--- title: "Lift VR: leadership VR for difficult conversations at work" description: "Lift VR: PTR's leadership title built with Kinspace. Step into a lift with someone who needs something difficult from you and answer in your own voice." canonical: https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/lift-vr --- [XR](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr) / [PTR VR Library](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library) # Lift VR You step into a lift, and so does someone who needs something difficult from you. Lift VR builds leaders' ability to respond to sensitive situations in their own voice, designed in collaboration with PTR's diversity partner Kinspace. A lift lobby remark, replies in view. Facing a colleague in the lift. ## Seconds to answer, in your own voice A leader has seconds to respond when something sensitive is said. Lift VR asks you to personalise and adapt your own response rather than pick a scripted line. That is the practice: courageous decision-making, said out loud, in a space that stays psychologically safe. ## What changes for your organisation Leaders who have felt the cost of speaking up, and practised paying it, respond differently when it is real. Leaders confer, and the decision gets named. ### Courage you can rehearse Speaking up in a sensitive situation costs something. The scenes let a leader feel that cost before it is real, and find their own words for it. After the ride, a reflection panel asks how you think you will go next time, so each session ends with a commitment rather than a score. ## Decisions a leader gets seconds to make Delegation that gets pushed back, a probation conversation, a request for an adjustment: the lift is one setting for a moment leaders meet everywhere. Delegation, and the pushback that follows. A probation review, from the manager's chair. A request for an adjustment, answered. > "Virtual Reality offers a unique and powerful training tool that can immerse individuals in realistic, high-pressure environments without the associated risks." Simon Lowe CEO, People Tech Revolution. [Let's be prepared, Global Best Practice Group, August 2024](https://globalbestpracticegroup.com/vr/) ## How a session runs Lift VR runs between 4 and 10 minutes, and PTR delivers Library sessions with a facilitated group debrief. Some features need an internet connection; the Library collects no personal data, though it may collect app-improvement and analytics data. Lift VR Snippet ### Inside the lift PTR's short clip filmed inside the actual Lift VR experience. It carries no dialogue or captions: the lift, the person, and the wait. In a session, the facilitator sets the scene, the leader rides, and the group names the decision afterwards. ### A Library session for leaders A facilitator, a scene in a room that looks like theirs, a decision, and a debrief where the decision is named. A colleague waits for your reply. Rehearsing feedback with a facilitator. Handing over between sessions. ## Built with Kinspace Lift VR was designed in collaboration with PTR's diversity partner Kinspace. Unlike Everyday Inclusion, Finding Common Ground and Speak to Me Normally, it is not part of the Equal Reality VR suite; it is its own vertical within the PTR VR Library. A promotion conversation in a corner office. ### A diversity partner in the build Kinspace brought the sensitive situations leaders actually face; PTR built the lift they play out in. The title asks each leader to adapt their own response, which is why the partnership sits inside the scenes rather than in a foreword. ## The conversations leaders bring to it Return to work, mentoring, an accessibility request: sensitive moments that arrive without warning, rehearsed with a facilitator in the room. A return-to-work conversation. A mentoring conversation. An accessibility request, taken seriously. ## The rest of the Library The other Library titles, each built for one conversation, and the PTR pages that put them to work. [Everyday Inclusion. Unconscious bias, microaggressions and intersectionality, felt first and then discussed.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/everyday-inclusion) [Finding Common Ground. Discrimination in a customer-facing workplace, and what a team does about it.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/finding-common-ground) [Speak to Me Normally. Social anxiety at work, felt from the inside.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/speak-to-me-normally) [Mind Shift VR. Glass Ceilings and Inclusive Perspectives, set in virtual workplaces.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/mind-shift) [Immersive training and roleplay. How PTR builds practice for the hard human moments.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/training/vr-training-and-roleplay) [Partners. Kinspace and the other partners PTR builds with.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/partners) Want to bring Lift VR to your own team? [Open the contact form](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library/lift-vr#contact) Ask our CEO Simon Lowe’s Digital Twin a question ## Sources Each source, linked to the original. ### [Let's be prepared](https://globalbestpracticegroup.com/vr/) Global Best Practice Group, August 2024 The interview the quote above comes from, on rehearsing high-pressure moments without the risk. ### [Lift VR Snippet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpr3EvEjmg) People Tech Revolution on YouTube The clip embedded above, filmed inside the experience. Related PTR work Related PTR work - [Kinspace & PTR's partners](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/partners) - [How Library sessions are delivered](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/everyday-inclusion-cornell) - [Workplace & enterprise](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/industries/workplace-enterprise) - [The PTR VR Library](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr/ptr-vr-library) - [Try it in the browser on Labs](https://labs.peopletechrevolution.com/)