How to get the most out of the digital learning offer with the right settings.
Set Up Your Personal Learning Environment
In the final part of this series, we focus on how to configure your personal learning environment in Skillsoft for maximum impact. With the right settings, you’ll receive relevant course suggestions and tailored recommendations that perfectly align with your role, interests, and professional goals. This ensures you get the most out of the platform and can advance with confidence.
My Learning – Your Gateway to Learning Success
The "My Learning" dashboard is your personalized hub. It tracks your progress, gives you quick access to essential learning opportunities, and offers recommendations that match your needs. Clear, concise insights into your learning journey keep your goals front and center, guiding you toward success.
Role Advisor – Your Career Compass
The Role Advisor is like a navigator for your professional development. It helps you define your role, discover trending topics, and receive tailored learning suggestions across multiple formats – so you can focus on the skills that matter most.
Skill Benchmarks – Your Roadmap for Targeted Learning
With Skill Benchmarks, you can assess your abilities against the most in-demand skills. This diagnostic gives you a clear starting point and unlocks personalized recommendations for growth. Your results open the door to targeted microlearning, hands-on practice labs, and skill-based learning paths designed to close gaps and keep you moving forward.
Playlists – Your Personalized Content Collections
Playlists let you curate your own collections of resources – from individual videos to entire channels. You can organize, reorder, and share them to suit your learning style. This makes it easy to keep relevant content at your fingertips and collaborate with colleagues on shared goals.
Learn Together – Collaboration That Accelerates Skills
The Learn Together feature invites colleagues to join your learning journey. By working in a group, skill development becomes more engaging, interactive, and motivating. You can exchange perspectives, celebrate milestones, and reinforce knowledge retention through collaboration – while tracking each other’s progress and applying new skills more effectively in daily work.
Skillsoft is available via Peoplenet, directly at http://peoplenet.percipio.com/, and through the mobile app for smartphones – ideal for learning on the go.
If you’d like to revisit the key information about Skillsoft, an explanatory video is available at any time.
11-02-2026
Learn more about the AI-powered features of Skillsoft’s extensive learning library for Bertelsmann employees.
Skillsoft’s cutting-edge AI tools, including automated search and intelligent conversational guidance, are transforming the way we learn. By making knowledge targeted, context-based, and instantly accessible, these tools:
- Support individual learning speeds
- Promote active understanding
- Enable a more personalized and efficient learning experience
AI Coach for Effective Conversations in Everyday Work
Picture a learning environment where you can practice workplace conversations in a safe, engaging, and feedback-rich space — that’s exactly what CAISY (Conversation AI Simulator) delivers. Learners can explore over 50 realistic business scenarios, each lasting under 15 minutes, from giving constructive feedback to navigating challenging customer interactions or leading product launch discussions. Personalized real-time feedback ensures you can refine communication skills before stepping into real-life situations.
CAISY also allows you to tailor your experience with options for avatars and the mode and behavior of your AI coach. Different modes support different learning goals:
- Practice Mode – Practice independently, using your own wording
- Role Model Mode – Observe best practices without evaluation
- Guiding Mode – Receive targeted interim feedback for structured learning
One Click to Knowledge: The Percipio AI Assistant
The Percipio AI Assistant acts as your personal guide across the platform, helping you find answers instantly, discover relevant content, and explore features through natural conversation. Whether you’re searching for courses, diving into new topics, or simply curious about platform capabilities, it adapts to your language, role, and learning needs. Available on both desktop and mobile, it ensures flexible access to knowledge whenever inspiration strikes.
Get started via the second link provided and ask your first question — it’s as simple as opening the conversation.
27-01-2026
Skillsoft’s learning library offers a wide range of content – here’s an overview of what’s included.
Since January, employees across nearly all Bertelsmann divisions have had the keys to Skillsoft’s treasure trove of digital learning. Today’s focus is on the different formats available on Skillsoft’s learning platform Percipio, which brings together curated learning paths and certification preparation, live online training sessions, as well as books, audiobooks, and summaries.
Channels: Finding the knowledge you need
Channels bring together the latest, carefully selected content on a specific topic in one place. They pull together the freshest, most relevant content all neatly organized:
- courses
- videos
- books
- audiobooks
- summaries
- skill benchmarks
- labs
- live courses
You decide what best supports your learning goals and choose your level: Beginner, Intermediate, or Expert.
Aspire Journeys: Guided learning paths
Ready to learn something new? Aspire Journeys walk you through skills step-by-step, allowing you to track your progress along the way. You’ll know exactly what you’re building and how long each journey is expected to take. Every completed track marks a milestone and serves as proof of your expertise.
Certification Center: A Shortcut to Success
Percipio brings together IT and business certifications from leading providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as project management certifications, and offers structured preparation for certification exams. You can access support for more than one hundred in-demand certifications – compact and practice-oriented.
Live Learning: Learning with professionals
Skillsoft Bootcamps and Leadercamps are interactive live events led by experienced trainers from the field. Each week, three to five sessions are offered, each lasting between two and four hours, with opportunities to ask questions directly. Missed a session? No problem – all sessions are available on demand as recordings.
Bookshelf: Knowledge to go
This area gives you access to books, summaries, audiobooks, and audio summaries at any time – ideal for learning on the go or in shorter time slots.
12-01-2026
New Digital Learning Platform At Bertelsmann: Skillsoft
In a world that’s changing by the minute, Skillsoft is your secret weapon for staying ahead of the curve. Skillsoft’s digital learning platform is now rolling out across most Bertelsmann divisions. With over 20 years of expertise in digital learning and constant innovation based on what learners actually need, it’s designed to help you sharpen skills, discover new ones, and stay ahead in a world that’s changing fast.
A Whole World of Learning at Your Fingertips
Skillsoft’s platform, Percipio, is all about skills-oriented learning — whether for your career, your personal growth, or simply satisfying your curiosity. You’ll find:
- Live online training sessions
- AI-powered conversation simulations
- Books and audiobooks
- Courses in leadership, business, soft skills, tech, and data — everything you need for a well-rounded skill set
It’s a holistic learning portfolio that’s highly relevant for Bertelsmann and perfect for anyone eager to up their game.
Tools That Know You (and Your Goals)
- Skill Benchmarks: See exactly where you’re strong, where you could improve, and get course recommendations to bridge the gap.
- Role Advisor: Choose a role you aspire to, and get a tailored roadmap to help you meet the skills required for it.
Learn Anywhere, Anytime
Whether you’re at your desk, on the train, or chilling at home, Skillsoft is ready when you are:
- Access courses on Peoplenet or directly at peoplenet.percipio.com
- Download the mobile app for learning on the go
- Watch this Skillsoft Access video for tips on downloading, registering, and navigating
- Find an extended walkthrough video on Peoplenet for a deeper dive into the platform