News & Events of DEVELOP

In this session "Supporting Career Development for all by Improving Leadership through Adaptive Games", Dr Neil Peirce and Dr Alec Serlie will present an overview of the DEVELOP platform and the current status of the leadership game. Participants will be guided through the game’s assessment mode, detailed reporting, and leadership training features.

DEVELOP offers a personalised learning environment for employees seeking to redirect, design, or further build their career path. This environment allows you to set your own career goals and find out whether you should change jobs based on your competencies, or deal with more responsibility in your current job role. In this article you will learn about the transversal competency clusters in DEVELOP and about the leadership game assisting you in developing this particular competency.

Soft skills like communication and leadership are usually measured in roleplays or questionnaires. A more contemporary and less costly way of assessing and training soft skills is by using games. Tune into DEVELOP’s free webinar on September 12th, 2017, to learn more about game-based assessments.

Nowadays, developing an agile mindset is crucial for all organizations longing to sustain their presence in the market and boost their profitability. This article provides some ideas on how to create an organizational learning culture, where learning happens for everyone, every day, leading to increased job satisfaction and confidence in handling oncoming challenges.

How do you prevent the recommendations from the system (about career goal, or suitable learning interventions) and its assessments (for example about a user’s management style) becoming self-fulfilling prophecies? How can you mitigate the risk of limiting human agency and autonomy, if using such recommendation system? This article provides some first ideas.