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.