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Serious Games: Video Games Revolutionize Corporate Training

Mirco TURCOJuly 7, 2026
Serious games have great potential for development in the corporate world. These interactive video games allow students to practice specific skills, achieve concrete goals, and acquire transferable skills.
Gamification and Soft Skills: Serious Games for the Future of Education

Gamification and Soft Skills: Why Serious Games Are the Future of Education

Mirco TURCOJune 29, 2026
In the contemporary educational landscape, we are witnessing a frustrating paradox: classrooms are full of students who are hyper-competent in hard skills (formulas, notions, digital skills), but dramatically unprepared on an emotional, relational, and adaptive level.
The Evaluation Paradox: Why the Dunning-Kruger Effect Stunting Organizational Growth

The Evaluation Paradox: Why the Dunning-Kruger Effect Stunting Organizational Growth

Renato VOTTAJune 1, 2026
In many organizations, performance management is perceived as a lengthy, complex, and even costly process. It requires time to define objectives, develop indicators, compile reports, organize meetings, and support people's development.
Training in the company: the

Training in the workplace: the "grey area" of workplace well-being that leaders need to know

Renato VOTTAMay 18, 2026
In modern organizational dynamics, stress, burnout, and mobbing are often discussed. However, there is a form of workplace discomfort that is equally harmful but far less well-known and more difficult to identify: straining
Learning Agility: The Soft Skill Everyone Overlooks

Learning Agility: The Soft Skill Everyone Overlooks

Mirco TURCOMay 11, 2026
Hard skills have an expiration date. According to data from the World Economic Forum and Deloitte, the "lifespan" of a technical skill has dropped from about 30 years (in 1970) to less than 5 years today! So what would be worth investing in? Certainly not fancy programming languages ​​or special certifications, but rather an often completely overlooked soft skill: the ability to be "hungry"...
Biases and stereotypes in the workplace: how to recognize and manage them in organizations

Biases and stereotypes in the workplace: how to recognize and manage them in organizations

Renato VOTTAApril 14, 2026
When we talk about bias in the workplace, something strange and unexpected often happens: everyone nods and declares it's there, but few actually believe they have it. Bias is always someone else's problem: the hierarchical boss, the inflexible colleague, the outdated organization. We rarely consider that bias is, first and foremost, a normal functioning of the workplace.
The Availability Paradox and the

The trap of always saying yes — and the strategic “no”

Mirco TURCOFebruary 24, 2026
We have grown up with the cultural belief that being endlessly accommodating is the key to success and to maintaining harmony with colleagues. We’ve internalized the idea that saying “yes” to every request is synonymous with being proactive.
Emotional Intelligence: why it makes a difference

Emotional Intelligence: why it makes a difference

Mirco TURCOFebruary 12, 2026
Technical skills alone are no longer enough. A growing number of companies are recognising the true value of soft skills. Among these, emotional intelligence stands out as a key factor in enhancing performance, fostering collaboration among colleagues, and supporting individual wellbeing.
Leaders Eat Last: how psychological safety turns groups into successful teams

Leaders Eat Last: how psychological safety turns groups into successful teams

Renato VOTTAFebruary 3, 2026
Why do some teams work and others don't?
We often observe groups that, despite having similar resources, similar goals, and comparable contexts, operate under opposing psychological conditions, resulting in huge differences in the results achieved.
HR trends for 2026—Designing work, creating value, less admin, more strategy

HR trends for 2026—Designing work, creating value, less admin, more strategy

Renato VOTTADecember 16, 2025
The Human Resources 2026 trends emerging from major international reports outline a profound change: Human Resources are no longer called upon simply to manage people, but to design, or rather redesign, work. 
Today's most in-demand soft skills

Today's most in-demand soft skills

Mirco TURCOOctober 29, 2025
The profound impact of soft skills on employment, success, efficiency, effectiveness and overall performance is not to be underestimated. Equally important is the role transversal skills play in building teams that are resilient, competitive and adaptable. These skills are the essential pillars of a healthy organisational culture focused on wellbeing.
Soft skills: the true mission of HR departments

Soft skills: the true mission of HR departments

Mirco TURCOOctober 24, 2025
Demonstrating leadership, managing stress effectively and practising active listening is neither simple nor straightforward. Soft skills are difficult to measure, unlike hard skills. Treating these abilities as if they fit into fixed, well-defined parameters or ranges is a serious misconception.
Soft skills and personal success

Soft skills and personal success

Mirco TURCOOctober 20, 2025
Beneath the rhetoric surrounding transversal skills and workplace dynamics lies, in truth, a complex and multifaceted world made up simply of people. Human beings who live, work, interact, adapt and sometimes merely survive. In today's world, the role of purely “hard” knowledge has become relatively marginal. This shift, however...
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