  Given that experience is a pivotal dimension of learning processes in the
field of leadership, the ongoing and unresolved issue is how such experiential
moments could be provided when developing leadership skills and competencies.
Role-plays and business simulations are widely used in this context as they are
said to teach relevant social leadership skills, like those required by
everyday communication to followers, by decision-making on compensation,
evaluating performance, dealing with conflicts, or terminating contracts.
However, the effectiveness of simulations can highly vary depending on the
counterpart's ability to act in the given scenarios. In our project, we deal
with how immersive media could create experiential learning based on
simulations for leadership development. In recent years different variations of
extended reality got significant technological improvements. Head-mounted
displays are an easy and cost-efficient way to present high-resolution virtual
environments. For groups of people that are part of an immersive experience,
cave automatic virtual environments offer an excellent trade-off between actual
exchange with other humans and interaction with virtual content simultaneously.
The work presented is based on developing a user-centered simulation of
leadership situations for cave automatic virtual environments and includes the
results of a first usability study. In the future, the presented results can
help to support the development and evaluation of simulated situations for cave
automatic virtual environments with an emphasis on leadership-related
scenarios.
