by Step

Jennifer Hubauer

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.

How to Successfully Run a Digital Workshop Step by StepJennifer Hubauer
Jun 30th, 2020

15 Free Resources for Professionals Due to COVID-19

Jennifer Hubauer

This is a list of the best free resources for professionals due to the COVID-19 crisis. Take advantage of these offers from LinkedIn, Udacity, and others while you can!

15 Free Resources for Professionals Due to COVID-19Jennifer Hubauer
Jun 3rd, 2020

How to Combat Zoom Fatigue

Sarah Voigt

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.”

How to Combat Zoom FatigueSarah Voigt
May 20th, 2020

5 Tips for Adapting Digital Content

Armin Hopp

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.

5 Tips for Adapting Digital ContentArmin Hopp
Oct 10th, 2019

Key Organisational Insights From Emotional Labor

Jennifer Hubauer

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).

Key Organisational Insights From Emotional LaborJennifer Hubauer
Aug 22nd, 2019

Four Ways to Improve Communication for Virtual Teams

Jennifer Hubauer

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.

Four Ways to Improve Communication for Virtual TeamsJennifer Hubauer