Leadership Competancies in Action

Let’s start with a chart. Here’s an example of somewhat standard leadership competencies:

Now that we have the great big colorful competencies up there, let’s assume the following:

• Your company has its own leadership behavior model (if not, that’s ok too)
• You have an entire program built or under construction that delivers this model (or close)
• You are unsure how to blend measurement and accountability into the program.... no prob!

You and/or your team are probably the pros at delivering the content. If not, don’t ask us :^) there are companies far better than SimDev to help with these competencies (ex: Caliper or PDI). Deliver the content as usual in your superb style.

The simulation maps very closely to your existing business. This includes market, internal, external, and cultural uniqueness. The difference is that while the participants are under pressure to execute their business plan, a facilitator is watching how they exhibit leadership competencies. The net net is that if they are great at leadership, their business execution is very effective. If their leadership behavior is very poor, they have a very difficult time executing their business plan. Thus, they loose market share, loose income, and quickly learn how important it is to invest in leadership and their people.

Basically, to win the simulation, they will have to be very competent at the following:

Its simple, to win, a team must be competent and leadership, business, and execution (teamwork).

What better way to put in play what you have delivered? This gives them the opportunity to practice and see how the importance of this drives EBITDA.

Business Leadership Simulations are exciting, applicable, and an effective part of leadership development.

Thoughts?
- SimDevTeam