Csikszentmihalyi’sFLOW is Good Business™the ultimate leadership simulation game and blended learning solution

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Who is playing? (1.)

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• You are the key to success – Computer games have to be the most Empowering activities around.• Mistakes are necessary on the path to success – Trial and error.• Things are connected –

Games are complex and intertwined systems.• How to learn• Computer literacy –

People who spend time playing with computers become very comfortable with computers.

What we can learn from Computer Games

Clark Aldrich

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Developing the 21st-Century Leader

Major business challenges driving the need for effective 21st-century leadership

Attracting talent

Changing buying patterns Changing methods of distribution

Controlling healthcare costs

Corporate social responsibility

Cost pressures

Current competitors

Diversity in the workforce

Driving sales growth

Employee productivity

Enabling business growthEnvironmental responsibility

Ethical leadershipExpanding into new markets Gaining access to capital

Insufficient number of leaders

Improving customer satisfaction

Insufficient talent overall

Integrating new technologiesLack of trust among leaders and employees

New competitors

Operational excellence

Regulatory environmentRetaining talent

Succeeding with mergers and acquisitions Technology challenges

Virtual workplace structures

Source: AchieveglobalA multi-level analysis of global trends in leadership challenges and practices2010

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Blended Learning

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Being in the zone

Balance between challenges and skills

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Positive psychology

Making of meaning

Strategic thinking

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Clear goals

Leading change

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Why FLIGBY®?

Learning by Doing – For anyone who understands that “being fully engaged” is a key ingredient of the future of business, games are the definitive model. People learn better when they don't know they are learning. “Flow” Makes Your Business Stronger – Flow is one of the most crucial conditions for good leadership and sustainable business today. When Flow is achieved by its stakeholders, company will generate more profit.

FLIGBY Saves You Money – 120-days complex leadership development experience just for $200 with great blended learning possibilities.

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Narrative Context – The Turul Winery

Good Games haveGood Backstories

The player takes on the role of the General Manager of the well-established and well-known Turul Winery, in California and faces the challenging task of having to achieve a state of harmony and co-operation in a team significantly weakened by internal conflicts. Will it be possible to win the international "Spirit of Wine Award" as a direct result of leadership skills and efforts?

Check out Turul’s website (www.turulwinery.com)

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FLIGBY’s Screen Structure (Main User Interface)

“Magic FLIGBY Button”

“Full Screen” Button

Control Panel

Next Button

Flow Gauge Button

FLIGBY Media Library

Subtitle Field

Virtual Time in

the Story

Link to Turul

Winery’s external website

Flow Trophies

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FLIGBY’s Screen Structure (Flow Gauge - 1)

ThePROFITABILITY INDEX shows how a player's decision impacts Turul Winery's revenue generating ability.

“Flow Status / Personal Profile” Switch

FLOW Meter of the Winery

Quick Links to Personal Profiles

Changes in the Flow State

"Flow Meter" is the CORPORATE ATMOSPHERE METER of the Turul Winery which shows the average mood inside the organization.

Profitability Index of the Winery

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Flow✗ is one of the most crucial conditions for good leadership and sustainable business.When Flow is achieved by the stakeholders (employees, managers, customers), the

company generates

more profit.

Flow and Business (1.)

✗Flow is the mental

state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.

Flow is characterized by intense concentration, loss of self-awareness, a feeling of being perfectly challenged and a sense that "time is flying”.

Flow is an intrinsically rewarding experience and it can also help one achieve a goal or improve skills. Anyone can experience Flow in many different regards, such as play, creativity and work.

To experience Flow, one needs to have the relevant level of challenges for their particular skillset.

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Flow and Business (2.)

Flow is one of the most crucial conditions ofFlow is one of the most crucial conditions ofgood leadership and sustainable business.good leadership and sustainable business.

The „Flow is Good Business™” simulation teaches managers how to become leaders who effectively create an environment in which Flow can flourish.

Flow-based Flow-based organization organization promotes employee promotes employee engagement and engagement and positive attitudes in positive attitudes in the workplace.the workplace.Done well, it helps to Done well, it helps to reduce costs, reduce costs, employee employee complaints and complaints and makes the company makes the company a place that people a place that people enjoy being a part enjoy being a part of. of.

Good BusinessGood Business

Good Good LeadershipLeadership

Flow state of the company’s stakeholdersFlow state of the company’s stakeholders(employees, managers, costumers…) generates more (employees, managers, costumers…) generates more

profit.profit.

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Leadership Skills Tested by FLIGBY® The extensive research which was part of the development of FLIGBY®, partly on the basis of the Professor Csikszentmihalyi’s book titled “Good Business”, identified the leadership skills contributing to create and maintain the Flow-state. These 29 skills were named “FLIGBY Leadership Skillset”.

The course and the decision points of the game were built up to test these leadership skills.

1.Active

Listening 2.

Analyzing Skill

3. Assertive

-ness4.

Balancing Skill

5. Building Engage-

ment

6. Business-oriented Thinking

7. Commu-nication

Skill

8. Conflict-mana-

gement

9. Delegating

10. Diploma-tic Skills

11. Emotional

Intelli-gence

12. Empower-

ment

13. Enterpre-nuership

14. Execution Skills

15. Feedbac

k Skill

16. Future-focused Thinking

17. Information Gathering

18. Intuitive Thinking

19.Involvemen

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20. Motivati-

onal Skills

21. Organi-

zing Skills

22. Prioriza-tion Skill

23. Quick

Decision-making

24. Realizing Personal Strenghts

25. Social

System Thinking

26. Social Responsi-

bility

27. Strategic Thinking

28. Teamwork

Mana-gement

29. Time Manage-

ment Skills

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The Basic Components of FLIGBY®

FLIGBY Game Engine

(Rules and Feedback System)

FLIGBY Interactive

User Interface

(Story Videos, Decision

Points, Media Library)

FLIGBY Data Base

(Storage of End-user’s Data)

FLIGBY Leadership

Skills Engine(Evaluation

System)

FLIGBY Reporting

Module User

Interface(Report

Generation)

System elements used during the gameplay by the End-user

FLIGBY® Online Simulation

FLIGBY® Online Reporting Module

System elements used during the evaluation by the Solution Provider

The FLIGBY online system has been developed to be suitable for the summarization and evaluation of the users’ results on individual and on group level beside the game itself.

Directs the story and operates the evaluation

according to user’s decisions

FLIGBY is hosted through the Amazon Cloud Services

The comparison of the decision alternatives chosen

by the user and the leadership skill values belonging to them.

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Reporting - What the Player Cannot SeeThis part of FLIGBY®’s feedback system is for professional use: Several Leadership Skills are tested at the same time at the Strategic Decision Points of the game. If the player makes a right decision the system raises the values of the skills belonging to that certain decision point on the player’s assessment sheet. This means that the „relative strength” of the certain skills in the players’ leadership styles can be concluded from the decisions they make.

The strategic decision points test several relevant leadership skills at the same time.

The game tests each skill on the basis of several decisions. This multiple testing ensures the reliability of the feedback.

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Contacts

For more information, please contact our FLIGBY BLS® management!

Zsadany „ZAD” VecseyManaging DirectorMail: vecseyzs@aleasgroup.com

ALEAS Simulations, Inc., California12121 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025

www.aleasgroup.com

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