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Raluca Cristescu

Raluca Cristescu

Raluca Cristescu has over ten years of experience as a corporate trainer, focused mainly on soft skills for customer service and direct sales. She also enjoys writing about marketing and sharing best practices with knowledge entrepreneurs.

What AI has in store for the future of corporate training

One of the most intriguing recent headlines was about a very beautiful robot named Sophia who became an official citizen of Saudi Arabia. I am using ‘who’ instead of ‘that’ because her humanoid nature...

4 Great tips for developing a learning culture

One of the most frequent pieces of advice given to learning & development professionals who seek to make their mark on the organization is that they should lay the ground for building a learning cultu...

3 Tips to improve learning transfer that instructional designers can use anytime

If we were to define learning transfer, it is the learner’s ability to successfully apply the knowledge, skills and competencies acquired in one or several learning modules in their work. This should ...

E-learning for leadership development is on the rise

It’s the general consensus that organizations nowadays need effective leaders who are in sync with the strategic objectives and core values. Unfortunately, how learning and development teams go about ...

Why e-learning is perfect for introverts

When advocating the usefulness of e-learning, a lot of arguments are brought to the table. It is a lot more flexible than classroom training, it is engaging, cost-effective and is not confined by geog...

The most important things to consider when onboarding new managers

Being new at anything is both a stressful and an exciting situation. When it comes to management positions, the excitement is most often shadowed by all the challenges they pose. This is why onboardin...

5 keys to online learning success

Today’s workforce is very different than it was ten, maybe twenty years ago. Time is perceived differently as there doesn’t seem to be enough of it anymore. Everything happens with great speed, schedu...

On leadership development for Millennials

Their supporters describe Millennials as free-spirited, self-aware youngsters who know what they want and what they are worth and feel very strongly about their autonomy. Their detractors, on the othe...

First and foremost — get to know your learners

Television networks constantly monitor their audience ratings. They will often brag about the “golden minute”, those magical sixty seconds when unprecedented numbers of people are watching a certain c...

How to use stories for workplace learning

Humans have been storytellers since the beginning of time. Old Native people who preferred the oral tradition as a means to pass on knowledge to the next generations knew what they were doing. The Dru...

The science of teamwork and true leadership

Teamwork and collaboration are qualities that inevitably show up in any job description when companies publish ads for hiring new people. Businesses spend a lot of money on team-building exercises, tr...

Learning and sleep or why you should let your employees nap

Sleep, learning, and memory are very intricate psychological phenomena that to this day are not fully comprehended. However, there are quite a few studies that prove that the quantity, and more import...

Adaptive learning – perfectly tailored to the individual

Department store suits are all right but those that are tailored directly on the person who will be wearing them are ten times better. Of course, getting a suit done at a tailor’s means several visits...

How many types of mentoring are there?

This post has been updated on July 8, 2020. Mentoring is a big thing in today’s business world but very few people know where and how it all started. Mentor is actually a Greek mythical character. He ...

The role of SMEs in e-learning – cooking up the perfect course

In the earlier days of humanity, if somebody needed guidance or information, they asked the village or tribe elder and whatever he said, went. Even if the answer was “look for two white raccoons climb...

Why leadership development matters

You’d think that becoming the boss is an exhilarating, wonderful time. That may be the case for a few brief moments but actually, according to a wellbeing and health site, it is number four in the top...

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