Brandon Pittser

When we talk about future-facing skills, communication is always near the top of the list. Whether you’re negotiating terms in a group project, explaining your reasoning to a teacher, or pitching a creative idea to a client, being able to clearly express what you mean (and mean what you express) is an indispensable skill. But…

Some of today’s most engaging professional training tools don’t look like training tools at all. They look like games. But beneath their lush graphics and captivating interfaces, they offer structured, skill-based challenges drawn straight from real-world roles. The best of these simulators recreate tasks and mindsets, whether that’s the precise rhythm of a rail dispatcher’s…

They don’t call it “going to play” for a living – but maybe they should. Across industries, employers are finding that the skills honed through play – skills like creative thinking, collaboration, leadership – are exactly the ones needed to meet the demands of a changing workforce. Check out this recent evidence that when it…