Fast Company Wants You To Increase Emotional Intelligence With Play-Rx
Developed at Stanford University, Play-Rx excels in developing emotional intelligence with an experiential platform to strengthen organizational culture and foster innovation. The brand is recognized as a finalist by Fast Company as a World Changing Idea 2019 in Education.
NEW YORK, April 17, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Play-Rx, the play-based learning platform for emotional intelligence, is changing how organizations hire, retain, and train their employees in the digital economy. As pioneers in the learning and development movement, Play-Rx uses their proprietary blend of in-person workshops, e-learning tools, and consumer products to develop the soft skills required for corporate success. Play-Rx has worked with startups to Fortune 500 companies, recognizing emotional intelligence as one of the more important trades within their organizations.
"Interpersonal skills are the largest skills gap in the U.S.," says Play-Rx Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder Roger Manix, who created the methodology at Stanford University. "Play-Rx is built to address that very gap with an immediate and lasting solution that companies can sustain. We combine learning science, game-mechanics, and neuroscience to train habits, and mindsets of growth. It's work people want to do. And it's fun!"
With empathy at the core of all their games, Play-Rx offers four tracks: Creativity, Innovation and Divergent Thinking; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Sales and Development; and Compassionate Leadership through Play. Each track has a set of five workshops, and is carefully curated for the skills to become a permanent part of memory. In addition to their tracks, their "medicine," as they playfully call it, can be administered in one-off workshops(s), customized curriculum, design sprints, conferences, retreats, and in-house certification. With access to continuous e-learning, and a community of industry experts, Play-Rx prepares its clients for success.
"I've advised companies across the U.S. and Asia that are leaders in AI, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality. The importance and resources most companies allocate for developing technical skills over the much needed soft skills are damaging business growth, not to mention society," says Play-Rx CEO and Co-Founder Bobby Alexis. "Skills through technology growth will continue to be commoditized. But your ability to interact with others, these human skills, will be highly sought out. That's what we do. Play-Rx is creating a landscape of emotionally attuned leaders and workers in a novel way."
Join Play-Rx in their movement to create that exact landscape. Where workers thrive with a deep sense of curiosity and engagement. Where leaders lead with compassion and integrity. Where organizations have the best tools to identify and nourish talent. And guess what? All that without one trust fall.
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