Every game we run targets a specific leadership behaviour under pressure. These guides go deeper on each one: what good looks like, where managers get stuck, and how to build the habit. Start with the skill you are working on, then see 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

How facilitated serious games compare to the formats they most often replace.

• 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 mapped to a behaviour above.

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