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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 –…
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…
I am a 19-year-old student enrolled in an International Politics and Government program at Bocconi University. This summer I was searching for an internship opportunity to gain experience and came across a wonderful team working with flow theory, and a serious game called FLIGBY. Before starting the internship, I was encouraged to complete the FLIGBY…
A methodology of establishing leadership skill profile using gameplay data The mission of the serious game FLIGBY is to identify, measure, and help develop leadership skills. At the Game’s end, FLIGBY provides an individual report to each player on his/her skillset, with a range of benchmarking option available. In FLIGBY, each player‘s leadership profile is…
“Which are the Critical Leadership Skills in your opinion, Professor Buzády?” – How often do I hear this question by management students, highly successful executives and my management coaching clients. Well, the answer I give is always the same: for sustainable success, you must develop and then constantly enhance your People Skills. By this, I…
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…
Dr. Zoltan Buzady, Associate Professor of Management, Director of the ‘Leadership & Flow Global Research Network’, Corvinus Business School Special Report in BBJournal May 2017 on HRM As the Hungarian and the other CEE countries are experiencing continued growth, maintaining our achieved positions on global competitiveness rankings and to further improve our…
By: Zoltan Buzady Ph.D., Central European University Business School, Hungary. Part 1 Combining Flow and Serious Games A detailed market study prepared by Learnovate Centre identified the state-of-the-art use of serious games for learning in the corporate sector (Donovan, 2012). They report an uptake of such gamification and list the following application areas of…
MISSING LINK DISCOVERED by P. Marer, Z. Buzady, and Z. Vecsey Review by B. Gourley So, you’re a leader and you’ve experienced Flow. Self-criticism vanished. Time fell away. The task was challenging, but the performance felt effortless. Your attention was rapt, and any craving for distractions disappeared. Maybe you even had a spate of creativity.…
By: Zoltan Buzady Ph.D., Central European University Business School, Hungary. Overview This special issue of the ‘World Journal of Science, Technology, and Sustainable Development’ focuses on new, computer-based and/or online learning tools with the aim to present current trends and innovations to professionals, consultants, instructors, and academics. The author of this contribution is a researcher…