Time to reflect on your current leadership and management styles. Examining the industry challenges and opportunities, identifying your leadership style, core leadership principles and best practices.

This module is about ensuring the team have a level of emotional awareness and emotional regulation.

The content includes essential components of high-performing teams plus strategies for building trust, psychological safety, and communication within teams.

Coaching and Mentoring skills to establish the role of coaching and mentoring in leadership including best practices. Plus strategies for managing conflict and fostering productive dialogue within your team.

Following on from the introduction to Emotional Intelligence (EI) in the first module, we will look at the role of EI in effective leadership in the games industry.

We look at techniques for enhancing self-awareness and self-regulation to become more mindful of yourself (and the shadow you cast) and on others. We also focus on empathy and social skills in leadership.

We look at understanding Change Management, the types of change and their implications for leadership, plus best practices.

Strategies for communicating change effectively, developing resilience and adaptability in yourself and your team. Plus overcoming resistance to change by identifying and addressing barriers.

Examining the role of strategic thinking in games leadership, techniques for effective strategic planning and execution

We look at the importance of innovation and creativity in the gaming industry with strategies for promoting an innovative culture and overcoming barriers to creativity.

We also discuss techniques for project management, prototyping, and risk assessment.

How can you develop your leadership brand, modelling excellence in yourself and the team to build a culture of continuous learning.

The role of lifelong learning in effective leadership with strategies for promoting learning and development within your team and organisation

Finally, measuring success and impact via KPIs, metrics and techniques for measuring and evaluating the impact of leadership initiatives.

The opportunity is there to add in group coaching sessions between each module (which allows the sessions to further embed) by discussing with each cohort what they have learnt and then applied within the teams.

1:1 coaching is also available for those who need extra support or if you really want to invest in each of your key staff making the most from the programme. We have coached and supported people at senior levels in the gaming industry in AAA studios.

Each person will have the opportunity to create a personal learning plan as part of the training. There is also the option to add in personal projects which we can assist in planning, implementing and learning from.

These projects can be tied into the whole programme or to each module and again further cements the knowledge they gain on each module.

As part of the personal insight work, we can arrange and facilitate each person to receive a report via a psychometric tool such as Insights, Engage or Myers-Briggs.

Reports can then include 1:1 discussions with the team and with tools such as Insights we can discuss the team report (useful for SLT trainings)

Each attendee will be asked to complete a pre (and post) questionnaire allowing them the chance to reflect upon their own leadership style and emotional intelligence.

There is also the option to include a 360 report which asks people that attendee works with to provide feedback and insights from an external perspective. This will also include strengths and areas for development and can be incredibly useful.