The Brief

As a leader, how can you prepare for high-stakes conversations in a safe environment?

BodySwaps have partnered with Corporate DNA Consulting, a global leadership firm with an expertise in performance psychology, to explore how VR could be used to improve soft skills training and deploy experiential leadership simulations at scale.

 

 

 

 

Our Approach

In this BodySwaps simulation, you’re having a performance review meeting with David, an employee with a less-than-perfect record.

You will get to listen and respond to David, using your own words, before stepping in his shoes to listen back to your performance from his perspective. Getting a new picture of how you are reacting and behaving during that situation, you will be able to build self-awareness and improve your behavior.

 

 

 

 

Here’s how it works:

After picking your virtual body, a suited man in his mid-thirties, you enter an office in a swanky London City building. First, you listen and ask questions to David about his performance. Then it’s your turn to respond to him directly, using your own voice and body-language, moving the controllers and using the VR headset’s microphone. Like in real life, this is not a “choose A or B” simulation, you have to think on your feet and the pressure to perform is real.

 

 

 

 

Once done, you hit the body-swapping button and find yourself in David’s body, watching and listening to yourself back from his perspective. You get to experience what it feels like to be on the receiving end of your own management style.

Finally, you access analytics about your performance, leveraging AI for semantics and speech emotion data to give you personalised feedback and tips. You can decide to share a video recording of your performance with anyone or to just have another go until you’re happy with it.

 

 

 

 

STUDIO: BodySwaps