This month’s Speexx updates focus on recognition, skills investment, and the role of communication capability in complex work environments. Here’s what’s new:
Speexx receives the 2026 Comenius EduMedia Medal
Speexx has received the 2026 Comenius EduMedia Medal, the highest distinction awarded by the Comenius Awards for digital educational media. Following a Seal in 2025, this year’s Medal recognizes Speexx for didactic quality, content, usability, and design.
Speexx and ATM win Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Award
Speexx and ATM – Azienda Trasporti Milanesi have received a Bronze Award in the Best Coaching Program category at the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards. The award recognizes their joint initiative, which uses personalized business coaching to help young leaders address real workplace challenges and strengthen their leadership capabilities.
What does it cost when businesses stop investing in skills?
Training budgets are visible. The cost of underinvestment is much harder to see until it starts affecting performance. A new Speexx whitepaper looks at what organizations risk losing when skills development is delayed or cut, including the effects of underdeveloped language skills and insufficient support for managers.
Turning individual skills into organizational capability
Skills data can tell an organization what an individual knows, but that is only part of the performance question. Speexx co-founder Armin Hopp explores Dave Ulrich’s Human Capability Model and the distinction between individual development and the capabilities an organization can apply consistently across teams and markets. He also examines how communication capability connects language development, coaching, mentoring, intercultural programs, and assessment with the work people need to do.
Building language capability for international rail teams
For railway employees working across borders, language capability is part of operational competence. This Speexx article examines how digital language training can support the specific communication demands of international rail operations, from safety-related exchanges and fault reporting to passenger communication. It also looks at why general proficiency levels alone are not enough and how role-based practice can connect language development with real operating tasks.
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About Speexx
Speexx is the #1 platform for digital people development. Speexx uses groundbreaking AI technology and a global network of top coaches to provide corporate language training, skills assessment and business coaching services to large organizations everywhere – all integrated with the customer’s people tech and within a safe online environment. More than 1,500 leading brands and organizations use Speexx for more brilliant language skills training and business coaching services that deliver timely results. With more than 8 million users, Speexx is one of the most widely used corporate online solutions for business coaching, skills assessment, and language training in all major business languages, with ongoing support in 13 languages.
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