Talent Development / Future leader programme with Online Business Simulation

About talent development and Future leader programmes

Many companies create in-house development programs where they can offer their talented employees learning opportunities, rewarding experiences and challenging assignments for talented employees. Using development programs employees are empowered with tools, resources and knowledge, which they can use to perform at the highest level, and they are provided with guidance from experienced professionals or mentors. Talent development programmes usually provide opportunity to rotate among functional areas for more experience, to confront emerging problems of various types, and to be assigned with unfamiliar and challenging duties.

Talent development and Future leader programmes usually last 1-3 years depending on depth and complexity. Our platform can be used both before, during and after the programme as a supplementary part of these talent development and Future leader programmes, as we explain below:

Before the programme - What skills should we improve?

Employers can use our Online Business simulation platform as a development centre to find the areas where each employee needs development. In this case, the results of the simulation training sessions can be used to tailor educational and training programs for the needs and roles of the specific employees, as each employee is unique. With the help of our platform you can evaluate the weak spots of the employees and create individual development plans for the particular employee. Talent development and Future leader programmes can be used to target focus areas of specific competences, management skills and different soft skill elements like creating and giving presentations.

After the programme - What did you learn? Prove it in a simulation!

You can also use our simulation platform in a follow-up re-evaluation programme at the end of certain different phases of the development programme. This way you can evaluate the participants’ development in certain focus areas, but our platform offers interactive ways to use it as a playful closing event of a talent development and Future leader programme, too.
ur platform can also be used for enhancing teamwork and providing experiences for participants among different professional focus areas simultaneously, highlighting specified educational elements, which can be personalized for the company’s professional areas.

The training includes

Rewarding experiences
Challenging assignments and risk taking
Rotation of functional areas
Opportunities to learn about each functional area’s difficulties and challenges
Focused topical exercises

Participant Learning Outcomes

Understanding of the different functional areas;
Opportunities to push themselves in various functional areas, just as they usually do in talent development programmes, therefore participants can face different kinds of problems and risks;
If the platform is used before the main development programme, then organizers can create personalized training programmes based on the participant’s capabilities. Our simulation platform can be used to evaluate individual strengths and weaknesses, allowing the trainer to tailor education programmes to the participant’s needs.

Who should attend?

Such courses are designed for the participants of corporate talent development and future leader programmes, but some academic programmes can also use our platform as a supplementary chapter or an introduction to the specific programme.

Suggested training outlines

Agenda #1: After the programme – What did you learn? Prove it in a simulation!

Summarize the development programme’s lessons and consequences
Introducing the simulation platform, assigning teams and roles to the participants
Setting targets for the teams
Use the simulation as an extended case study, focusing on topics of the talent development or future leader programme
Other focused topical exercises (e.g. analysis of financial result, preparation of business plans)

Agenda #2: Before the programme – What skills should we improve?

Introduce the talent development or future leader programme’s missions and processes
Introduction of the learning environment, explaining the rules of the simulation
Set focused topical targets for the teams
Use the simulation as an extended case studies, tailored to your needs
Assess participants’ performances and identify individual strengths and weaknesses
Give valuation and feedback
Creating and assigning personalized development programmes for the participants.

Agenda #3: Combination of the above scenarios. – Examine participants’ skills and improve where necessary

Our platform can also be organised in multiple sessions, so the trainer can offer 1.5-3 hours long sessions for the participants throughout the talent development or future leader programme. They can either run a different short case study in each session, or use one case study throughout the whole programme by maintaining team structures and simulation outcomes from session to session.