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DDI and Strivr partner to pioneer leadership development in Virtual Reality

STRIVR

Leaders will be able to build and sharpen their leadership skills like never before by immersing themselves in deeply realistic simulations, thanks to a partnership between DDI and Strivr. chief executive officer of DDI. These skills help to prevent burnout, support digital transformation, retain talent, and much more.

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Tips for Running Mentorship Programs for Women

Chronus

Skill development. According to a global DDI study , 67 percent of women rate mentorship as highly important in helping to advance and grow their careers. According to the DDI study, 63 percent of women reported that they have never had a formal mentor — and in many cases, women are not being asked to provide mentorship.

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The Truth About Leadership Skill Gaps

CLO Magazine

That includes leadership skills. Some skills — communication, coaching, execution — are always important and never go out of style. Money Skills’ Leaders Need. These are the “money skills” that correlate with a healthy bottom line. Getting Leader Skills on Track. Assess context alongside skills.

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VR for executive-level training: 5 key areas

STRIVR

“People call leadership skills ‘soft skills,’ but they’re actually some of the hardest stuff to do. ” — Verity Creedy, Product Management Director, DDI Leaders are made, not born. Creedy says, “Empathy is an incredibly important skill for leaders to be able to manage.”

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3 Strategies to Fuel Your Leadership Pipeline (Video)

Infopro Learning

In addition, a systematic focus on defining the knowledge, skills and related development required by leaders as they move from one level to the next is often nonexistent. DDI 2014 Global Leadership Forecast. Here are 3 strategies to consider in nurturing that all-important pipeline: 1.

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Top 4 soft skills employees are developing in VR

STRIVR

Enterprise leaders today are faced with a unique and growing challenge around building soft skills in their organizations. . Around the globe, corporate learning experts are pushing the need for soft skills training. We need to take these ‘power skills’ seriously, and build experiential programs that start at the top.”

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HR professionals: Here’s what you can do with a VR headset

STRIVR

Our customers’ HR organizations are finding the best way to use a VR headset has been to train for critical skills and needs pertaining to health and safety, operational efficiency, customer service, and soft skills within the business. Here are four use cases in which your colleagues are using VR to train for these skills.

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