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DDI Pioneers Groundbreaking Virtual Reality Experiences to Transform Soft Skills Training for Leaders

DDI is creating a library of VR scenarios that deliver powerful, memorable experiences that help leaders develop and practice critical leadership skills such as empathy, communication, and coaching in realistic scenarios.

Working with top VR companies such as Strivr and Friends with Holograms to create the experiences, DDI offers a library of scenarios spanning several applications, including immersive experiences that help leaders understand diversity, and inclusion and interactive environments where leaders can practice skills such as coaching and having tough conversations.

"In most cases, leaders don't intend to be exclusionary, but it's a natural part of being human that we tend to gravitate toward people like ourselves, which creates a lot of bias in the workplace," said Tacy Byham, Ph.D., CEO of DDI. "Trying to accuse people or make them feel guilty for being part of the 'in-group' won't work and is counterproductive. What VR enables us to do, however, is make people understand at a visceral, emotional level how exclusion works and the negative effect it has on people, including highly talented people who could be adding a lot of business value if given the chance."

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