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Prioritizing your roles can help you decide how best to manage your time. By APA Committee on Women in Psychology Workplaces often place a disproportionate burden on female workers. That includes workloads as well as emotional and relational labor within the workplace. Historically, women have also been responsible for the majority of work at home.

A long long time ago people believed that the Sun orbits the Earth. Some time ago people believed that light can only happen during day time. Not so long ago people believed that we only use around 10% of our brain capacity and that once a neuron dies, the brain loses it forever. Geography and

Work plays a significant part in all our lives. Our earnings ensure that the lights stay on, there’s food on the table and the rainy-day pot is full. It is no easy task to achieve work-life balance in today’s unpredictable and fast-paced business world. As we grow increasingly more connected through technology and social media,

COVID-19 and the global shift to remote work has made many employers more understanding of the need for work-life balance, even as it made that balance harder to achieve. And this has implications for the available talent pool. The COVID-19 crisis revealed several unexpected positives over the last few months: it proved, for one thing,

One of the most significant decisions any international company must make is how they want their employees to communicate with each other. Developing a corporate language strategy is the key to breaking down communication barriers and building a truly global and collaborative organization. This strategy must start from the top of the organization and cascade

Birth, marriage, divorce and moving house – the often-cited most stressful moments in anyone’s life. Well, there is a fifth – being involved in a merger or acquisition. HR and L&D play a vital role in any M&A planning process and if involved correctly can have an incredibly positive impact on a merger or acquisition

For millennials perusing the job market, being given the opportunity to learn languages has serious stature in 2019. In an age when monolingualism puts employees at a disadvantage, companies are encouraged to provide digital and online language learning courses to attract, retain and develop millennial talent. Millennials are reshaping the world of corporate training and

The pace of life continues to accelerate relentlessly. New trends, fashions, diets, etc. continue to come out, replacing established norms or customs. Nothing reflects this better than technology, especially the rapidly evolving internet and mobile telephony, and how they impact our use of the English language. TEXT SPEAK The 1980s saw the introduction of the

At school and university, knowledge is valued in itself, and learners’ success is measured purely in terms of test scores. But in corporate language training, the gold standard of mastery is not a final exam, but the learner’s use of the target language in real work and life situations. Here, success means something different for

Have you ever wondered whether it would be worthwhile to have your older employees learn a new language, out of concern that age and language learning have an inverse correlation? Read on to find out why it is never too late to start, why it may indeed be better to start as a working professional,