Programme & Event Services - Supporting Your Training Delivery
Use the Elgood Effective Learning team to facilitate your staff development or assessment event for maximum results.
Elgood has been partnering with a diverse range of organisations to apply business simulation and game design techniques to tackle their organisational and business challenges for over 50 years.
If you are using a business simulation or game for the first time, don’t feel you have the expertise in-house to run the training on your own , need to run the event online, or are just too busy to spare the resource; we are here to help.
Let’s explore in more detail the options around how we can support the facilitation of your learning and development events and why using Elgood to run a face-to-face in-house event is the gold-plated solution.
The full package
We work with you to design or select a business simulation or game to incorporate into your team development event or assessment center.
- The provision of Elgood experts who will get the absolute best from the product and your team
- Our experience, knowledge and intuition meaning the simulation is precisely tailored to your audience and organisational needs
- Ensuring your whole team can focus on addressing your challenges rather than facilitating the sessions
Online with remote facilitation
Elgood can run your in-house event through the use of web-based software, with one of our professionals running the session remotely.
- Your participants can join online irrespective of where they work from
- The simulation or game is facilitated by Elgood remotely
- Participants conduct their meetings, enter decisions and access document updates via an online portal.
Supported by us run by you
You can run your own in-house web-based event using Elgood’s software, with your facilitator supported by us.
- Access to our web-based business simulation software for a period of 7 days
- Your facilitator with our tutor manual and all documentation
- One-to-one tutor support (train the trainer) is optional.
While this is a lower cost option it does require your staff running the event to have the relevant subject knowledge –business and commercial acumen.
Assessment centres
An area where Elgood can add value to your organisation is by running team assessment/development events using simulations and, if required, with the addition of a psychometric tool.
- Agrees with you which capabilities need to be assessed
- Facilitates a face-to-face event (recommended)
- Reports on participant’s performance with an assessment of individuals’ capabilities and skills.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Experiential Learning?
This refers to learning that an individual derives from experience. The term comes from the book Experiential Learning: experience as the source of learning and development published by David A Kolb (Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1984).
In the book Kolb explained how a person learns through a cycle of discovery and experience. The Kolb learning cycle has four stages.
In situations where it is difficult for people to gain live experience the use of games and simulations can be used to mimic reality. The activity provides the active experimentation and concrete experience and the individual can then learn through reflective observation and abstract conceptualisation with the potential of going around the circle again to test out their new-found knowledge.
Retention rates from activities that incorporate experiential methods result in significantly higher retention rates – 75% from practice by doing in comparison to 5% from a lecture.
Research by National Training Laborotries.
Can a Business Simulation Game help me assess the skills and capabilities of individuals?
Business simulation games can be used as part of both formal and informal assessment activities. If you have a clear understanding of the competencies required and how these would be demonstrated, you can create a checklist to allow observers to assess individuals while they are participating in an activity. A similar checklist can be used by the participants themselves to reflect on their behavior after the event.
Business simulation games can be used as part of a recruitment, induction, development or assessment process.
Read our Warwick case study
Read our assessment or development centre page
How can business games be used in induction?
All organisations have a structure and processes for their activities. A game can be used to familiarise new employees with both the structure and the process of the particular organisation. For example, this is a board game which provides new employees joining a shipping company with the process for the main business and also the department (structure) of the business.
How much will a business simulation or management game cost me?
Every client has specific needs, different participant numbers and varying timescales. We will give you a firm quotation early on in the consultative process, and guarantee that your reusable bespoke simulation will deliver an excellent return on your investment.
How much time will it take me to set up the game or simulation?
From initial consultation to delivery, typically between two weeks and three months depending on the type of product required. Our skills in needs analysis mean we get to the heart of your issue very quickly.
What resources will I need to run an Elgood game or simulation?
This depends on the type of simulation you select. For example, participants and/or facilitators may need access to a computer or the web, but in some cases the requirements may be as simple as pen and paper, and a time commitment from each participant.
Can I get help setting up the game or simulation?
When we design a simulation game for you, you are involved in the whole process and will gain a good understanding of how everything works. You can ask us to help facilitate the first event to help you find your feet, run a ‘train the trainer’ session, or provide ongoing facilitation support. If you purchase one of our off the shelf products we will help you to determine the best way to use it, depending on the complexity of the package, we can also provide facilitation assistance.
Is there an off-the-shelf business simulation or management game that would work for me?
If your goals are to develop business acumen, increase commercial awareness, promote teamwork and enhance decision-making skills, take a closer look at the Way Forward and Lawn Trimmers.
The Way Forward is a fast-moving and challenging business simulation delivering valuable insight into the mechanics of running a business. Developed by us to expose participants to the diverse pressures and challenges of the competitive commercial environment, the simulation tests players over a series of ‘half years’ as they make commercial, cultural and strategic decisions which will make the difference between success and failure. Teams are pitted against each other and strive to achieve the highest share price as the game develops.
Lawn Trimmers is also set in the business world but with a different focus. Participants have to assess the market and set up a factory based on their assessment of market demand and competition. Their objective is to achieve the best return on capital employed by balancing their initial investment with market demand and correctly identifying which of the commercial decisions they can make will attract the highest number of customers.
We offer both these simulations with facilitation either face to face or using a virtual medium.
Do I need to employ a consultant to use an Elgood game or simulation?
Many of our games and simulations can be used by a competent manager who has, themselves, benefited from management training. They can be used by trainers working for an organisation or on a freelance basis to reinforce ideas included in their own training materials. If we believe facilitation assistance might be useful, for example for some of our business simulations, we provide this service.
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Customisable products to embed in your training and development activities
Here is a selection of products that we regularly customise to support a client’s specific learning and development objectives. We also offer facilitation support as required.
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