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Learning & Development (L&D) has become increasingly important in Germany, especially in a fast-paced, digitalized working world. Companies rely on flexible and personalized learning approaches such as e-learning, microlearning and social learning to train their employees. The development of human skills and the establishment of mentoring programs are also key components. The return on investment (ROI) plays a decisive role in assessing the effectiveness of these measures and justifying future investments.

Today, human skills are indispensable for a company's success. Find out how soft.fact as a data-based solution strengthens mental health and puts people at the center. #HumanSkills #MentalHealth

More and more people are suffering from burnout. Find out how soft.fact uses measures and scientific analyses to strengthen mental health and help prevent burnout.

Managers must lead and inspire teams and achieve results. Soft facts such as personality, motivation, responsibility, proactivity and self-efficacy are crucial for effective leadership. In this article, we show how these qualities strengthen leadership skills.

Why is a strong, growth-oriented mindset crucial for personal and professional success? The 5 pillars - Values, Resilience, Mindfulness, Learning and Emotional Intelligence - form the basis for a strong mindset. Find out how you can develop your full potential by working on your mindset.

Start your journey of personal and professional development with insights into collaboration, mindset and leadership. Learn how soft.fact increases team performance and satisfaction by measuring human skills. Read our blog post to learn more about the cornerstones of successful collaboration and start your own success story!

Discover the importance of people interaction mining and people intelligence for HR and culture transformation. Learn how data-driven approaches optimize employee engagement, team dynamics and decision making.

People Interaction Mining enables companies to gain valuable insights into interpersonal communication through passive listening techniques. Passive listening collects authentic and unbiased data that can be used to improve customer service, employee satisfaction and marketing strategies.

Gary Chapman's "5 languages of appreciation" in the work context include words of recognition, time together, gifts, helpfulness and physical affection, the latter of which can be replaced by respectful gestures. Using these languages can significantly improve employee motivation and the working atmosphere by enabling personal and effective recognition.

Learn how to work in a more productive and focused way in order to achieve your goals better and faster.

How can we make immeasurable things measurable? Is there anything at all that we cannot measure?

Language is everywhere, whether non-verbal or verbal, it shapes our perception and influences our thinking and interactions. That's why the right language is particularly important in teams!

The negative effects of old-school behaviour in companies not only affect the organization itself, but above all the employees. Read the blog post to find out what impact this has on employees.

Life balance is key. Make sure you keep your different areas of life in balance and you will be happier and more content.

Why is it important to make room for emotions? And how can managers use their emotional intelligence to create a healthy and productive working environment? Here are the answers.

Positive business has an enormous influence on the positive development of team and company dynamics. What are they? Read more here!

In a world that is constantly changing and where decisions often have to be made in a matter of seconds, real-time leadership has become an essential skill for leaders in all sectors. This article aims to explain the key elements of real-time leadership and suggest practical measures to master it effectively.

To mark International Women's Day, we put our (diverse) heads together and thought about why women have it so good at soft.fact. You can find our analysis here. Read it now.

Proactively increasing the well-being of employees is unfortunately still the exception rather than the rule. Yet there are simple but effective levers to increase the mental health of employees. You can find out what these are in the blog post.

Check-ins strengthen the sense of unity and the mental health of employees - if you do it right. You can find out how to do this with three simple questions in this blog post.

Self-realization, self-optimization, goal identification and responsibility as levers for higher employee motivation. How do you achieve this? Find out more in this self-reflection.

Learn which measures create a supportive environment for the remaining team members after termination and at the same time enable a positive development that can strengthen the company's success in the long term.

In today's globalized world, it is important that companies create the space for political exchange without jeopardizing the corporate culture. Learn about the pros and cons of this approach and possible guidelines for leaders.

Integrating new employees into an organization is a critical process that affects not only their productivity and satisfaction, but also the overall team dynamic and company culture. A well-designed onboarding process ensures that new team members receive the necessary resources, information and support to be successful in their new role. That's why we show you what to look out for in the three core areas (methodological, social, technical) of good onboarding.

Companies that proactively organize pre-onboarding make the actual onboarding process easier and can score points with employees by providing information and structure, as pre-onboarding creates security and expresses anticipation, which is synonymous with appreciation. Pre-onboarding also promotes successful integration into the new team, which also increases productivity more quickly.

Carol Dweck, an American psychologist and professor at Stanford University, found that people live their lives with a Growth Mindset or a Fixed Mindset. People with a Growth Mindset believe that their talents and abilities will change if they develop them in a targeted way.

Sustainable employee retention is crucial for your team's success. Here you will learn how to identify and resolve silent conflicts in your team structure, how to increase the loyalty of your team members with team development and, last but not least, how to promote employee loyalty in the long term.

These are our top 5 tips on how to make your mindset even more agile.

Here are 4 signs you can tell you have a rigid team mindset and may be looking at agile.

Get 4 soft.fact hacks to take your team confidence to the next level

Here are 4 signs that indicate you should strengthen your trust in the team.

Learn 5 elementary reasons why your collaboration is enhanced by an agile mindset.

Learn now why your team success depends on your team trust.

Get our top 5 prevention tips for team burnout

9 tips to take your team cohesion to the next level.

Here are 5 signs of how you can recognize burnout. Let's go!

Find out why the topic of burnout is highly relevant in today's working world and why you should deal with it as a team.

Get our soft.fact expert tips to strengthen your self-efficacy as a team.

That's why we're betting on the Big 5.

These factors characterize a successful team.

Find out why a high-performing team is always a team that sticks together.

Many people know a diagnosis only as the result of a medical opinion. This primarily takes physiological characteristics into account. The relevant characteristics - the symptoms - are recorded and evaluated. In clinical-psychological diagnostics, the procedure is analogous.

We believe that the success of a team is not only determined by the professional competencies of its members. Much more, combinations of other important characteristics determine how well challenges can be mastered.

In everyday life, we quickly form an image of other people. We observe others and derive a repertoire of sensations and behavior. This is very important for us in a social context.

We all know that each and every one of us has our own personality, lives our own values, takes on a certain role - whether in our private or professional lives. The way we handle certain things is also very specific.

This time has given us all the chance to reorient ourselves, to be open to new things. We have become aware that trust has become even more important, especially in the home office.

If you search online for "personality test" to learn more about yourself, you will usually find what you are looking for quickly. This also applies to other tests that can be used to describe characteristics about one's own person.

Every day, we resolve to take care of the things that are important today. But then something always comes up, whether it's an urgent project, an important phone call, or a colleague you just want to help quickly.