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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.

With this free webinar, we invite you to discuss the following questions with us: Why is it important to assess and develop workplace relevant soft skills? Which traditional approaches exist to assess soft skills? Why are games suitable for soft skills training and assessment? How does such game for soft skills training and assessment look like? We are glad to welcome you to the webinar!

One of the aims of DEVELOP is to apply artificial intelligence (AI) planning techniques to recommend learning opportunities for career development. More specifically, DEVELOP aims to identify potential sequences of learning interventions (e.g. eLearning courses, mentorship, changing teams) that will enable an individual to make progress towards the position(s) to which they aspire. This article presents DEVELOP's approach to make plan recommendations scrutable to the individual, which means the recommendations themselves and the reasons for the recommendations should be understandable to human users.