The development of socio-emotional competences through simulation and gaming favours interrelationships - and interrelationships are the crucial mechanism in distributed leadership, cooperation-collaboration, and teamwork.

This chapter proposes a play-based approach to executive training. The chapter evaluates the development of the learning approach by using Synergy, a play-based and experiential learning simulator. 

A summary of:  Cooperation in complexity.
Cooplexity, a model of collaboration in complexity for management in times of uncertainty and change.

Gaming and simulation combine cognition and emotion, to allow participants to understand and integrate dynamic and complex contexts.

This article reviews what trust is, and how to build it. The role of trust in a long-term committed relationship is crucial to establishing and maintaining a collaborative approach.