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April 30, 2021
As the P2 team set out to test our new Virtual Reality product (VR for leaders), you could hear the enthusiasm, the pent-up excitement, and the confusion as we put on our Oculus Quest 2 headsets. At P2, we deliver high-impact leadership assessment and development solutions, and this product delivered. It was immersive, virtual, and measurable – with a pinch of fun.
Once we had set up our virtual boundary, we became fully immersed in our virtual reality scenario – where team relationships, listening skills, accountability, and problem-solving are all put to the test. Who will thrive under pressure, who will crumble, who will be totally overwhelmed by the challenging environment and its mission! Who knows! And that is the intriguing part, this way of learning is new and exciting. So many skills and behaviors start to come into play almost immediately, you might not even recognize yourself!
As we progress through the simulation, you can really appreciate how VR learning can practically assist with talent acquisition, succession planning, leadership development, and team engagement. Being able to see how individuals deal with high pressured environments is vital and normally difficult to test.
Remote teams have also been starved of the small interactions, like a quick chat over a cuppa. The VR simulation allows you and your teams to work on a task together (if you choose), within a virtually connected platform, it feels so real and great to connect again in that way.
VR learning allows learning by doing, with task repetition — which builds proficiency. That’s why VR learners completed training 1 x4 faster than in the classroom and also why they are 3.75x more emotionally connected to the content. With our Apollo simulation, four players complete a virtual challenge with little or no guidance. The second team of four players act as guides. The facilitators observe and give real-time feedback on team and individual behaviors. This cutting-edge technology, alongside psychometrics, delivers authentic insights you wouldn’t normally see, it also provides measurable improvements quickly. You can really see the growth of individuals and teams throughout the process.
We are delighted to share our new VR for leaders product with our clients, and to partner with the innovative Jenson8. This really is the future of leadership growth, and in this remote world, it is exactly what your leaders need.
Find out how VR for leaders can re-engage, reignite and rebuild your leadership teams for a more dynamic and optimistic future.
All of us have experienced an enormous impact on our professional and personal lives in one way or another. But, as businesses start to edge closer to normality and leaders begin to think about developing a new culture, it's important they don't lose sight of the skills developed and honed during the pandemic because some tough (and useful) lessons were learned:
June 21, 2022In the process of practicing courageous conversations in the role play, leaders were able to truly understand their intention versus their impact.
May 25, 2022The term psychological safety was coined by Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson. She defines it as “a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. Establishing a climate of psychological safety allows space for people to speak up and share their ideas.”
May 10, 2022The500 is a 9-month, cross-sector, socially-focused leadership development program that builds the leadership capability of senior business leaders while making a positive impact on society.
April 29, 2022Virtual reality leadership training is an immersive experience and in the case of multi-player VR training, leaders are immersed in a virtual world where they are expected to collaborate and successfully complete a series of tasks. An effective VR experience lasts 5 to 15 minutes and enables facilitators to test and observe a range of soft skills, including empathy, communication, collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement, agility, and much more.
March 29, 2022Make sure your team knows they can count on you as their leader, to provide a level of safety and security to achieve great things. My one piece of advice for up-and-coming leaders is – always be yourself, you are your greatest asset – be confident in your own abilities, the rest will follow.
March 8, 2022In this new, virtual world, an internal audit team needs to understand how to influence stakeholders, build strong and open internal cultures, and present clear and sufficient oversight over the risk agenda.
January 28, 2022During P2’s webinar on the topic of “what will the leader of 2022 face” our expert panelists explored key leadership pressure points, looking back at 2021 and forward in time to 2022, to make sense of the craziness.
December 23, 2021The holy grail of customer loyalty has vexed many an organization for many a year. Knowing that keeping loyal customers costs the business less than it does to replace them with new customers can focus leadership energy. Yet many spend too much time spent chasing the concept of satisfaction without actually thinking of customer experience. In fact, a whole industry has sprung up around customer loyalty – what is it? what drives it? how can we achieve it? and how can we measure it?
December 21, 2021Our goal is to create for leaders the chance to reconnect with the concept of play, fall out of their own thinking, take risks, experiment, and with a soft place to land – learn fast. These play areas or playgrounds are created to be a safe place but they do include the concept of stretch + rest = growth.
December 15, 2021What sets good leaders apart from great leaders isn’t rhetoric, but rather engagement. Engagement means genuinely listening, asking powerful questions to truly understand, working with the other individual, and having a powerful and meaningful conversation. This is a two-way process: it serves to enhance and not block; to grow and not limit; and finally to collaborate rather than just instruct. And it is tough to do.
November 26, 2021Join us as we bring together a panel of Leadership Experts, including Author and Keynote Speaker Liane Davey, discussing the biggest challenges leaders will face in 2022. This year has felt like being on a crazy train of change, will it be an even crazier train in 2022? Where should leaders focus?
November 23, 2021Just when you thought you were getting the hang of leading in the virtual world, now organizations are asking you to lead in a hybrid world. Whether that is three days in the office, two days at home, four days in the office, and one day at home, or even a much more flexible version where it is up to the individual. How the hell are we supposed to find the right way forward?
