![]() ![]() Players control Phillip (and during sections following the game's first major area, Leg Horse) as he departs from his home in Scum Vullage to search for the City of Forms, a city described as the origin of everything within the game's world. Space Funeral is notable for its parodies of the horror and role-playing game genres, its crude art style, and frequent use of blood in dialogue, graphics, and thematics. The short game was created using RPG Maker 2003, and centers around a boy named Phillip, who leaves home to save his world from a mysterious corruption. What’s the best way to climb a mountain? The boldest of us would prefer to attack it at its steepest point.Space Funeral is an independently created role-playing video game and art game by Irish developer thecatamites, Stephen Gillmurphy. But the flatter track that goes around the back of the mountain still gets you there. It might even provide you with new and delightful views you weren’t expecting. ![]() This tenuous metaphor introduces a key theme: there is more than one way to get to ‘the top’, whatever the top looks like for you. In the traditional work model, you start at the bottom and ascend your way to the top in a pre-ordained series of steps.īut in today’s working world, we have the joy of choosing our own route to success and happiness in our work lives. At Learnerbly, we believe that progression is going anywhere but backwards (and even backwards is sometimes okay ?). In this article, we’re looking at the benefits of lateral moves for your people’s career progression and growth. ![]() To put it as plainly as possible, a lateral move is when an employee shifts their position to assume new responsibilities on the same career level. This can mean moving to a different company, but generally speaking and specific to this article, lateral moves refer to internal shifts in the same company, often to a new team. This begs the question, how do we foster good career development and progression? It’s something we care about at Learnerbly, and happily enough, have already written about. So do check out our best advice on career development plans, what they are, why they are important, and how you develop them. Why Lateral Moves are Great for Your People Or you could look at the frameworks we suggest for making career progression everyone’s responsibility. Lateral moves are a great way to foster continuous learning. When making a lateral move, an employee will need to learn new skills and come across new experiences. Lateral moves help people discover new careers If you have people who love diving in and giving things a go, they may find a lateral move suitable to their learning goals. We’ve all probably observed a colleague’s work and thought, “wow, I’d love to try that!” Maybe you’re in Customer Service but have always wanted to try your hand at content writing. You might even know someone in Sales who wants to have a go at Partnerships. Or what about the person in Ops who always thought they’d like to get into the People function?Ī lateral move empowers you to scratch that itch. It can take you through a career path you’re more suited to and interested in. Two of the above scenarios recently occurred at Learnerbly. And they’ve allowed for those people to pursue growth and progression in their own way.Ĭrispina, our now People Operations Manager started at Learnerbly as a Client Admin Associate. She had expressed interest in the People team early and set up shadowing and learning opportunities with them. ![]() When a vacancy came up in that team, Crispina applied and blew the hiring team away. It was a great move for her and the organisation as a whole. She is now pursuing a career path she’s more interested in which is exactly what a lateral move like this is for. More recently, Luke has made the leap from sales to partnerships. ![]()
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