A recent International Labour Organization study “Skills mismatch in Europe study 2014”, shows that labour market in Europe demonstrates various types of skill mismatch, including mismatch between the number of job seekers and employment opportunities, which is reflected in unemployment. The overall aim of the “Lead4Skills” project is to provide higher education institutions (HEI)…
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10 professions who must play FLIGBY – are you one of them?
A Leadership Game You Have Never Seen Before Contribution by: Bence Peter Biro FLIGBY, our flow-promoting leadership development serious game has been designed with the purpose to make you a better leader. The biggest scientific contributor to this simulation game is Prof Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist, researcher and author of numerous global best selling books, most notably Flow.…
FLIGBY Skills Tool Box – Conflict Management
Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of the global best-seller book Good Business, conducted deep interviews with several leaders of internationally successful, and sustainable organizations. He found that these successfully created Flow-promoting Organizations and implemented the Flow-Leadership style. Together with him, our team at Aleas Sims/FLIGBY has identified a core of 29 management and leadership skills. In cooperation with…
Learning Leadership from a Serious Simulation Game – Online Coaching Best Practice
Let us re-share with you the post by Nina Trankova, Global Expert in Digital Communications Skills, Official Google+ Create Lead-Member and Top Contributor: “That might sound strange from a person who never played computer games at all.” The 100% individual result for such a short time (the global average time is 7h) and the metrics…
Fligby as an asset for entrepreneurship students
An interview with Dr. Fernando Almeida, Engineer/Professor of the Polytechnic Higher Institute of Gaya Prepared by Dr. Zoltan Buzady, Director of the Global Leadership & Flow Network Dr. Almeida, you are a top scientist in your field of Science & Technology and now teach also Entrepreneurship. What are your observations when using FLIGBY as a platform to help…
Game-based Leadership Profiling
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…
Spring chickens and old dogs – generations working together
About 150-200 years ago when people died at a younger age (around 40-60) and the yearly technical advancement wasn’t that significant, it didn’t cause any problems for generations to work together. It was obvious that everyone starts at the bottom at a young age and works him/herself up on the ladder by learning and perfecting the tricks of…
The Theory of “Flow’ and Its Relevance for Organizations
By: Zoltan Buzady and Paul Marer, March 2016In: CEU Working Paper SeriesDownload full working paper here. Abstract: The objective of this essay is to identify how leadership based on the principles of Flow theory, if applied, helps create a Flow-promoting work environment and leads to better organizational performance.Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of Flow – globally known, appreciated, and…
Do you want to know what Flow is? Read or Watch!
Do you want to know what Flow is? If your vote is for watching (‘5): If your vote is for reading, in our new book “Missing Link Discovered“, we wrote a whole chapter on “The Science Behind Flow”. The following is an extract from From Chapter 1: In Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s own words: “My original research, which I still do,…