November 12, 2021Colin Hunter is an Author, Mentor, Coach, and the Founder and CEO of PotentialSquared, an international business that specializes in Leadership Development, creating playgrounds of innovation and disrupting the way people are led. Relearning failure as a valuable outcome makes for an outstanding and successful leader. Building from your insecurities is essential to leadership. But, that’s easier said than done. What if you could build a workplace culture that was less like a classroom, and more like a playground: a place filled with opportunities to take risks and test boundaries, with soft ground on which to fall? A place where you and your team are free to make mistakes and get things wrong―a place where it’s okay to fail? Just think of the potential you can unlock when teams are free to innovate without fear of failure.
September 21, 2021"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you. You never know which motivational journey will inspire you most. This week, the show is joined by Colin Hunter. Author, Mentor, Entrepreneur, Coach and CEO at Potential Squared International, he does it all.
August 5, 2021Leading through uncertainty requires great skill, flexibility, and empathy, and also presents an opportunity for leaders and their teams to shape the future. Giving your leaders the tools they need to create a clear vision, helps to keep people focused on what to prioritize amongst the myriad of activities, demands, and opportunities that emerge during challenging situations.
July 21, 2021Listen in to know how Colin takes on innovation in the field of VR with Accenture and creats playgrounds for his various clients. You'll also get a sneak peek at how his daughters fell in love with staying in hotels. Clue: stuffed animals!
July 12, 2021We all strive for success. But author, entrepreneur, and leadership coach Colin Hunter wants to encourage leaders to embrace failure instead. As the CEO and Lead Guide of PotentialSquared, Colin inspires leaders to disrupt the way they engage and develop their people, encouraging them to try new ways of thinking, systems, and habits.
July 5, 2021Colin talks with Zach about why he thinks creating a playground for leaders to test, stretch and push themselves is healthy.
July 1, 2021John Rennie and Colin talk about the power of controlled failure in leadership, Colin's first book 'Be More Wrong', and what makes PotentialSqaured unique.
June 24, 2021Colin talks with Rohan Dredge on Facebook Live. A great conversation on leadership playgrounds.
June 21, 2021Who better to speak with now as we head into the next phase of the ‘pandemic era’ than Colin Hunter, CEO of PotentialSquared, which specializes in using virtual reality technology to help leaders reveal and learn from their true behaviors and habits.
June 7, 2021Colin joins Michael Matias on the 20-minute leaders podcast.
June 2, 2021Fear in Leadership - Colin Hunter on the Gritty Leaders Podcast.
May 29, 2021Stephen Crawford talks to Colin about his new book (due to be published in September 2021) and his message of “be more wrong.” Tune in to learn how to help your screw-ups add to your success as a leader.
May 26, 2021Check out our CEO Colin Hunter appearing on The Business and Leadership Podcast with Jared Graybeal.
May 24, 2021It’s funny how this time of the year has a major impact on people. As I sit looking out the window as snowflakes fall, the morning after we sat in the garden wondering whether the sun cream was needed. Spring has several phases that seem to give us hope, the daffodils come out, we have hope that the sun and warmth are coming too.
April 9, 2021Beyond the obvious importance of being able to work in a physically safe environment, attention in recent years has been drawn to ‘Psychological Safety’, through the work of Amy Edmondson and Tim Clark. What do we mean by psychological safety?
March 23, 2021You can use VR to hire, assess and develop leadership capability. Imagine an immersive, virtual and measurable simulation that challenges teams to meet their learning and development goals. Participants must communicate, plan, organize, collaborate, and solve problems within a VR environment.
April 7, 2021As we progress through the simulation, you can really appreciate how Virtual Reality learning can practically assist with talent acquisition, succession planning, leadership development, and team engagement. Being able to see how individuals deal with high pressured environments is vital and normally difficult to test.
April 30, 2021It’s funny how this time of the year has a major impact on people. As I sit looking out the window as snowflakes fall, the morning after we sat in the garden wondering whether the sun cream was needed. Spring has several phases that seem to give us hope, the daffodils come out, we have hope that the sun and warmth are coming too.
April 9, 2021This Leadership Development Program also gives in-depth analysis and 360’ insight into your leaders’ styles. Purpose, Identity, and Presence are the 3 drivers of leaders’ actions. They fuel leaders' ability to be a Host, an Energiser, a Disruptor, and a Catalyst. Your leaders will come away with tangible long-term plans of action. They will be encouraged to embed systems and habits that will keep them on an upwards trajectory. These programs can be fully tailored and aligned with your organization’s values and leadership frameworks.
February 1, 2021The analogy of the leader taking the ship out of the harbour and deliberately seeking rougher seas, evokes a mix of fear and exhilaration in leaders and their teams.
February 1, 2021The most amazing stories I hear in my journeys as a leadership consultant, are those of people who never thought they would ever be a leader, and now they are.
February 21, 2021