How We Do It
In essence we:
- Understand your strategy and strategic drivers
- Run immersive business simulations for managers, staff and sales people
- Apply the learning in a bespoke way to your business during the workshop
- Deliver a minimum 10X ROI through Profit Improvement Projects within two months of the workshop
- Support delegates learning and knowledge retention for one year after the workshop, using our Digital Coach process.
Our business training workshops combine immersive action-learning simulations and financial literacy, with a practical delivery and implementation style. This enables your staff to take a fun and interactive role in their learning experience. The same way a fighter pilot hones his or her skills in a flight simulator, your sales and management teams will hone their business decision-making skills in our business simulations.
In our simulations, competing teams address increasingly complex opportunities and challenges. Teams make decisions with the resources they have, implement these decisions, measure the outcomes and financial results, and then reflect on what worked and what needs to be improved. This provides a safe learning environment where mistakes are encouraged and are a powerful part of the group’s learning process. The principles learned are then applied to business opportunities to drive real and measurable outcomes.
We aim to achieve a 70:20:10 time split in the learning journey. This is 70% learning from experience, 20% learning from others and 10% structured learning.
These simulations are used to cascade your strategy and business drivers throughout your organisation. Profit improvement projects are implemented and key learning points from the training are cemented over the next year, by our Digital Coach process.
We supplement the business acumen knowledge with key managerial, supervisory and sales related workshops to ensure more well-rounded managers or sales teams.
Workshops
Business Fundamentals Workshop
INTRODUCTION We partner with key executives internally to drive immediate and sustainable change in business decision-making within your management team. These improvements will be aligned to ROCE or EBITDA improvement strategies the exco has. […]
Managing Profitably
Middle and senior managers will be able to add greater value to your business by using tools to identify and evaluate opportunities with their peers, create action plans to implement these ideas, measure the financial impact and continuously improve this process. […]
Personal and Team Leadership
To support managers and sales staff in improving their business effectiveness, there are a number of key personal leadership, communication and conflict management skills and team leadership skills and tools we focus on. These bespoke workshops can be customized to your staff’s development needs. […]
Personal Finance
Personal finance issues are a major cause of workplace stress and lack of focus, contributing to lower performance and people leaving companies for more pay. This decreases the business’ talent pool and adds to the ongoing recruitment and training costs and efforts. […]
Selling Profitably
Transition your sales team into a team of business consultants with a deep understanding of the role they play in their clients’ businesses. Knowing this increases sales and sales margins. These together increase your profitability. […]
Supervising Profitably
Supervisors and Team Leaders are the axis of any business: they pivot between management and their team; and between internal suppliers and customers in your value chain. Helping them become more effective can rapidly realise financial and customer benefits. Our unique approach to supervisory development is a radical departure from traditional training. One that changes [...]
The Business of HR
The Business of HR is a customized business acumen simulation for HR managers and their teams. The workshop equips you and your HR team to add great value to your business by understanding how HR contributes to different profit levers and how all HR staff can be instrumental in the value and profit creation process. [...]
The Digital Coach
The Digital Coach is our monthly on-going education program. It re-enforces the key learning points from the workshops and ensures application through on-going exercises. This is run monthly, for one year after the workshop. […]
Waste Reduction (Zimbi Zimbi)
Zimbi Zimbi is a company wide short workshop, for operational staff to understand the effects waste and excessive operational and production costs have on the business’ profitability and their job security. […]