Behavioral simulations mimic the realities of organizational life…but with a little more fun

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What is a Behavioral Simulation?

  • It's about making A connection

    We design and deploy a ‘hands-on’ activity that mirrors the way work gets done (or doesn’t get done) at the company. The ‘game’ forces participants to collaborate, compete, communicate, and connect with their colleagues in a meaningful and impactful way.

  • It's about making THE connection

    The most important aspect is the debrief, where our skilled facilitators make the connection back to work. Whether that is a resource problem, a communication breakdown, too many silos, lack of vision, or an organizational culture issue, the ‘game’ only makes sense if we connect it to the real world.

How a Behavioral Simulation Works

Executive Education

For members of the executive education program who come together twice a year, we deploy a behavioral simulation that forces them to work together in a resource-constrained, high-pressure, time-limited environment while simultaneously competing and collaborating with the teams around them.

This mimics their reality because while they will do the majority of their work during the 2-year program in their teams, their colleagues outside the boundaries of their teams have valuable information, connections, and resources that could be useful.

These teams will be working closely together - but from around the world - to accomplish their work. The innate teambuilding and trust building that happens in our simulation becomes the foundation for their time together as students and colleagues.

Senior Leaders

For a large offsite with senior leaders from around the country, we deploy a ‘game’ that forces strategic thinking, sharing of resources, communication across divisions, and a unifying goal. While the ‘game’ includes playing cards, fake money, and leis, the connection to work life is palpable.

Each division has multiple teams, and each team has multiple employees. Ultimately they are reaching for the same goal, and therefore need to communicate and collaborate to strategically use their resources. But we mix in some chaos to further mimic the reality of corporate behavior: we require team members to relocate, we reduce their resources, and impose other unforeseeable forces.

This requires resilience, vision, and communication, and inspires each division to work together. Just like corporate life.