Hobbies And Interests
Leaders in Action
Learn to Lead manufactures the board game Leaders in Action, with a stated mission of instructing players in six important qualities that great leaders must have. These qualities are lucid communication, successful supervision of change, motivating others, addressing conflict and other issues, efficient planning and working with others while completing your own work. You can tweak this game so that it&'s appropriate for senior, middle or low-level management. The game allows players to think creatively and to allow feedback from other players.
Centering Your Leadership
The board game Centering Your Leadership refers to itself as an MBA in a box and helps players to self-assess their own leadership skills by providing them with sets of challenges. To play, the players divide into teams; each team picks a pawn to represent them. The pawns move along the board answering questions designed to challenge their leadership; how effectively the players answer decides whether or not they will move forward. The questions are based on six competencies that the game determines that all leaders should have (such as conflict resolution and listening abilities), as well as 30 other connected skills. Makers of the game based it on 10 years of research conducted by the Haines Centre for Strategic Management.
The Game of Go
The game of Go is a fascinating yet extremely simple board game that dates back 4,000 years to ancient China. According to the website Usgo.org, "Two players alternate in placing black and white stones on a large (19x19 line) ruled board, with the aim of surrounding territory. Stones never move, and are only removed from the board if they are completely surrounded." Thus, this game is an exercise in the skills that you need for great leadership: extreme patience, strategy, flexibility, resolution and an ability to bounce back after certain losses and still make gains.