Hello SimDevGroup Community-
Does your organization have a slight problem with business silos? Are you looking to bust those silos? A business simulation or leadership simulation may be able to help you. How can a business simulation really help you reduce organizational silos or business silos? Its quite simple: Using business simulations for business silos enables the participants in the business silos to live the life of participants in other business silos. In other words, a simulation will enable participants to live and feel the impact their business silo has on another. The result is that participants will naturally understand how a non siloed way of working is superior. They'll also have a better understanding how their decisions effects other divisions within the organization.
Learn about business simulations for business silos:
We actually have a video about how a business simulation or leadership simulation can help you get an overview of how a simulation can help with your business silo problem.
> Learn about business simulations and business silos.
Its a humorous video, but actually helps get your head around business silos and using a leadership simulation or business training simulation to help you.
If you have business silos and are looking for a great way to engage and make an impact on reducing your organizational silos, think about using a leadership simulation or business simulation to help you reduce your silos.
Hope this helps!
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Leadership Simulations: How to Measure Success
Hello SimDevGroup Community-
A common question we get is, "When it comes to measuring success, how do we know when leadership simulations are successful?" This is a great question. We have some suggestions for ways to measure if your business simulation for leadership development was successful.
How to measure the success of leadership simulations:
1. Give a brief formal questionnaire before your leadership development program. Ask participants 5 simple questions that will help measure their pre-program understanding of your leadership competency model.
2. Deliver any or all of your leadership development simulations. You probably only have 1, but in some cases, this might be broken into sections. Deliver all of your leadership training programs.
3. Give a very similar, but different questionnaire at the end. You need to make sure it's asking the same questions, just with different verbiage. The goal is to get a pre and post program assessment that measures the knowledge of your leadership competency model.
Now, just compare the results. You'll be able to very quickly get an actual percentage increase (hopefully) of how effective your leadership simulations are. This is very tangible and a useful way to measure success.
We hope this helps. Feel free to contact us if you'd like more tips and tricks.
A common question we get is, "When it comes to measuring success, how do we know when leadership simulations are successful?" This is a great question. We have some suggestions for ways to measure if your business simulation for leadership development was successful.
How to measure the success of leadership simulations:
1. Give a brief formal questionnaire before your leadership development program. Ask participants 5 simple questions that will help measure their pre-program understanding of your leadership competency model.
2. Deliver any or all of your leadership development simulations. You probably only have 1, but in some cases, this might be broken into sections. Deliver all of your leadership training programs.
3. Give a very similar, but different questionnaire at the end. You need to make sure it's asking the same questions, just with different verbiage. The goal is to get a pre and post program assessment that measures the knowledge of your leadership competency model.
Now, just compare the results. You'll be able to very quickly get an actual percentage increase (hopefully) of how effective your leadership simulations are. This is very tangible and a useful way to measure success.
We hope this helps. Feel free to contact us if you'd like more tips and tricks.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Global Business Simulation: Tips To Execution
Hello SimDevGroup Community:
Are you rolling out a global business simulation program? Looking for some tips from a company that has facilitated a global business simulation on 3 different continents at the same time?
Top 3 Tips to Managing A Global Business Simulation:
Tip 1: Give yourself extra time! You are going to find that facilitating a global business simulation takes longer than you think. This applies to almost every aspect of the program. You'll run into electricity issues, language issues, time different issues, concept issues, etc... Just count on everything taking longer. Build in time buffers!
Tip 2: Get help from local contacts- When you facilitate a global business simulation, get assistance from contacts in the local geography. They will be able to assist with transportation, setup, etc... You'll find the local contact invaluable!
Tip 3: Get ready for lack of sleep. With the combination of time changes, travel, and setup, a global business simulation will take the sleep right of you. Our tip? Drink lots of water and remember, you will catch up on sleep eventually.
We can't emphasize enough the fact that running a global business simulation is challenging. We also can't emphasize enough that its also very rewarding. Have a great time, learn from the culture(s), and don't forget to drink a lot of water.
We hope this helps!
Are you rolling out a global business simulation program? Looking for some tips from a company that has facilitated a global business simulation on 3 different continents at the same time?
Top 3 Tips to Managing A Global Business Simulation:
Tip 1: Give yourself extra time! You are going to find that facilitating a global business simulation takes longer than you think. This applies to almost every aspect of the program. You'll run into electricity issues, language issues, time different issues, concept issues, etc... Just count on everything taking longer. Build in time buffers!
Tip 2: Get help from local contacts- When you facilitate a global business simulation, get assistance from contacts in the local geography. They will be able to assist with transportation, setup, etc... You'll find the local contact invaluable!
Tip 3: Get ready for lack of sleep. With the combination of time changes, travel, and setup, a global business simulation will take the sleep right of you. Our tip? Drink lots of water and remember, you will catch up on sleep eventually.
We can't emphasize enough the fact that running a global business simulation is challenging. We also can't emphasize enough that its also very rewarding. Have a great time, learn from the culture(s), and don't forget to drink a lot of water.
We hope this helps!
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Leadership Simulations: Tips To Implementing
Hello SimDevGroup Community-
Thinking of implementing Leadership Simulations? Excellent. How about some tips of ideas to think about?
Here are our top 5 tips for taking on leadership simulations:
Tip 1: Ask yourself, "Can I really simulate leadership?" The answer is probably no. But you will be able to setup business simulations that will enable participants to experience the impact of effective leadership on the business
Tip 2: Don't try to do everything! Take one aspect of leadership and one aspect of the business and map the two together. Once you've successfully mapped the leadership impact, move on to an additional one. After awhile, you'll have a good handful which is manageable.
Tip 3: Look around at other leadership simulations. Chances are, there are others in the industry who have done this already. Call some others, look around, and see what you think. You'll quickly realize what works and doesn't for you.
Tip 4: Talk to leaders within your company. Ask them specifically what they would like others to learn within the organization. You will begin to see patterns. From there, go back to tip 2 and make certain you've mapped the appropriate leadership skills.
Tip 5: Think if leadership simulations are really a training priority within the organization. These are complex animals and there may be lower hanging fruit that has equal or greater levels of importance.
Overall, when thinking about business simulation exercises, think about integrating a leadership component into the mix. This will help with succession planning and effective leadership development programs.
Hope this helps!
Thinking of implementing Leadership Simulations? Excellent. How about some tips of ideas to think about?
Here are our top 5 tips for taking on leadership simulations:
Tip 1: Ask yourself, "Can I really simulate leadership?" The answer is probably no. But you will be able to setup business simulations that will enable participants to experience the impact of effective leadership on the business
Tip 2: Don't try to do everything! Take one aspect of leadership and one aspect of the business and map the two together. Once you've successfully mapped the leadership impact, move on to an additional one. After awhile, you'll have a good handful which is manageable.
Tip 3: Look around at other leadership simulations. Chances are, there are others in the industry who have done this already. Call some others, look around, and see what you think. You'll quickly realize what works and doesn't for you.
Tip 4: Talk to leaders within your company. Ask them specifically what they would like others to learn within the organization. You will begin to see patterns. From there, go back to tip 2 and make certain you've mapped the appropriate leadership skills.
Tip 5: Think if leadership simulations are really a training priority within the organization. These are complex animals and there may be lower hanging fruit that has equal or greater levels of importance.
Overall, when thinking about business simulation exercises, think about integrating a leadership component into the mix. This will help with succession planning and effective leadership development programs.
Hope this helps!
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