Accel5
Accel5™ is an informal learning platform designed to enhance the soft skills of busy employees, focusing on areas such as communication, leadership, and emotional intelligence. It provides a range of resources, including business book summaries, videos, and articles, offering insights from leading business authors and executives to facilitate continuous, self-directed learning. The platform is highly customizable, allowing organizations to integrate their branding and core competencies, ensuring users can quickly access relevant content. Accel5 emphasizes microlearning, with content that can be consumed in under five minutes, making it suitable for employees to engage with during brief breaks or commutes.
The platform continually updates its offerings, ensuring that users have access to the latest trends and best practices in business. Additionally, it features exclusive videos and articles from renowned sources, including Harvard Business Review Press, providing actionable insights applicable to a diverse range of employees. Accel5 aims to support ongoing professional development in a fast-paced working environment, making it easier for individuals to stay informed and enhance their skills efficiently.
Accel5
Accel5™ is an informal learning solution designed to help busy employees improve soft skills such as communication, leadership, and emotional intelligence. Business book summaries, videos, and articles feature key insights from the top minds in business, and support continuous, self-directed learning by providing best practices from leading business authors, coaches, and executives.

A User-Friendly, Customizable Platform
Accel5 is completely customizable to meet the specific needs of any business. Companies can incorporate their branding, logos, and design for a completely custom experience. They can highlight their core competencies on the homepage so that users can find the information they need quickly and easily. Additionally, Accel5 content can be integrated into any learning management system, SharePoint, or other platform to provide users with seamless access to information from multiple points of entry and one-click access through a quick and easy Single Sign-On.
Continual Learning in Five Minutes or Less
Accel5 was created with content that can be consumed in under five minutes a day, and is refreshed and updated constantly to ensure relevance. With this microlearning platform, employees can develop their soft skills without spending hours or days in training seminars. Accel5 features summaries of essential business books, exclusive video clips, and articles that highlight the main points of a lesson quickly and effectively. Employees can read or watch this content on their lunch break, during their commute, or between meetings. With Accel5, continual learning is possible, even for the busiest employee. Users can explore topics such as communication, leadership, emotional intelligence and much more, all in less than five minutes. Concepts and ideas are diverse and actionable so that employees can put lessons into practice immediately, staying ahead of the curve on new trends and developments.
Tips and Insights from the Top Minds in Business
With Accel5, managers and employees can access new videos not available anywhere else on the web, including useful insights from some of the top minds in business. Users can read book summaries from top authors and publishers, including exclusives from Harvard Business Review Press, which are summarized with a focus on key takeaways and constantly updated for relevance. Other content, such as full-text articles from key business magazines, provides further insight into a specific topic or competency, and is relevant and useful for all employees — from millennials to seasoned executives.
About EBSCO
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