We Help Companies Pilot VR – Use VR Hire First to Run Small Pilots

2023-09-13T18:03:13+01:00September 4th, 2023|Team Building, VR Hire, VR Leadership, VR Training|

Making the Decision to Explore VR Applications is Easier With No Capital Investment If your organisation is wondering whether to use VR for training, meetings, or assessments, most companies start with a small pilot. However, even a small pilot can have substantial costs, with enterprise headsets typically costing around £800 each. So for a group [...]

Is Virtual Reality the Future of Team Building?

2022-05-25T15:36:40+01:00May 25th, 2022|Team Building|

Virtual reality (VR) has already been seen to be effective in terms of improving work related skills, such as self-efficacy, as well as lessening symptoms of work-related anxiety. All these skills and more can affect the effectiveness of team building, and here at VRE we aim to maximise team building capabilities. Why is Team Building [...]

Virtual Reality as a Facilitator for Self-Efficacy

2022-03-15T13:44:03+00:00March 15th, 2022|Team Building, VR Leadership|

Self efficacy plays an important role in motivation and how well individuals take on new projects and tasks, VR has now been shown to help develop this important set of beliefs and further adds to the volume of research showcasing how VR can improve workplace effectiveness. We help teams develop their self-efficacy using the latest [...]

Do remote teams need virtual team building

2022-01-26T14:06:01+00:00January 26th, 2022|Team Building|

Virtual team-building events can offer teams a new way to connect, which is so needed at this time. This article will explore how work from home environments have affected employees' well-being and mental health. And we will also look at how virtual team-building events can support employee well-being during this time. In a recent YouGov [...]

Are Virtual Reality team shooters actually useful for VR team building?

2021-08-23T12:34:32+01:00August 4th, 2021|Blog, Team Building, VR Leadership, VR Training|

  On our travels around the world, we have tried many public virtual reality (VR) experiences and a large number of these use the team shooter format. On initial inspection this would seem a natural choice for group teamwork. Research (Ballestin et al, 2020) suggests that the mix of immersive gameplay and interesting tasks would [...]

Team Development Using VR – Efficiency, Trust and Synchronous Working

2021-08-23T13:03:52+01:00February 10th, 2021|Team Building|

Virtual teams have been defined as teams that rarely meet face to face and mainly communicate via email, or chat. These types of teams usually follow an asynchronously type of work, and have defining characteristics, such as a distribution of members across time, geography or both (Corbitt, Gardiner & Wright, 2004). Organizations can benefit greatly [...]

VR Team Building And The Ringelmann Effect

2021-08-23T13:04:27+01:00November 22nd, 2020|Blog, Team Building|

The Ringelmann Effect, also known as social loafing, was named after Maximilien Ringelmann, a French agricultural engineer born in the 1860’s (Kravitz & Martin, 1986). When examining the efficiency of groups at completing basic agricultural tasks, Ringelmann noted that as group size increased, the performance per individual decreased (Kravitz & Martin, 1986). In his rudimentary [...]

The Future Of Team Building Is VR

2021-08-23T13:41:25+01:00August 13th, 2020|Team Building|

Team building is the first step that needs to be taken when striving for developing high performance teams. A good amount of field research has showcased that team traits such as better interpersonal relationships, increased creativity, improved decision making and problem solving, are boosted through the practice of team –building activities. And this is reasonable, [...]

Team Transparency: A delicate but winning formula

2021-08-23T12:19:54+01:00April 16th, 2020|Team Building|

  Beyond logistics In contemporary tech-driven, dynamic markets, jobs have become even more complex and agile. Agility requires collective intelligence, that is people working together in innovative -sometimes disruptive- ways. Indeed, firms’ revenue and sustained competitive advantage are now realized through teamwork, not 'lone wolfs'. What is more, organizational success is achieved not through any [...]

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