Mindful of the momentous – and rapid – changes in the workplace over recent years, mostly thanks to advancing technology, any self-respecting manager and business leader will be anxiously watching for the next “big thing”.
Is your workforce is equipped with the skills required to enter new markets? As HR leaders of an expanding global organization, you need to know—but how can you tell? Discerning how knowledgeable your staff is about other cultures, customs and communication norms is vital to a successful entrance into a new region.
The need for better employee engagement and productivity has become pressing in an international marketplace. Forward-thinking organisations are responding to this by structuring themselves in a more responsive and flexible way. In this video for the HRDIRECTOR, Armin Hopp, Founder and President of Speexx looks at the rise of a virtual team and how HR professionals can support them.
Culture and management matter a great deal to Americans on the search for a job, whereas their European counterparts have slightly different interests in mind.
If you work in a multinational organization with offices all over the world your workforce has a business need to communicate across borders with colleagues, clients and partners. But without the right language skills, your staff ends up working in local silos, unable to communicate with the rest of their corporate world.
At Speexx, we know a thing or two about online language training and business communication for organizations. But recently, we’ve also been turning into specialists for combining cooking delicious food and exchanging conversations, thanks to our Let’s COOK Together event, which happened in Madrid last week.
We are frequently reminded through advertising and marketing of how many Multinationals claim to be 'truly global' in their approach to business. But for many, words like Values, Integrity, Social Responsibility have all become much more marketing fodder than actual maxims by which to guide a company.
We're excited to present the first of our three-part video guide which will help HR and L&D Managers harness the power of workforce mobility and big learner data. "Succession Planning and Talent Mobility" looks at the role of succession planning in today’s working context and [...]
The Need for Glocalization When describing Speexx as a global online language training solution with local support, we often use the term glocalization. I would really love to claim this one for myself but actually, it first appeared in the late 1980s in articles [...]