Leadership & Management

This game has a specific focus on leading teams through Emotional Intelligence: Building self-awareness, empathy, understanding how to connect with employee motivations. You will lead a company turnaround through the application of ethical, emotionally intelligent and diversity sensitive leadership values, including inspired communication, customer-centricity, culture of experimentation and generosity of spirit.

Who's it for?
  • New and mid-to senior-level leaders from any size company, any industry and any country within the private or public sectors.
  • Graduate and Undergraduate students who are embarking on an academic journey towards understanding more about leadership and management.
  • Professors and Instructors in Leadership, Management and Organizational Behavior.
  
What you'll learn
Participants will learn how to problem-solve business leadership issues, developing an effective skillset to lead an organization and clients on a transformational journey, including:
Level 1 -- Creating a high-performing team
Level 2 -- Setting achievable and targeted goals
Level 3 -- Inspiring your team and achieving real commitment 
Level 4 -- Overcoming setbacks, problems and competition 
Level 5 -- Igniting your following and inspiring real change 

What They Say
​98% “highly engaging”
100% “useful key concepts”*
​-Cisco, leadership program study

 “Our Graduate students are a highly discerning bunch and they loved it. But the real magic of E I Games engagement is its ‘stickiness’…the retention of key Leadership themes and tools well beyond the game play.”
                            Dr. Susan Davis
                            Adjunct Associate Professor of Business
                            Stern School of Business
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Sales/Communications


Hone your communications and influencing skills, present, pitch and win using EQ business development strategies and key principles of emotional motivation, personality profiling and advanced closing techniques.

Who's it for?
  • All teams and individuals from any size company, any industry, and any country within the private or public sectors.
  • Undergraduate and Graduate students who are embarking on an academic journey in communications
  • Professors and Instructors in Sales, Speech, Communications and Marketing

What you'll learn
Participants will learn how to problem-solve issues based on effective communication, developing an effective skillset to communicate effectively with teams, piers and clients. Players will learn the techniques of identifying and connecting with audience motivations and the effective disciplines of presenting including:

Level 1 – Connecting with your Audience 
Level 2 -- Understanding Personality Profiles 
Level 3 – Preparing for Your Presentation 
Level 4 – Closing to Win  
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What They Say
 “E.I games’ Pitch and Persuade is an inspired part of our program.”
  Teman Evans, Lecturer in Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Business Ethics

Lead an enlightened company through a crucial product launch while maintaining economics and ethics on the same decision-making plane, applying sound methods for ethical business outcomes. 
 
Who's it for?
  • Employees at all levels in corporate and not for profit organizations
  • Students of business ethics and anybody working or studying business practices
  • Professors and Instructors in Business Ethics, Leadership and management, organizational Behavior and Humanities
 
What you'll learn
Participants will learn how to problem-solve business ethics issues grounded in Kantian, Aristotelean, pragmatism and utilitarianism ethical principles. In a new product rollout journey,
Level 1 Product Development: Transparency, factual omission, data manipulation
Level 2 Research and Development: Unfair advantage, institutional bias, rumor 
Level 3 Market Preparation: Ad claims, press spin, surreptitious data gathering
Level 4 Team Building: Exclusion, predatory employee ranking double standards
Level 5 Launch: Whistleblowers, misleading bots, pressurized sales targets
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What They Say
"The Business Ethics game generated very animated discussions and debates as we discussed some of the scenarios and answers from the game, much richer discussion than from just using a text.  I'm looking forward to using these games again and also to the future games that EI Games adds to their curriculum.”
George L. Grody, 
Visiting Associate Professor, Markets & Management Studies, Duke University

Entrepreneurship

Achieve entrepreneurial success by applying proven, practical emotional intelligence techniques and leading a team through the introduction of a start-up. Students will experience a driver’s seat view of the challenges, decisions and market forces facing
the entrepreneur and a human centric approach to confronting them

Who's it for?
  • Entrepreneurs incubators and start up advisors
  • All employees in corporate and not for profit organizations looking to build intrapreneurship
  • Students who are embarking on an academic journey in marketing or entrepreneurship.
  • Professors and instructors in Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior, Management and Innovation.

What you'll  learn
Participants will learn how to problem-solve entrepreneurship issues.
You'll develop an effective skillset to assist you in learning how to deal with issues confronted by most start-up leaders including:
Level 1 – The Entrepreneurial Journey
Level 2 – Developing the Idea
Level 3 – Realizing the Idea
Level 4 – Building the Company
Level 5 – Selling the Idea
Level 6 – Going to Market

What They Say
“E I Games’ Fireworks gets you much closer to a real-world experience than you can ever capture from a textbook about entrepreneurship.  Fireworks is emotionally engaging, appropriately demanding, and rewarding when you succeed—just like being an entrepreneur really is.”
Dr. Dennis Trinkle
​Director, Center for Information and Communication Sciences (CICS)

Organizational Assessment

Lead an organizational assessments team tasked with implementing a high-standard analysis in the face of organizational resistance.

Who's it for?
  • New and mid-to senior-level leaders from any size company, any industry, and any
  • country within the private or public sectors.
  • Students of Organization assessment, and Business
  • Professors and Instructors in Organizational Assessment, Leadership, Management and Organizational Behavior​
What you'll learn
Participants will learn the full components of organizations their composition and
standards of best practices within each, including:
Level 1. Motivations and Goals
Level 2 Leadership and Method
Level 3 Culture and Ambition
Level 4 Measurement and Accountability
Level 5. People and Organization

What They Say
“The Apprise Game literally breathed life into the course. It provided an all important human
dimension to data analytics.”
L. Marie Wallace, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Leadership and Interdisciplinary Studies, Arizona State University

Student Success

A groundbreaking game designed to address student drop-out rates and act as a support system and early warning system to keep freshman students in college.
Student players lead a team tasked with turning around a university in the face of organizational resistance and student disengagement.

Who's it for?
  • College Provosts, Retention and student success officers
  • Freshman transfers and others across their college journey

What you'll learn
Participants will learn how to problem-solve issues identified as key “drop out triggers” both to recognize and understand how to deal with them and to know where to go for help.
Issues include:
Level 1 Start: Homesickness, Bombing a test, Not making friends
Level 2 Midterm: Workload, Parental expectations, Depression
Level 3 Spring Break: Gender issues, Breakup, Cyber bullying
Level 4 Finals: Cramming Stress, Questionable major, Full time work