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Using VR in Training for Older Workers – Advantages and Considerations
Virtual reality (VR) is becoming more accessible and increasingly popular as a training tool, with low-cost and easy to use headsets and technology. Its effectiveness has been demonstrated in a variety of industries such as surgical training, manufacturing, and construction (Carruth, 2017). Virtual reality offers a highly immersive and engaging [...]
VMS trainer software review
When looking to train new staff, students, or anyone in between, it is paramount to find fresh and attractive ways to portray this knowledge, as to keep the learning mind from becoming disinterested. The introduction of new technologies such as the ever flourishing VR and AR scene has allowed us [...]
The Future Of Team Building Is VR
Team building is the first step that needs to be taken when striving for developing high performance teams. A good amount of field research has showcased that team traits such as better interpersonal relationships, increased creativity, improved decision making and problem solving, are boosted through the practice of team –building [...]
15 best HoloLens 2 apps
If you have finally jumped on board with Microsoft’s new flagship AR headset, the HoloLens 2, it is useful to know what kind of killer apps are available to make it worth your while. Here are a few of our favourite HoloLens 2 apps and games. [...]
Pico Neo 2 Eye Review
When it comes to the daunting task of picking a VR headset for business purposes, there are so many parameters to take into account when making your decision; price, portability, power, battery life and list of applications to name a few. The Pico Neo 2 Eye, priced at $899 and [...]
VR transforms the recruitment landscape
Riding the next wave in talent acquisition Technology is continuously bringing to the table so many fresh ways for today’s industries to reach new limits and beat competition. This trend is exceptionally apparent within the recruiting industry, wherein virtual reality (VR) and augmented (AR) technologies hold the power to immensely [...]
VR events redefine organizational connectivity
The COVID outbreak has perhaps shifted fundamentally the way companies, communities and individuals view workspaces and work related activities. As countries scramble to protect their people it seems that the reality of social distancing prescriptions and travel restrictions has rushed things towards a technology driven and technology assisted work [...]
Designing leadership development programmes; a team-based approach
In need of a new approach Just like “a box of chocolates” there are several distinctive leadership styles in play today (see previous article Leadership Models: An Overview ), ranging from transactional and transformational styles to adaptive and visionary ones. With such a broad palette to work with, a natural [...]
Leadership models: An overview
A “box of chocolates” At some point in our life everyone might encounter the challenge of having to lead and manage a smaller or larger group of people towards a common goal (Patel, 2017). The way we lead, is nothing more and nothing less than a pattern of specific behaviours [...]
COVID-19 and the remote revolution
With around a third of the world’s population now under some form of lockdown due to the impact of coronavirus, businesses and their employees have had to quickly adapt to the ways of remote working. Many millions are facing the sudden challenge of reaching and maintaining their usual levels of [...]
Team Transparency: A delicate but winning formula
Beyond logistics In contemporary tech-driven, dynamic markets, jobs have become even more complex and agile. Agility requires collective intelligence, that is people working together in innovative -sometimes disruptive- ways. Indeed, firms’ revenue and sustained competitive advantage are now realized through teamwork, not 'lone wolfs'. What is more, organizational success [...]
Could VR be the future of conferences?
For centuries, new technology has been used to overcome big challenges in times of pressing need, creating opportunities out of crises, and it seems that history is now repeating itself once again. With much of the world’s population forced into unfamiliar remote working conditions (for a very good reason, of [...]