Soft Skills

You can teach employees hard skills at any time. Soft skills, on the other hand, are better taught early on in an employee’s career, as bad soft skills habits can be tough to shake off. Learn how you can combine onboarding with soft skills training and get your employees ready from the get-go.

Are you a marketing expert on a high position in the team hierarchy, or are you simply taking care of email content and design? Whatever the case is, you could definitely benefit from advanced leadership skills.

With constant demands on business through new legislation (think GDPR) and the need to upskill and encourage employee development (think CPD), there’s an increased need for training. But how do you cover all the bases and stay abreast of new developments?

If only training were that simple. You find the right programme and make sure all your employees take it. Job done. But we know that even with the best training courses, people forget what they’ve learned. And very quickly too.

Learning is a lifelong process, an old adage rightly indicates. Rapid innovations in almost every conceivable sector render imperative that we acquire – or rather – master any new skills and learn them rather quickly.

Did you know that 75% of long-term job success comes down to soft skills mastery? And, researchers found that workers with soft skills training are 12% more productive than those without them, which translates into a 256% ROI. Here's how you can develop soft skills in the workplace effectively.

To read the many profiles of great business leaders, you’d think that they are born, not made. Yet, leadership at the top and throughout an organisation is too important to be left to chance.

Don't be fooled by how simple and straightforward these practices seem. The real challenge (and difficulty) is doing them day-in and day-out.

Which speech characteristics make a great presentation? How can quantifiable insights from voice analytics help transform speakers and leaders and empower them to speak more effectively?

The theme of the annual World Economic Forum was ‘Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution’. This revolution is being driven primarily by the rapid advance of digital technology. It’s already having an impact, changing the nature of work and requiring employees to be increasingly flexible.

Recall when you were once a learner deep in a learning environment? Chances are it was during your academic years. The stress to pass your courses let alone get good grades were always top of mind. Then why do we lack empthy for today's learner and student?

Although Learning and Development (L&D) and Marketing may have different types of teams, the core aim of both departments is to communicate in a way that focuses on changing the behavior of people. It’s only in the best interest of an organization to have the two share learnings since their fields of expertise overlap.