Tag: corporate communication skills training

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
Jul 18th, 2018

Amazon’s Amazing Approach to Management Meetings

Jennifer Hubauer

Write the word “executive” and the adjective “busy” is likely to be in close proximity. That’s the nature of the modern workplace. Modern managers – including L&D professionals – tend to be so busy that there’s little time for them to think.

Amazon’s Amazing Approach to Management MeetingsJennifer Hubauer
Feb 13th, 2018

Complementing Actions: the Power of Communication

Jennifer Hubauer

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.

Complementing Actions: the Power of CommunicationJennifer Hubauer
Nov 30th, 2017

Customer Communications: Customer Experience Strategy – Creating a “Wow”

Jennifer Hubauer

The renowned management guru, Peter Drucker, once wrote that since “the purpose of business is to create a customer; the business enterprise has two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results. All the rest are merely costs.”

Customer Communications: Customer Experience Strategy – Creating a “Wow”Jennifer Hubauer
Aug 7th, 2017

4 Habits of Effective Leaders in HR

Armin Hopp

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 However, companies with excellent HR departments are defying—and changing—this outdated reputation.

4 Habits of Effective Leaders in HRArmin Hopp
Dec 5th, 2016

Strengthening Leadership: Corporate Language Training for Executives

Armin Hopp

Many executives have difficulty finding time to spend on language training. If they travel frequently or meet with investors and stakeholders, it may be impossible for them to attend regular classroom sessions.

Strengthening Leadership: Corporate Language Training for ExecutivesArmin Hopp
Aug 22nd, 2016

3 HR Trends in Successful Multinational Teams

Lucia Alexandra Scurei

As workforces become increasingly globalized, cross-border communication has become a critical challenge for HR teams to address. According to a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), people management is among the top current challenges for senior and C-level executives, second only to slow growth in key markets.

3 HR Trends in Successful Multinational TeamsLucia Alexandra Scurei
Jun 7th, 2016

How to Prioritise on Your Corporate Communication Skills

Armin Hopp

Almost all organisations (98%) who participated in the 4th Annual Speexx Exchange survey in December 2015 agreed that good communications are ‘very important’ or ‘important’ for the success of their business. Almost a quarter (24%) thought intercultural differences had a negative impact, while 21% cited lack of foreign language skills among employees.

How to Prioritise on Your Corporate Communication SkillsArmin Hopp
May 13th, 2016

Did You Remember to Plan Your Language Communication Strategy?

Lucia Alexandra Scurei

Did You Remember to Plan Your Language Communication Strategy Working across borders is fun! Right? Imagine the following scenario…. Your company has grown over the last few year and you have added several offices in other countries to the central organization. It is [...]

Did You Remember to Plan Your Language Communication Strategy?Lucia Alexandra Scurei