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Communication Strategies: Using the Flinch Response
Today, we tell you how to negotiate using the ‘flinch’ technique or “emotional exaggeration”, one of the oldest communication strategies, although also one of the most unknown by negotiators. What is the flinch and how does it work? It is…
Communication and Leadership: these are the Leaders of Today… and Tomorrow
Communication and Leadership go hand in hand. That is why a leader needs to know how to convey the most important ideas. This is how the leader of today and tomorrow communicates: Count on people People are the cornerstone of…
13 Leadership Mantras for 13 Leadership Qualities
Defining leadership so we can cover all of its aspects is no easy task, as there are multiple approaches and ways to tackle the issue. Today, we bring you 13 leadership mantras for 13 leadership qualities: You may also like: What…
Conflict Resolution in the workplace: 6 attitudes that you should avoid
The conflict resolution in the workplace is something essential and, to a certain extent, unavoidable. Knowing how to resolve the disagreements is the key to easing tensions and reacting intelligently. These are the 6 attitudes we should control to avoid a conflict resolution:…
Game-Based Learning: from A to Z
The impact of new learning methods reaches its peak in the use of gaming dynamics applied to corporate training. We bring you the ABC of game-based learning, the keys to its effectiveness: A for Achievement Game-based learning is learning through…
How To Plan Your Life To Have Free Time Every Day
We all need some free time to perform better afterwards and grab the opportunity to do the things that we like and we cannot always do. There are often not enough hours in our days to complete our pending tasks,…
Business Coaching: Know the Benefits ‘Lean Startup’ Can Offer your Business
What rules does a ‘CEO Lean’ follow? The ‘lean startup’ is a business venture method made popular less than a decade ago by the author Eric Ries. It consists on significantly reducing the time and cost of implementing a ‘startup’…
Getting Things Done System: 6 Tips on Managing What you Don’t Want To Do
From the GTD (Getting Things Done) task management system, which gives its title to the book by David Allen and a name to a whole productivity system, you can extract these 6 tips that will help you manage what you…
Why Serious games are more Effective than elearning
Serious games have broken into the world of learning, proving they can be tools which can be equally or more effective than teachers in corporate training. Today, we bring you some thoughts by Dr. John C. Beck, president of the…
The Importance of Time Management for Your Job Satisfaction and Your Employees’
Being productive workers is not only beneficial for our company. Knowing how to properly manage our time makes us happier and improves our job satisfaction. These are the 6 reasons why productivity and time management are so important: 1. Because…
Gamelearn, Torchbearer of Serious Games at LEARNTEC in Karlsruhe
Gamelearn is traveling to the German city of Karlsruhe to attend LEARNTEC 2016, one of the most renowned international events in the field of training and online learning. In this new edition, held from January 26th to 28th, the focus…
How To Prioritize Tasks When You Are Bored
If boredom is haunting you, we have the solution: go to your task list and check your priorities. Keep on reading and learn how to prioritize tasks and become productive when you don’t know what to do. Boredom kills productivity…
The 5 Great Challenges For Corporate Training In 2016
Do you know which challenges will corporate training face in 2016? Implementing a training project for the workers in our organization means facing a series of challenges that vary with time. Years ago the priority was, among other things, to…
What Is Leadership? 10 Ways To Define It
What is leadership? Each of us believe we have a good idea about what it means to be a good leader, but when it comes to defining the concept, the picture is not so clear. For some, leadership is motivation,…
How To Increase Your Productivity Now and in Only 60 Minutes
Improving our productivity is quite a common aspiration. There are many things we want to do, projects we want to carry out, ideas we want to see come true, etc. And to achieve all this, we have not got nearly…
Gamelearn attending the ATD Techknowledge in Las Vegas
Gamelearn is attending, on January 13 and 14, the ATD 2016 TechKnowledge® in Las Vegas. This is one of the most prestigious meetings in the training sector, which brings together 1.500 professionals to delve into new talent development strategies. TK 2016…
Summary of Gamelearn in 2015
If you have been following closely the evolution of Gamelearn during this nearly finished 2015, you know that we have not stopped moving around the world and launching new projects. If you could not join us for these last twelve…
8 Effective Negotiating Techniques that will Turn an Entrepreneur into a Seller
A great part of our success depends on knowing how to sell our products, our services or just our ideas to our public. Whatever the area of your company, you will find these 8 effective negotiation techniques useful for you…
Top 10 Groundbreaking Gamification Examples
In this blog we have been telling you many things about gamification and game-based learning (GBL). We have talked about the trials faced by e-learning, analyzed the challenges to GBL companies, we have told you about the advantages of gamifying…
The Game as the New Strategy in Human Resources
More and more people are hearing about gamification and are getting to know what it is. The use of game mechanics in activities or contexts away from the playful environment is a trend that keeps on growing. The game is…