The Leadership Game – Discover the Underlying Issue Limiting Your Results

You suspect the team is not fully aligned. Or, you suspect the issue rests with management. Guessing is expensive. Ruth Easterling uses a proven, engaging method — "The Leadership Game", developed from the work of John C. Maxwell — to help you see the real constraint without turning the day into an interrogation.

The experience is designed for 4 to 10 team members in a roundtable setting. It fosters trust, communication, and collaboration while it asks pointed questions about how the group actually works together.

Who Gets the Most Value from This Session

The game is a strong fit for:

• Corporate staff retreats that need substance, not only recreation
• Entrepreneurs whose first team has outgrown informal habits
• Small businesses that cannot afford another year of mixed messages
• Leadership teams that talk past one another in meetings
• Nonprofit boards and community organizations that need shared values in action

The Game That's Not a Game. It Is a Guided Exercise Toward Leadership.

Warning: this is not a leadership seminar.  It is not a lecture or a PowerPoint presentation. It is an engaging, interactive, structured exercise. Built on a dice-and-cards format, the game invites candid answers about recent events in your organization — including the last 6 months — that shaped culture, trust, and results. Participants can speak with more honesty because the format lowers defensiveness.

Over the course of 90 to 120 minutes, Ruth Easterling facilitates the room so the group:

• Names gaps and strengths in leadership behavior
• Practices clearer communication in real time
• Builds trust around shared values instead of assumed values
• Sees where personality differences help and where they collide

You may run the game after a DiSC assessment or on its own. DiSC explains style. The game reveals how those styles showed up on actual decisions, conflicts, and missed handoffs.

The Leadership Benefits Begin Even During the Fun

Ruth Easterling is a certified John Maxwell Team leadership coach and speaker. Facilitation skill is the difference between an enjoyable game and a useful, practical, educational experience. After the session, she debriefs with the business owner or leader, reviews issues that surfaced, and outlines practical next steps.

You will leave with more than a group photo. You will leave with language for what is working, what is stuck, and what to address first — coaching, a workshop, structure changes, and/or a follow-up conversation with a specific pair of teammates.

Book the Session That Turns Insight into a Plan

Contact Ruth Easterling to schedule The Leadership Game for your next retreat, board gathering, or leadership meeting. Ask for available dates, ideal group size, and whether to include DiSC reports before the game. Reserve your session now while the calendar still has openings for a 90- to 120-minute facilitated experience.

Citations

• Maxwell Leadership: maxwellleadership.com

• John C. Maxwell leadership principles: Maxwell Leadership Certified Team

• Ruth Easterling: eSpeakers profile