Leadership is one of those skills that can make you a valuable hire anywhere. It sets you apart, showcases your potential, and generally commands attention. Unfortunately, there’s no clear path to developing great leadership during your higher ed life. Sure, you can take the helm of group projects, but you can’t exactly walk into a lecture and walk out with a managerial stride. So, how exactly can you ensure that you’re leadership-ready for your first round of job interviews? Surprisingly, getting stuck into campus gaming could be all it takes.

Gamer kids don’t necessarily seem like natural leadership types, but looks can be deceiving. Regular gaming sessions throughout college can teach you pretty much everything a leader needs to know. If you don’t believe us, keep on reading to find out about three key lessons you might encounter as you play.

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# 1 - The Importance of Leading a Virtual Squad

The ability to control, oversee, and direct a team is an essential leadership skill, and guess where you can learn how to do precisely that? During multiplayer gameplay, of course. Games like Palworld are fully equipped to teach you general team dynamics, resource management, and task delegation. Palworld server hosts even have the power to choose their own mods and maps. It’s like running an office, but from the comfort of your college gaming chair.

Games like these have become especially important for leadership lessons in an age where remote teams are commonplace. If you can organize distant players to quite literally run a Palworld community, then you can probably apply those skills to in-office delegations.

# 2 - Performance Under Pressure

Leaders can’t just hand tasks to their team and forget about them – they also have to rectify last-minute mistakes, redo entire projects before presentation, and placate angry clients. That’s a lot of pressure, but it probably doesn’t come close to the pressure you’ll experience while trying to survive in Call of Duty.

First-person shooters in particular require fast thinking in extreme conditions where there are risks all around. Unsurprisingly, then, countless studies have highlighted that gamers are far faster at processing information and making quick but accurate decisions. So, even if you’ve got an angry client marching right up to your desk to demand explanations for something you know nothing about, you’ll be in a better position to evade fatalities.

# 3 - Solidifying Strategic Thinking

Managers need to think fast and strategically to ensure everything from financial security to workplace efficiency. What’s more, they’ll often need to adapt their plans along the way to ensure the best outcomes possible.

These high-pressure strategic plans are precisely what gamers learn from games like Age of Empires and Civilization, where every move is literally life or death. Within these games, you'll learn how to effectively allocate resources, delegate tasks, and change your plans in an instant, all with an imminent threat breathing down your neck!

Compared to that, success in the workplace is sure to feel like a walk in the park!