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Virtual Learning Simulations – The Game Changer
As COVID-19 continues to penetrate deeper into the fabric of our societies, businesses and
workplaces explore contactless means of doing business. In emerging South Asian
economies such as Pakistan, this has accelerated adoption of digital tools and applications
for e.g. Zoom as tech businesses attract more investment, regulatory support, and public
attention. An example of an industry hard hit by the ongoing pandemic is education,
learning & organizational development. While the industry continues to operate in
survivalist mode through digital communication platforms and laments over the loss of
physical classroom instruction, there is an urgency to innovate and develop learning
products that renews interest in skill development. Hence, we decided to introduce
simulations drivei in the marketplace.
Simulations – Translating Knowledge Into Action
Simulations are complex experiences translated in the form of an online interactive learning
interface. They often represent a snapshot of a scenario, for example a crisis situation in
need of timely, well informed decision. Within the context of the online platform,
participants engage actively, often in teams, to respond to the challenge at hand. These
challenges more often than not are based on real life scenarios with the added advantage of
interactivity and assessments. Most of the simulations have an inbuilt reward system that
scores participants based on successful completion of the assigned tasks. Fueled by
challenge, and charged by curiosity and reward, teams often find themselves diving deep in
problem solving, collaboration, with a renewed sense of team spirit. This encourages the
participants to take this fresh approach towards challenge and use it in their own
organizations in real life to solve real problems.
Simulations – Time Tested Tool for Skill Building
Simulation based games have been around for quite sometime. Notable games such as
Microsoft Flight Simulator, The Sims and F1 Simulator to name a few have created a
considerable following. These games have become the cornerstone of learning so much so
that F1 race car drivers use the simulations to keep their driving skills sharp when there is a
rainy day outside or when they don’t feel like training in an actual car. Similarly the aviation
industry uses simulation to assess new pilots before getting them inside a real cockpit.
At Sethi Learning & Company, we are excited to offer these simulations to foster workplace
learning in organisations across Pakistan
Leadership & Team Building Simulation
This full day simulation organizes participants into action packed teams that need to
cooperate to achieve the allocated team goal.
The twist: Goal conflict is inbuilt in the simulation. Can the leader ensure everyone is aligned
and heading in the same direction?
Emotional Intelligence Competencies: Conflict Management, Inspirational Leadership,
Teamwork
Learning Objectives:
- How to share information and make decisions when information is unequally shared between team members
- How leaders shape decision making and performance in time competitive environments
- How to deal with goal conflict when individuals have private goals that are not always aligned to a team's shared goals
- Understand how inefficient group processes compromise a team's ability to achieve its potential
- Role of the leaders for ensuring broader participation
Learning How to Network Effectively Simulation
This powerful simulation empowers your to teams realise their networking potential within
large social networks often comprising of people they don’t know. This also provokes active
thought on the importance of planning ahead when developing your social network.
The twist: Your auto-response- React First, Think Later
Emotional Intelligence Competencies: Inspirational Leadership, Influence
Learning Objectives:
- Strategic networking: If you need something from your network, do you just ask? Or is there a smarter way to network?
- Network Mapping: Thoughtfully thinking and planning networks
- Social Capital: A product of planning or circumstance?
Applied Strategy with Balanced Scorecard Simulation
This interactive simulation pushes teams to actively implement strategy using the concepts of
the balanced scorecard methodology. The simulation rewards teams when they demonstrate
the ability to align objectives, strategy, and action items.
The twist: The answers are out there, but are you aware?
Emotional Intelligence Competencies: Adaptibility, Teamwork
Learning Objectives:
- Create and implement a strategy map, develop a balanced scorecard, and use feedback from the balanced scorecard to adjust their implementation approach over a series of rounds.
- Synergise objectives, strategy, and action items
- Provoke macro thinking – think about how the pieces fit into the bigger whole
Decision Making in Crisis Simulation
How do you take fair and balanced decisions in time critical situations? Is your decision
making fair or tainted with cognitive biases? This simulation will push you in the turbulence
of stormy waters and force you to take critical time sensitive decisions. At the end, it will
take you into deep journey of self reflection as you become aware of the 4 cognitive biases
woven in the simulation design and how you became vulnerable to them without your
realization.
The twist: Psychological traps.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how individuals behave under pressure and how different people respond differently to pressure
- How cognitive biases impair decision making in time sensitive situations
- Fosters decisiveness and quick decision making
Marketing Simulation
In this highly interactive simulation, participants are tasked with building a customer-centric
strategy to drive business growth at a printing company a customer centric
approach.Equipped with a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) dashboard, they
gather and analyze detailed customer behaviour data, and make decisions about customer
acquisition and customer retention.
The twist: do you fish with a net in the largest sectors or do you work harder and use a spear
in the smallest sectors.
Emotional Intelligence Competencies: Teamwork
Learning Objectives:
- Applied thinking of the concepts of CLV (Customer Lifetime Value), Customer Lifecycle, Customer Acquistion & Customer Rentention
- Learn to use how CRM dashboards work and how can they be geared to grow a profitable customer base