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Our skills library is full of useful information. You can search for keywords in the boxes below, and even filter what kind of medium you like while learning. Are you interested in one topic in particular? Visit our guided learnings about teamwork, presenting and writing. You can always check out the upcoming workshops to see if the skill you want to improve is available this quarter.

Blog Iris Huisman: Why skills are so important for career success
Technical skills are far more tangible than soft skills, but nonetheless soft skills are crucial for your career. You may believe that there is nothing wrong with your soft skills, and probably you are right. During your life your soft skills have been developed by your environment from birth onwards. However, have you deliberately developed one soft skill more than another? Not always!
3 Simple Steps to Smoother Transitions in Your Speech
When presenting you might have to cover a variety of topics. This guide offers you tips and tricks on how to make smooth transitions between these topics.
Benefits of teamwork: no man is an island

Behind every succesful person is a great team of people that works with him or her.

Blog Mylene Frankfort: Workshop Time & Stress Management
Last week I participated during 'de Wervingsdagen' in a workshop called Time & Stress Management. This is what I learned during and from the workshop.
Break your bad habits in active listening
Old habits can be hard to break, since it requires concentration and determination to be an active listener. This video provides 5 tips to break these habits.
Guided Learning for Creative Problem Solving

Whether you are working on a group project or trying to solve an individual problem, it can always be useful to know more on how to actually get good ideas. Look here if you want to know more on how to get these ideas.

Guided Learning: Dealing with conflicts

Do you tend to become uncomfortable when a conflict occurs within your team? Or have you been in a conflict yourself, without knowing how to solve it? A conflict within a team should be solved in a professional manner and this topic guide teaches you how to do that.

Guided Learning: Target audience

This guide is meant for people who want to further improve their ability to target their audience and how to make them actively participate during their presentation.

Guided peer review - Recognize suitable academic words

If you want your text to be peer reviewed with a focus on the use of academic language, read this guide.

Whiteboard Movie: Q&A
This video gives you tips on how to handle the Q&A session, which can be practiced with the corresponding exercise.