Leadership Development Training and Business Simulations

Leadership Development Training and Business Simulations

We specialize in combining Leadership Development training utilizing business training simulations. Lately, the demand for this has suddenly exploded. In the past 6 months, we have almost focused completely on Leadership Development Simulations. The question is, "Why now?"

Talking with various training and development managers, the clear answer seems to be, "To engage and demonstrate the importance in an effort to gain acceptance and increase adoption."

Some of the comments we've heard are:
"In the past, we've utilized various exercises and engagements, but they are all still within the theory realm and don't apply to the business fundamentals."
"We haven't been able to demonstrate the importance to the business. It's always just been on a trust us basis."
"Everyone knows leadership is important, but it's impact on the business hasn't been considered. It's now become essential we demonstrate this."

We all know that leadership is critical and unique internal competencies are fundamental to effective strategic development and execution. But trying to connect these to business results are exceptionally difficult. Thus, we're often asked, "How do you do this." Unfortunately, the answer is even harder to articulate. In a sense, this is the baseline formula:

Business performance = (+/-1 */ / leadership effectiveness)

The missing ingredient that can't be explained is each business's uniqueness. This is one of those intangible capabilities where we are able to take business, cultural, market, execution uniqueness and apply it to leadership training. This is the indescribably piece of the equation that we are somehow able to translate. Basically, its a combination of education, business, training, and technology that comes naturally to us.

But, if you have the basic understanding the leadership effectiveness influences business training and growth, creating a business leadership simulation is only a few additional steps when combined with a bit of creativity and tenacity.

Not sure this article helps, but it gives insights into the thinking that goes into developing a business leadership simulation training program. Thoughts?
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Business Training Simulation- Go'in Green!

In our continued effort to deliver a more green training and development business training simulation, Simulation Development Group is proud to announce that we have cut our computing power requirements in half (sort of) with little to no loss in productivity. How can we create custom training simulations with half the power? Creativity and a good idea from one of our developers. Turn off the processors! What? How can this be done and still be able to use the computer? Well this is quite simple, but takes a little explanation.

First, it's important to understand that we use very powerful computers to create our business training simulations. We use Apple's Mac Pro line of computers.

Yup, we're a Mac shop. Why? Because its far less maintenance and less maintenance means lower costs to our training simulation customers. Yes, of course our business simulations can run on any platform. We just prefer to write them on the Mac.

Anyway, since we write our business simulations on a Mac Pro, there are actually 4-8 processors in each computer (yup, these are very high end computers). This generates a lot of heat and consumes a lot of electricity. Both are bad for the environment. So, why not just turn them off? Well, because it's actually not that easy. After-all, there are no processor switches on the side of the machine.

To drop the energy consumption in half and still be able to create a custom business simulation,

we had to create an application that turns off cores, but still routes data through the right memory buss(es) and caches. We did this.

This means we can continue to create our custom leadership training simulation, business games, business acumen simulations, and business training simulations without any loss in productivity. When it comes time for the training simulation to compile, we simply turn on the additional processors on the fly. Just like a light switch.

So the next time you're thinking about a leadership training simulation, business acumen simulation, corporate development simulation, business training simulation, or any business simulation, know that we are continuing to find creative and innovative ways to reduce our footprint and still delivery the best darn business training simulation available on this big beautiful blue marble we call home.

Have a green day!
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