Leadership simulation - for managers, middle managers, project teams - advanced

Project Management Simulation is an excellent intensive and interactive group learning opportunity. The simulation aims to use the different competences of the participants (e.g. subject knowledge, skills and attitudes) in a playful way to show how both individual and group performance can be improved by developing these competences.

Simulation provides participants with the opportunity to explore, analyse, understand and solve typical project problems. A major benefit of the training is that it confronts participants with real-life project situations and problems in a playful way, giving them the opportunity to experience the consequences of their decisions in real time. During the simulation, participants can follow the evolution of the project and the changes in project parameters: scope, cost, schedule, quality and human factor.

In the simulation, the participants perform a playful, creative and fun (construction) task, in which they have to meet a specific goal - which they have identified - with limited resources, while experiencing the typical risks of a serious project. This is done by having the participants, with the help of a trainer, "step out of the film" for short periods of time and analyse what has happened and the performance "through the eyes of the director", thus ensuring that experiential learning is tasted and, given the short time available, implemented in a few selected areas of competence (cooperation, communication, group dynamics).

For all managers, project managers, project professionals (e.g. workstream leaders) who want to experience the requirements and conditions for professional implementation of projects embedded in daily work (with major reorganisation); for beginners and experienced managers who want to structure and develop their knowledge.

It is now obvious to training/development professionals, but we think it is important to underline that simulation, because of its practicality, can achieve a much higher level of motivation than traditional forms of learning, because participants are active participants, or rather, managers of events, in which success is achieved through a series of playful but "bloody serious" and consistently thought-out steps.

The simulation game also has the strong objective of demonstrating in a spectacular way how both group and individual performance can be improved through continuous improvement, using the different competences of the participants (e.g. professional knowledge, skills, attitudes).

The project management simulation gives participants the opportunity to experience how it should be done:

• define the purpose and scope of the project,
• estimate the costs,
• plan the project tasks,
• estimate the project costs, estimate the project tasks, estimate the project budget, estimate the project costs, estimate the project tasks, allocate resources to the plan,
• use project management tools,
• monitor the progress of the project,
• react appropriately in typical project management situations.

Following the training, company, programme or project office or individual coaching and team coaching sessions are available to apply the lessons learned to specific team or individual projects or to solve any stuck points/problems.