Great Game Business Simulations provide pragmatic business simulations that develop your employees' commercial and financial acumen, create profit and support strategic decisions.

Our simulations are simplified models of your business that show its main moving parts and how they interact. Participating in one of our business simulations helps people build understanding and skills very rapidly and in a competitive, real world environment.

Using Great Game Business Simulations you can:

• Develop your employees' business acumen and commercial awareness
• Change their decision-making behavior
• Establish key financial metrics
• Engage employees in a powerful team building exercise
• Build a common language to support strategic decisions.

Benefits: Your employees become better decision-makers and more productive in their everyday work, accelerating an improvement in your strategic performance and business results.

Great Game Business Simulations cover a wide range of industries and are based on unique, proven development methodology. They are used by top companies and business schools all over the world.

One Day Great Game Business Simulations

One Day Great Game Business Simulations bring to life the basic know-how needed to successfully manage any business. The Profit & Loss (Income Statement), Balance Sheet, basic business planning and budgeting, and cash flow forecasting are all demystified. The essential management of profit and cash are understood and reinforced in an engaging, competitive and fun environment.

By the end of the day, you will:

• Make smart decisions back on the job
• Learn why businesses make or lose money
• Get the most from income statements and balance sheets -- without dying of boredom
• Know the difference between profits and cash -- any why you should care
• Control cash moving in and out of a business
• Create a business plan and learn why you really need one.

For more information, call us at 800-386-2752. To watch a free demo, click here.

Two Day Great Game Business Simulations

Two Day Great Game Business Simulations build on the business essentials of the One Day Simulations and then go on to explore value creation metrics, break even analysis, return on investment management, asset turnover, strategies for cost leadership, differentiation, etc. Through experiential learning, the drivers of shareholder value are exposed and you become the invested shareholder. Connections are made to everyday business life, and each participant creates and walks away with a personal action plan to improve cash flow, profit and add value.

By the end of the second day, you will:

• Accomplish everything in our One Day Simulation, plus:
• Understand the key measures of business, gross and net profit, cash flow and shareholder value
• Calculate ratios such as return on revenue, asset turnover, return on investment
• Complete a break-even analysis
• Learn about different strategies such as differentiation, cost leadership, value creation
• Be a shareholder and know what to look for in a company
• Leave with a personal action plan to improve cash flow, profit and create value.

For more information, call us at 800-386-2752. To watch a free demo, click here.

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MINI-GAMES WORKSHOPS

Workshops That Work: Mini-Game Training -- Creating Wins

Creating Wins combines two highly interactive, results based training programs, Driving Team Performance with Mini-Games and Motivating through Recognition and Rewards, to give your employees the tools they need to meet challenges head-on and create a habit of winning.

Mini-Games are small-scale incentive plans designed to correct a weakness or pursue an opportunity within your business. There is a common goal, a scorecard and a reward for winning. This highly interactive training session will give your employees the skills and confidence to design and apply effective Mini-Games.

In this workshop, participants learn to develop mini-games that:

• Keep people focused on a common goal
• Encourage employees to work together instead of against each other
• Create line of sight between individual contribution and The Big Picture
• Target day-to-day improvements that add up to year-end success
• Reinforce business and financial literacy training
• Develop a winning attitude
• Get results and create wins.

Participants will directly test their knowledge by breaking into groups to create mini-games for immediate use in their own organizations, a direct take home that will drive business results.

Research shows that individual or team recognition is one of the most powerful motivators. But as straight-forward as it seems, only half of all managers give recognition and celebrate wins on a regular basis -- either because it doesn’t come naturally or because they simply don’t know how to do it.

Motivating through Recognition and Rewards teaches participants the art of using rewards and recognition to motivate employees and co-workers, keep top performers, foster personal responsibility and instill a sense of pride within the team. Through interactive exercises, participants will learn to:

• Use two-way communication to show employees that their skills, abilities, ideas and contributions are valued
• Delegate in a way that makes employees feel rewarded instead of dumped upon
• Effectively and meaningfully praise those they work with
• Reward and celebrate wins.

To find out more, call us at 800-386-2752. We’ll be happy to show you how a small investment can result in huge payoffs for your company.

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WORKSHOPS THAT WORK

The Great Game of Business^® is pleased to present a series of interactive workshops. If you are ready to move your company to the next level, consider Workshops that Work. Learn the proven methods of our unique style of open-book management and see the results. Great Game trainers can also come to your company and facilitate on-site training. Many of our training workshops are also available in facilitator kits. Contact us at 800-386-2752 to get a quote and schedule your on-site training today!

