Canada’s Royal St. George’s College chooses serious games as education for the twenty-first century
Founded in 1964, Royal St. George’s College ranks as among Toronto’s best schools. Its top-tier academic program for approximately 450 students includes an education in core values such as solidarity, respect, humanism and equality. Thanks to the quality of its instruction, alumni of Royal St. George’s College usually go on to study engineering, finance and […]
5 examples of negotiation mistakes we can find in Disney movies
One of the main things Disney has portrayed incredibly well in its movies is the conflict between heroes and villains. Very rarely negotiations between the forces of good and evil come to fruition; they are mostly unsuccessful and, almost always, to the detriment of the heroic protagonists. After all, the heroes’ mission is to overcome […]
Dometic uses video games as a training method to attract and retain talent
The Swedish-based company Dometic Group is a global leader in the production of high tech air conditioning, hygiene, refrigeration, and security for all type of vehicles (RVs, cars, trucks, and boats). This company, whose slogan is “Mobile living made easy”, has over 6,500 employees worldwide, with a turnover of 1.25 billion euros in 2016. Like […]
What can blockchain do for e-learning?
In the last Expoelearning fair held in Madrid, the International Congress focused on how the blockchain technology is already helping e-learning and how it will be capable of helping it even further in the future. For some industry players, this technology is destined to become the solution to some on-going problems in online training, such […]
Saint-Gobain Distribution commits to serious games to bring its training further into the digital sphere
Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment France is France’s largest distributor of construction materials, with 2,200 sales points throughout the country. The company is part of the Saint-Gobain corporate group, which specializes in manufacturing glass and other high-performance construction materials and has nearly 200,000 employees worldwide. From Campus Pro, Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment France’s internal training center, the company […]
Maersk boosts its legal team’s efficiency in India thanks to game-based learning
Aditi Sharma, L&D manager at Maersk, explains the keys to success in integrating a game-based learning project in this company with almost 88,000 employees in 935 offices scattered throughout 130 countries. Q: What is Maersk’s activity? A: Maersk is an integrated transport and logistics company with multiple brands and is a global leader in container […]
Solve the mystery of productive efficiency in only five minutes
In economics, productive efficiency – or technical efficiency – is reached when no more quantity of a product can be reached without sacrificing the production of another. If we apply this concept to productivity in the workplace we end up with the well-known 80/20 rule associated to the Pareto principle, developed in the late 19th […]
How to hold a sales workshop without bringing your entire team for a meeting
All sales workshops are set up to train sales and marketing teams how to best use certain methods, techniques and skills to foster sales and customer loyalty. Workshops no doubt require a solid practical base, in which regard role dynamics and similar methods are commonly used to gain practical experience in sales processes. In this […]
The best-kept secret for learning leadership and overcoming your fear of making mistakes
Reciting a list of the surefire steps isn’t the best approach to learn leadership, since each leader’s personality is an instrumental factor in shaping a leadership style and therefore not all guides work the same for every leader. We can, however, identify three basic concepts behind any effective leadership, though we should nevertheless bear the […]
Is Democratic Leadership Effective?
Democratic leadership, also known as participative leadership, is a type of leadership style in which members of the group take a more participative role in the decision-making process. Democratic leaders are characterized for allowing all members of their teams to share their ideas, who also share the decision-making responsibilities. Democratic leaders focus on quality rather […]