Editor’s note: Using the Badgeville toolkit, developers can reward cloud user behaviors in realtime by leveraging mechanics, such as points, achievements and missions. They can also provide recognition and rank to make users feel special or smart by leveraging mechanics, such as levels, tracks and leaderboards.
Editor’s note: Study says mindfulness is the best way to really know ourselves.
Editor’s note: It is a $20m a year industry and it is harmless and potentially useful if you’re aware of its limitations. But organisations still use the MBTI as if it were infallible. Why?
Editor’s note: Research shows that employees feel they are good at doing what they are told. But is this good enough for businesses looking to grow and innovate? Doing a task and seeing possibilities beyond that task could be very powerful.
Editor’s note: Research into skills in the UK’s tourism and hospitality sector shows leadership is number one requirement.
Editor’s note: Researchers show that inhibiting the prefrontal cortex – the brain’s thought ‘filter’ can lead to more creativity.
Editor’s note: Survey of 750 L&D professionals shows concern over budgets but pay remains stable.
Editor’s note: How connections between basic survival functions, social and emotional reactions to the world, and creative impulses impact learning.
Editor’s note: Researchers at the University of Toronto have shown that playing shooting or driving videogames, even for a relatively short time, improves visual search ability.
Learning and talent analyst Elearnity is launching a research programme to evaluate customer satisfaction levels…
Editor’s note: Forget whether a schedule is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. Even if a project ends up months behind it probably did several important things, says Scott Berkun.
Editor’s note: Thinking about the monetary value of our time prevents us from being able to enjoy those moments when we’re not working, according to research.
Editor’s note: What does meta analysis of 46 individual studies that featured 12,883 employees tell us about working from home?
Editor’s note: A doctoral project says there is no difference in the leadership styles of men and women and that in groups comprised of both genders, an androgynous leadership style was found to be the best for creating a climate for innovation.
Editor’s note: Research shows that body language can be seen as a set of innate biological responses that have evolved over time.