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The Business Simulations

Content specific, the Business Series offer a combination of skill learning and group process.

Designed to teach specific skills and processes, the Business Simulations also provide teams with a valuable group decision-making exercise that tests the team's ability to work together and arrive at choices everyone can live with.

Based on the principles of learning through enquiry and discovery, the Business Simulations use research based methods for teaching critical skills.

As with the Survival Simulations, the Business Simulations require each participant to complete the exercise individually and then as a team. When compared to the expert's answers as part of the debrief, this provides an excellent test of the team's ability to work together to arrive at solutions that are of high quality with high acceptance.

Leader's Guides are available for each simulation, providing administration guidelines, the expert's answers and detailed debriefing instructions.

The Business Simulations are:

COACH Co-Achieving:

Challenge: How do you build achievement motivation in a group? What coaching methods will get a poor performing team to produce excellent results? This exercise encourages thinking about the values that underpin achievement motivation. COACH is designed to complement the Life Styles Inventory (LSI) and so requires Accreditation.
Activity: From a list of 54 coaching activities and behaviours, select those that will motivate the team to perform.
Time: 2.5 to 4 hours

Project Planning Simulation

Challenge: How do you get (and keep) a project running smoothly - from start to finish?
Activity: Sequence the tasks involved in planning, organising, implementing and controlling a project.
Time: 1.5 to 2 hours

Assumptions and Values

Challenge: What assumptions and values do members of your team hold about management and motivation? What are the assumptions and values that build performance? What are the implications of incorrect assumptions and values?
Activity: From a list of 30 commonly held assumptions about management and motivation, select the 11 most important. Then rate level of commitment to each.
Time: 1.5 to 2 hours

Meeting Effectiveness Simulation

Challenge: What are the do's and don'ts of running a meeting during which something is actually accomplished?
Activity: Sequence the steps involved in planning, organising, conducting and evaluating an effective meeting.
Time: 1.5 to 2.5 hours

Turnaround Simulation

Challenge: Your company is ailing-and failing. What can you do to bring it back to life and get it on the path to success?
Activity: This intensive exercise is like four simulations in one. Use it with "graduates" of other business simulations OR sophisticated teams with solid business experience. Make "do or die" decisions in six key areas that influence organisational performance: Assumptions and Values, Problem Identification, Establishing Objectives, Action Steps, Approach to Management, Feedback and Communication.
Time: 5 to 7 hours