Serious games and gamification Blog
Work on your business leadership before getting dressed every day
Working on your business leadership before starting your day can help you improve your talent. Being a leader is a mental state. You can develop that personal skill way before getting dressed every day. Find out how: Set your “big goal” Find…
Effective Corporate Training: The Positive Effects of Video Games (Infographic)
As ASTD explains in Playing to Win: Gamification and Serious Games in Organizational Learning, 25% of organizations currently use gamification in learning, and 20% of them use serious games. This study looks at 551 business and learning professionals representing…
Manage your Team Meeting like Steve Jobs Did
Managing your team meetings effectively is possible. During his years as head of the multinational Apple, Steve Jobs attended thousands of team meetings. The famous magnate got the vast majority of these meetings to be productive, unlike many other companies…
Beat Post-Vacation Syndrome by Being Productive
Goodbye summer. September is back, and so is our work routine. Getting back to our frantic daily pace is not easy, but it is certainly not impossible either. Write these 9 steps down so you will be productive after vacation….
Your Sales Team Needs a ‘Scorecard’ for Negotiations
Your sales team is crying out for a ‘scorecard’. Having control of every negotiation is crucial to get your sales teams to meet previously set goals. But… what is exactly this so-called ‘scorecard’? What is a ‘scorecard’? Jim Anderson perfectly…
The Future of Serious Games Through the Lens of Mobile Devices
The training sector continues to experience a significant expansion, especially with regard to the serious games market. Mobile platforms substantially contribute to this growth and its adaptation to changing times. The booming market of serious games Virtual reality has been…
A productivity tool for your business: self-management
Self-management is one of the best productivity tools your company can rely on. Knowing how to manage the workload and channel the possible stress generated among the staff, and eventually in the company, is the responsibility and obligation of the…
The formula for productivity: Knowing how to choose what not to do today
The formula for productivity is in your hands and you have not discovered it yet, but we are going to tell you about it. It is not some magic equation or universal recipe. It is much easier than that and…
Win win negotiation by getting to know the other party
One of the most important keys to bring negotiations to a successful conclusion is information. Obtaining the necessary data to better understand the other party is essential to properly prepare the process of conflict resolution. Today we are telling you…
5 great benefits of game-based learning in soft skills training
There are a lot of benefits we can draw from game-based learning on the learning and development of management skills or soft skills. Despite the countless reasons showing how good an impact gamification has on learning, there is still some…
Watergate: 7 leadership behaviours you should never forget
This next 9th of August it will be 41 years since North American president Richard Nixon resigned because of the so-called “Watergate scandal”. That incident is still remembered, but little is known about the leadership mistakes made in Washington during…
Gamification in business as an antidote for lack of motivation
The emergence of gamification in corporate training has come to be the solution to one of the big problems businesses nowadays need to face: lack of motivation of employees. And without motivation, new concerns arise: lack of commitment, negative attitude,…
How to be productive and enjoy your vacation at the same time
Beach and productivity are not incompatible. Today, we want to show you how to be productive while you enjoy your vacation. 1. Farewell to stress If there is one thing that characterizes vacations, it is saying goodbye to routine. Getting…
Business Negotiation Strategies: How Your Mind Affects Your Goals
How our mind affects negotiation strategies is a question to consider when seeking any kind of agreement. When faced with a negotiation, we always start with some goal we want to achieve in mind. That goal, somewhat abstract, will be…
Corporate training pricing vs traditional and e-learning training
The reasonable game-based training pricing, together with its efficacy and surprising value to improve course finalization ratios, make of this methodology a real solution on the corporate training market. But… can it actually be more economical compared to the rest…
Simulators in Corporate Training
Corporate training with simulators can make us acquire skills through virtual learning, with no risks and in an effective way. Many simulators are used in company environments to allow workers in an organization to improve the knowledge of their business…
10 Ways To Boost Your Selling Skills From The Godfather
Improving your selling skills and learning new negotiation techniques is key if you to achieve success in business. The world-famous The Godfather trilogy, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on the novel by Mario Puzo, has become one of the…
8 leadership lessons you can learn from Julius Caesar
If there ever was a most characteristic military leader in history, that was Julius Caesar. Beyond his undeniable ability for strategy, the roman general outstood because of his personal leadership lessons over his army, to whom he knew how to…
How to learn better? Playing a game
We all want to learn. We all need to grow. And how can you optimize training? How to learn better? The best way to do it is through a game. Keep on reading and find out why. Assessment tools The…
7 habits of highly productive people before a phone call
Throughout the day, a lot of us make many a phone call. Not all of them are productive. In some jobs, the phone is also a basic communication tool, turning calls and the way we manage them into something decisive…