Your time isn’t worth anything
That’s what the following behaviors communicate: Saying yes to everything. If we say “yes” to everything people ask of us, we hold up our priorities in response to anything that crosses out path. Saying “no” is a skill successful people use to achieve their goals. Letting people interrupt you. We set aside anything at the […]
Multi-tasking is incompatible with efficiency. Why?
Monday morning. We sit down in front of the computer with a cup of coffee and open our mail. We’re almost ready to start answering e-mails and begin our workday when suddenly the telephone rings. In the middle of the call, our boss comes over and assigns us a task. We get to work on […]
To Do List: the tool to be truly productive
One of the keys to avoid stress at the very beginning of the day is to learn to be planned using taks lists. Our day is full of commitments, meetings, emails, interruptions … utter chaos we must learn to control if we are to be truly productive. The best tool for this is to prepare- and […]
How a Serious Game is made
In the world of e-Learning, a growing trend, well-known by online training experts, predominates. This involves “serious games,” the cornerstone of “gamification” and the engine of many training programs for companies and businesses. Most serious games are RPGs (Role Play Games), which means that there are users who adopt the roles of “invisible actors” who […]
Work life balance: 7 tips to improve your life
Reach a better work life balance is one of the main objectives to increase your productivity. Follow this seven tips to improve your work life balance and improve your life. 1. Avoid excessive planning Planning is important to organize the start of our working day and avoid stress at the very beginning. But too much planning […]
E-Learning, the most popular education purchase
When selecting the technology to implement in training, e-learning is the most frequent choice. Half of schools use e-learning software and online homework portals and 29% is planning to include or modernize the one that they are using. Game-based learning and mobile apps for training have found their place in 4 out of 10 classrooms, […]
The positive impact of video games in training
The study “Empowering Educators: Supporting Student Progress in the Classroom with Digital Games” developed by Jan Plass in NYU and Barry Fishman of Michigan University, affirm that more than half of the teachers (57%) use digital games weekly or frequently in learning and 18% use them daily. Despite this data, the perception of video games […]
Gamification in negotiation skills training
Gamification in training and development has become an important element in corporate training, especially in sales teams. Negotiation skills training or development is very difficult. The theory of negotiation can be understood with a book, but in order to develop the skills is important to practice in as real an environment as possible. Developing negotiation […]
GBL vs e-learning training
Corporate training has changed dramatically since the appearance of online or e-learning products. In-class room training has inherent disadvantages, including being time consuming (participants have to block off large amounts of time), hard to coordinate, and logistically unavailable for teams spread across geographies. Because of these disadvantages, e-learning has become a preferred, cheaper alternative that […]
You have to work on soft skills!
Soft skills are the traits that defines your relationships. In our daily life we are obsessed to understand what we do and what others do. Therefore, since childhood we are trained in hard skills, those that have to do with our knowledge, experiences, technical skills, languages … Yes, everything we write on our CV. Increasingly, […]