Blog for Better Soft Skills – Faculty of Skills | Marijn de Geus (3)

21st century skills: in 5 steps from buzzword to better soft skills development

The sense that students need more than just academic intellectual ability is growing. How to prime them for success in this century?

Improving intercultural communication in 5 steps

More people from different cultures are working together nowadays. Without the required experience, this will often go wrong. How to go about this?

5 more examples of brain learning in online training programs

The popularity of brain learning creates increasingly more translations of findings in neuro science that are being used in online training programs.

Video: Dr. Ilse van Liempt uses TrainTool: "You can see huge improvements"

Teaching academic soft skills in a classroom is inefficient and ineffective, dr. Ilse van Liempt noticed. Watch her experience with online training!

Evaluating a training program like Kirkpatrick: 4 modern levels

Are you aware of the success of a training program? Donald Kirkpatrick wondered about this in 1954 already and developed 4 levels of training evaluation.

Video: opening our own studio

29th of September was the day: we proudly opened our own studio for Video Role Plays! We present you a short video summary if you couldn't be there.

'Academic soft skills should be developed through blended learning'

A short video summary of the 'Active Learning & Academic Soft Skills' event at Utrecht University.

An inconvenient truth: the choice every trainer has to make

A non-profiled trainer who keeps doing the same thing, has a problem. How do you make sure your expertise is being requested and implemented? Make a decision!