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Serious Games
Games. Seriously? Absolutly! How do you prepare a manager for leadership? 90% of what people learn is through experience. Training military and airline pilots through simulations is already very common. Games provide the power to gain experience in a simulated enviroment. Games award desired skills, behaviour and attitudes. Games allow people to prepare for high pressure situations. What if you start using the power of games for preparing your future executives? Together with RA.NJ. we’re in a joint venture which co-develops games for executive education together with top scolars in the field of Leadership, Innovation etc. Contact us if your interested in a demo and finding out more about how games can help your organization.
TED TALK: “Gaming can make a better world” by Jane McGonigal
Learn to be a leader vs. learning about leadership Research at Stanford indicates that the skills displayed in virtual worlds frequently carry over into the real world and that people do display more of the behaviors or skills that helped them in the game world. It looks like the virtual world offers a unique opportunity for designing serious games that can create an explicit experience of leadership development. Since the game world requires active participation and action, it is more likely that players in virtual world learn to be leaders than just learn about leadership. In another research jointly conducted by IBM and Seriosity Inc gives us an insight into the possibilities that exist for using Virtual Worlds for leadership development. One of the inferences we can make from the report is related to how online games give leaders the freedom to try some new behaviors or strategy, succeed or fail, and experiment with many different approaches and techniques. Would it not be great to have a world in which we can experiment with ideas and explore without worrying about how it would impact our promotion or any other repercussions? source: http://www.infosysblogs. Other source of interest:
- Wikipedia