Corporate Leadership Development Simulations
Leaders learn by doing: by stepping out, making decisions, taking action, and making mistakes.
Blueline’s corporate leadership training simulations create a safe space for leaders to hone the skills they need to achieve peak performance.
Our custom, scalable approach allows us to tailor a corporate leadership development program that will meet your leaders where they are and take them where they need to be.
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PeopleSIM™ Coaching
Performance-coaching skills for first- and second-level leaders
Learners address performance gaps and establish expectations while immersed in a first-of-its-kind military-grade branching simulation. PeopleSIM Coaching utilizes artificial intelligence to distribute more than 2,000 video-based nodes to create a virtual reality setting accessible on a laptop or tablet. Voice recognition and continuous feedback further enhances engagement. Optional classroom and/or virtual classroom designs create a fully transformative synchronous, team-driven experience.
Objectives:
- Conduct effective performance-coaching conversations
- Utilize coaching success factors to improve performance
- Uncover performance gaps
- Create an action plan that is specific, measurable, action-oriented, reasonable, and time-bound
- Utilize active listening skills
- Manage confrontation appropriately
Audience:
- New, experienced, and aspiring people managers
- Participants in early- to mid-career leadership development programs
- High-performing individual contributors and team leaders
Format:
- Online performance support
- On-site or virtual classroom
- Facilitated 8-hour experience (shortened formats available)
To learn more about PeopleSIM, download our whitepaper.
Executive Challenge™
A Unique Laboratory for Senior Leaders
Executive Challenge is a laboratory for senior leaders, helping them better understand complex organizational dynamics and recognize their own leadership blind spots. In this simulation, senior leaders are tasked with running a business in a fast-paced, competitive marketplace: from forming a strategy to making critical personnel decisions, setting operational capacities, and designing effective sales campaigns. Executive Challenge encourages self-awareness and reinforces cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, and strategic thinking.
Objectives:
- Translate high-level strategy into sustainable business results
- Anticipate the impact of operational decisions across the enterprise
- Recognize personal leadership blind spots that prevent effective execution
- Practice executive-level influence and presentation skills
Audience:
- Senior Director and VP-level leaders
- Participants in senior-level LDPs
- Intact cross-functional teams at the VP+ level
Format:
- Facilitated 8-hour experience (shortened formats available)
- In-person or virtual classroom
- Ideal capstone for leadership programs
- The perfect kickoff to in-person or virtual offsites
Enterprise Challenge™
A Development Experience for Emerging Leaders
Enterprise Challenge is an immersive leadership development experience for rising and aspiring leaders in your organization. In this team-based competition, participants practice cross-functional collaboration and decision-making skills under pressure.
Participants are placed on cross-functional teams, compete with others in a dynamic marketplace, take calculated business risks, react to unexpected events, and – through targeted debriefs and reflection – learn how to utilize their leadership style to execute strategy under pressure.
Objectives:
- Communicate and collaborate effectively across functional silos to influence outcomes
- Make decisions under conditions of ambiguity and uncertainty
- Identify differences in leadership styles in self and others
- Practice persuasion and presentation skills
Audience:
- Participants in early- to mid-career LDPs
- Rising managers and directors
- High-performing managers and team leaders
Format:
- Facilitated 8-hour experience (shortened formats available)
- In-person or virtual classroom
- Ideal capstone for leadership programs
Management Challenge™
Coaching and Communication Practice for People Managers
Management Challenge is a team-based leadership development experience in which your people leaders practice their management skills in realistic scenarios with employees. Participants put their coaching and communication skills to the test in a fast-paced business competition where they engage in critical employee conversations.
Objectives:
- Communicate and lead in a managerial role
- Identify employee motivators and skill sets
- Navigate critical employee conversations
- Practice giving effective feedback and coaching
Audience:
- New, experienced, and aspiring people managers
- Participants in early- to mid-career Leadership Development Programs
- High-performing individual contributors and team leaders
Format:
- On-site or virtual classroom
- Facilitated 8-hour experience (shortened formats available)
- Ideal capstone for blended leadership programs
It’s Simple To Get Started on Your Transformation Journey
Here’s how we work with you:
Schedule a free consultation with one of our Principals.
Meet your dedicated Blueline team, who will quickly get immersed in your organization’s context, needs, and goals.
Partner with us to build alignment among your internal stakeholders for a learning solution targeted to your objectives.
Experience the power of a Blueline tailored or custom-built training initiative, and watch your vision become a reality.