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When the meeting gets moved up at the last minute, and the stakes are higher than they planned for, teams walk into the room feeling unprepared. Not because they lack language skills, but because they lack the confidence to hold their own. In this clip, Gino Micacchi (VP GTM Strategy and Growth, Busuu) breaks down what we call the performance gap — the space between what people know and what they can actually deliver when it counts. 55% of professionals simplify their message under pressure. They know the content. They just can't communicate clearly when it matters most. It's the reason most L&D reporting looks healthy while performance in the room doesn't match it. Completion rates don't capture hesitation in the moment, and time spent learning doesn't capture the moment someone stays quiet instead of speaking up. If this clip resonates, the full conversation can be watched live on Wednesday 22 July, with Gino Micacchi and Jennie Drimmer. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eqcWEMmA #LearningAndDevelopment #HRStrategy #FutureOfWork #WorkplacePerformance #Webinar

🌎 From Europe to LATAM: Carrefour expands its global partnership with Busuu! Following our success in Europe, we are thrilled to welcome Grupo Carrefour Brasil and Carrefour Argentina to the journey. 🚀 This expansion brings Busuu to thousands of new employees, empowering them to break down language barriers and collaborate seamlessly with global partners and colleagues. Welcome to Busuu. We're glad you're here. 💙

A course completion certificate won't tell you whether your sales team can navigate a live negotiation, or whether your teams can share ideas clearly in an international meeting. That gap is why we're hosting a live session on Wednesday 22 July: "𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗜𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸?" AI has changed what's scarce. Knowledge is free — it delivers information on demand. Judgement, communication confidence and cultural intelligence aren’t free, and only build through real human interaction. Join Busuu's Gino Micacchi and Jennie Drimmer for a live discussion on: 👉 why learning doesn't always translate into performance 👉 what AI changes, and what it doesn't 👉 how leading organisations are measuring capability instead of completion 🗓️ 22 July, 11:00 AM CEST. Register here to secure your seat: https://lnkd.in/eqcWEMmA

La conoscenza è ovunque. Le competenze no. Questa frase di Giulia Burrascano, Busuu, è quella con cui siamo tornati a casa ieri dopo il Learning & Development #TRENDS a Firenze, ospitato da La Marzocco. Grazie a HRC Community - MyHRGoal per aver creato uno spazio di confronto vero su un solo tema: cosa significa davvero investire nelle persone. Tre cose che ci portiamo a casa da questa mattinata: 👉 L'IA aiuta, ma non sostituisce il giudizio, la sicurezza in una lingua o la lettura del contesto culturale (quello resta un lavoro umano). 👉 La formazione più efficace non è quella con più contenuti, ma quella più vicina al momento in cui le persone devono davvero performare. 👉 Il modo di guidare le persone deve cambiare alla stessa velocità del contesto in cui lavorano. Non può restare fermo. E grazie a chi ha condiviso il palco con noi, ognuno con una risposta diversa alla stessa domanda: Michela Nardini, La Marzocco Gea Villa, TP Giulia Abalos, Var Group Alessandro Antonini, Piaggio Group Davide Maiello, Camst Group 💙 Un grazie di cuore a Stella Privitello, che con la sua energia ha reso questa mattinata ancora più speciale. Sei aziende, sei progetti, una sola certezza: la formazione oggi non è più un nice-to-have. A presto per il prossimo appuntamento. 🚀 Grazie anche a tutto il team Busuu presente ieri a Firenze: Nicola Carboni, Antonio Baiano, Enrico Cadamuro #hrcommunity #LearningAndDevelopment

Most L&D programmes measure the wrong things, because their systems were built to track activity and not effect. For example... a 100% completion rate is not a performance signal. It’s a measure of attendance. So here are three things we'd want every L&D leader to sit with before their next board conversation...

A global medical technology company. Engineers, sales, supply chain... spread across markets that don't share a first language. The challenge wasn't a lack of skill. It was the moment a meeting needed to move fast, and not everyone in the room could keep up. That's the moment Enovis brought Busuu into their teams. Not as a benefit on a list. As something their people could reach for before the call that mattered, not after it. 🚀 We'll share more on what's changed as the programme grows. For now: glad to be working with a team that takes performance, not just training, seriously.  #LanguageLearning #Partnership #LearnindAndDevelopment #MedTech 

Il 9 luglio parliamo di come la lingua diventa performance 👇 Giulia Burrascano sarà al prossimo appuntamento di Learning & Development #TRENDS per raccontare come l’intelligenza artificiale sta ridefinendo l’apprendimento linguistico in azienda. Dalla lingua alla performance: un nuovo modo di sviluppare competenze linguistiche attraverso un coaching one-to-one, accessibile a tutta l’organizzazione. 📍 La Marzocco, Firenze 📅 9 luglio, 11:00-13:00 Grazie a HRC Community - MyHRGoal per lo spazio. Ci vediamo a Firenze! 🚀 #hrcommunity #LearningAndDevelopment #Busuu

Every company automated the same things this year, but not every company can still have the conversations that matter. What sets organisations apart is what happens between people: trust, empathy, judgment, and being able to communicate. #AI can translate words, summarise meetings and automate workflows. But it can’t always read hesitation, sense tension, or build trust across cultures. And in global teams, that matters. The conversations that don’t happen are often where companies lose the most value. The idea that isn’t shared, the question that isn’t asked, or the challenge that isn’t voiced. That's why the organisations that do well won't just be the ones that use AI. They'll be the ones whose people can still talk to each other when it counts. We explore this further in our latest article on the innately human #skills helping businesses succeed in 2026. Read the full article here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eGwhiuDg 💬 What human skill do you think is most important, and is your company building them? #FutureOfWork #AI #HumanSkills #CorporateLearning #GlobalTeams #Busuu

Klarheit. That's the theme of #PMK2026. And in HR, clarity is harder to come by than it sounds.   Clarity about where your people are struggling. Clarity about whether your learning programmes are working. Clarity about what your teams can actually do when the pressure is real, not just what they've completed on a platform.   At Europe's largest #HR congress in 📍Berlin this week, we've been in conversations with HR leaders across the DACH region about exactly this gap: the distance between training activity and real-world performance.   Because your people might have finished the course. But can they hold the meeting, handle the negotiation, or contribute in a room where the working language isn't their own?   That's the clarity gap Busuu is built to close. Great to be at #PMK2026 alongside 1,500 HR professionals thinking hard about what it really takes to make organisations work. 💙   Thank you, Personalmanagementkongress (PMK), for creating the space for conversations worth having. And thank you to the BEST team ever Felix Schuchter, Hivanu Ince, Philip Ballintine, Alina Ríos Mesa, Dylan Cadenhead, Alina Booge 🚀 #PMK2026 #Klarheit #HR #LearningAndDevelopment #Personalmanagement #LanguageLearning #FutureOfWork