The FLIGBY lab was contacted recently by one of our North American academic partners to find a way for using FLIGBY teaching Blue Ocean concept. Since FLIGBY was used already for explaining and demonstrating many different leadership approaches, we were happy to help to create a comprehensive syllabus for the “Blue Ocean” class too. Teaching Blue Ocean –…
Category: Teaching FLIGBY
Don’t play with it – DO take it serious
An interview with Peter Szabo, Requirement Area Manager at Ericsson Why did you decide to play FLIGBY? We are all sort-of “Homo Ludens”-species. That is why the gamification principle has been so interesting to me and seems to be very successful nowadays. This might have led the creators of FLIGBY – Csikszentmihalyi’s Official Leadership Development…
FLIGBY in the Navy SEAL training program
We always take pride when acclaimed organizations recognize and employ our solutions. When the best in a profession chooses FLIGBY, we feel that it is worthwhile to travel a more challenging road. The Navy SEALs are the world’s leading elite military force and FLIGBY has been part of their decommissioning training program for soldiers for…
Flow, Leadership and Serious Games: A Pedagogical Perspective – Part 3
By: Zoltan Buzady Ph.D., Central European University Business School, Hungary. Part 1 Part 2 Serious Gaming Technology Enables Blended Learning Pedagogy Our aim in this contribution is also to tell the reader our experiences about using this particular serious game as a blended learning tool for effective training and development of Flow-based leadership and…
Fligby: now Flow makes sense
written by: Claudio A. Rivera I met Prof. Zoltan Buzady via CEEMAN association, that often promoted Fligby’s global network in their news letters . I now have finished my first-hand experience with FLIGBY as an innovative teaching tool and I am exploring ways of possibly including it into my own teaching practice at Riga Business School. For now…
FLIGBY’s Leadership Topics
Leadership or business simulations are dynamic computer-based experiences, allow to practice personal and organizational strategies in a risk-free and motivating learning environment. They are highly effective in building critical capabilities needed for managing complex situations and organizational challenges. FLIGBY, Prof. Csikszentmihalyi’s official leadership simulation program, was developed to build a broad perspective on critical business…
Using serious games at university courses vs. corporate training projects
Last week I held a very interesting interview with Dr. Zoltan Buzady, who – beside being an experienced and acknowledged professor of Management & Leadership Development at CEU Business School, Hungary – is Managing Director of the global ‘Leadership & Flow Research Program and Network’, organized in cooperation with ALEAS Simulations Inc. He has vast…
Behind the scenes of FLIGBY – from idea to invention
What do you think, how many people and how long did it take to create the #1 world (2012 Seattle) award winning serious game, FLIGBY? Believe it or not, it all began 10 years ago…or even a bit more. Maybe the below unfolding story sounds a bit mystical, being the creation of lucky coincidences. Back in…
How sexy is leadership development? Well, TOO SEXY !!!
Below you can read the short reflection that Zoltan Buzady shared on his google+ page with some of my additions regarding to Victor Lipman’s article about leadership development. How sexy is leadership development? Well, TOO SEXY !!! I agree with the conclusion that in developed economies too much focus and money is being spent on…
Why winery?
A first-class winery game. Why did we choose a Californian winery as the venue of FLIGBY simulation? First of all, we needed a good story which was able to capture people’s imagination of course. But there is more to it. Prof. Csikszentmihalyi himself proposed the subject of a winery back in 2008. He had two…