Workshops That Work: The Game
A total management system, The Great Game of Business^® takes the proven elements needed to win at any game and applies them to the game of business. The Game provides an excellent overview of the philosophy and fundamentals behind The Game as used successfully by Jack Stack and Springfield ReManufacturing Corporation.

Workshops That Work: Yo Yo Company
Scoreboards allow a team to see how The Game is progressing and plan the next play. Huddling around the scoreboards keeps everyone’s head in The Game. This workshop provides an in-depth look at how to communicate while playing The Game by teaching you how to develop scoreboards and giving hands-on huddling experience through the Tons of Toys, Inc.™ business simulation.

Workshops That Work: Rules of Play -- Service
Workshops That Work: Rules of Play -- Manufacturing
Just as with any game, the game of business is governed by rules that establish the object of the game, rules that govern game play and rules for keeping score. In order to ensure success, every player on the team must know the rules. This workshop provides the fundamentals of business and financial literacy your players need in order to be contributing members of the team. Available in service and manufacturing industries.

Workshops That Work: A Winning Strategy
Most business failures are planning failures. Even if your team is talented and works well together, it’s really tough to win at any game without a game strategy. A Winning Strategy gives your strategic planning team the tools they need in order to develop a strategy that will allow your company to successfully meet any challenge that arises.

Workshops That Work: The Critical Number
Designed to achieve consensus among key players, this workshop leads participants through the results of The Game appraisal process. Participants work together to identify The Critical Number after looking at the business from the perspective of the employees, managers, financial numbers and industry benchmarks. This workshop helps businesses who are new to The Game define their game and begin to develop strategies. (This workshop is not available as a facilitator kit.)

Workshops That Work: Following the Action
Not all players have the financial skills they need to play The Game. Players need to be able to read and understand the three financial statements: Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement. This workshop teaches players the three statements while learning how they can impact the bottom line.

Workshops That Work: Celebrating Wins
Celebrating is a motivational tool that builds effective, energized teams. The Celebrating Wins workshop provides valuable training on recognition methods, mini-games and annual bonus programs that will help keep the spirit alive in your organization.

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TRAIN THE TRAINER

Many of our clients have in-house training staff, and choose our "Train the Trainer" programs. In "Train the Trainer", our executive training staff helps your Business Literacy Team become the ongoing trainers within your organization. Many programs are available and can be customized to fit your needs. Training can be done here at headquarters, or onsite at your facility. Contact us at 800-386-2752 and our staff can help you find the right programs to work within your company's business literacy goals.

Here is a sampling of Great Game "Train the Trainer" Programs:

KNOW & TEACH THE RULES – Plan & Train for Success

PLANNING:

• A Winning Strategy - 6-hour training on the High-Involvement Planning process and Creating and Communicating an Effective Sales Plan
• Know What it Takes to Win - 3-hour training on High-Involvement Planning process
• Design Winning Plays - 3-hour training on Creating and Communicating an Effective Sales Plan

BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL LITERACY TRAINING:

• The Game
• 6-hour interactive overview
• 3-hour interactive overview
• How The Game is Played - 1½-hour overview of The Game with an emphasis on player responsibility and participation (New Employee Orientation? Could be 3 hours if we expanded overview of Scoreboards & Huddling)
• Rules of Play -- Manufacturing - 6-hour Financial Literacy training
• Rules of Play -- Service - 6-hour Financial Literacy training
• Enterprise Profitability - One-day Business/Financial Literacy training
• Enterprise Profitability with Mini-Games - One-day Business/Financial Literacy training with ½-day Mini-Game Methodology
• Corporate Profitability - Two-day Financial Literacy training
• The Yo-Yo Company - ½-day Financial Literacy training (Manufacturing)

FOLLOW THE ACTION & KEEP SCORE – Communicate for Success

• Following the Action – 6-hour Scoreboard & Huddling Training (includes an overview of The Game and the Tons of Toys™ simulation)
• Scoreboards & Huddling – 3-hour interactive overview of the communication process
• Keep Score – Overview of Scoreboard use and design. 1½-hour to 3-hour time frame depending on the time allowed to design scoreboards
• Huddle Up! – 3-hour training on Huddling (includes Tons of Toys™)
• Focus on The Game - 1½-hour training on the Huddling process
• Tons of Toys™ - Huddling Simulation (1½-hour)

PROVIDE A STAKE IN THE OUTCOME – Motivate for Success

• Celebrating Wins – 6-hour Bonus, Mini-Game and Recognition training
• Reward the Team – 3-hour Annual Bonus and Mini-Game training
• Recognize the Player – 3-hour Recognition training
• Mini-Game Methodology – 3-hour training and facilitation of Mini-Game design

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