Every game I run goes after one leadership behaviour under real pressure. These guides go deeper on each one - what good actually looks like, the exact place managers get stuck, and how the habit gets built. Start with the skill you're working on right now. Then have a look at the complete guide to serious games for leadership development for the bigger picture.

Leadership skill guides

• How to delegate as a manager - hand off the decision, not just the task.
• First-time manager guide - the skills new managers actually need first.
• How to build trust on a team - why investing in others compounds.
• How to improve team communication - make the implicit explicit.
• Stakeholder management for managers - leading through influence, not authority.
• Negotiation skills for managers - value-creating over value-claiming.
• Decision making under uncertainty - deciding well on incomplete information.
• Problem solving for teams - surfacing the real problem before fixing the symptom.
• How to be more adaptable as a leader - learning agility when conditions shift.
• Change management for managers - leading people through change that sticks.
• Team building games for employees - what actually builds a team versus what just fills a day.

Serious games vs the alternatives

Here is how a facilitated serious game or simulation compares to whatever it is replacing on your calendar. No hedging.

• Serious games vs gamification - behaviour change versus points and badges.
• Serious games vs team building activities - diagnosis versus a fun day out.
• Serious games vs classroom training - doing versus being told.
• Serious games vs digital learning - live social dynamics versus screens.
• Serious games vs off-the-shelf training - designed-and-run versus licensed-and-handed-off.

Go deeper

• Serious games for leadership development: the complete guide
• The Put The Player First framework - the method behind every game.
• See the six games - each one aimed at a behaviour above.

Come and talk to me See the games

With love from Bengaluru, this is Arvindh saying over and out.