The Business Series
From conducting effective meetings and planning projects to resolving customer complaints, Human Synergistics Business Series simulations are your solution to sharpening business knowledge and practices while tuning up teamwork skills-for double the impact on performance.
Dual purpose
The simulations in our Business Series provide the "how-to" knowledge your teams need to tackle common, yet demanding, business problems and situations with expertise and confidence. At the same time, they strengthen the skills and behaviors your teams need to effectively (and efficiently) solve problems and make decisions.
Flexible
Whether your objective is to energize a meeting, kick off a project, build better teams, or teach proven business strategies for dealing with specific types of problems, the HSI Business Simulations can be adopted with confidence. Use these versatile activities with groups new to simulations or as the perfect alternative for groups that have experienced one or more of HSI's survival simulations.
All you need
Leader's Guides are available for each of the Business Simulations and offer all of the information you'll need to plan and facilitate a successful program. The guides include the recommended solutions and rationales, scoring instructions, program design options, and tips for discussing the skills and processes that contribute to effective team performance.
Choose the Business Simulation that's right for you
Simulation | The Situation | The Challenge | Time |
| COACH Co-Achieving | You have been asked to coach a poor performing sports team. Designed to complement the Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) and encourages thinking about the values that underpin achievement motivation. | Choose from a number of options the approach you would take with this team, how you would motivate the players, select the team and set goals for improved performance. | 2.5 to 4 hours |
| Project Planning Situation™
Strengthen general planning proficiencies and competenciesSample Participant Booklet | Your team has been assigned responsibility for designing a plan for managing a secret project. | Sequence 20 activities in the order they should be followed in managing the project. | 1 to 2 hours |
| Meeting Effectiveness Situation™
Develop effective meeting management skills and practices | Increasing turnover rates in most of your stores requires that you call a meeting to discuss the problem. | Sequence 20 action steps in the order they should be followed to maximize the effectiveness of the meeting. | 1 to 2 hours |
| Turnaround™
Reveal underlying philosophies and assumptions regarding how to lead organizational transformation and change | You are a general manager in a large company that has just reassigned you to its failing blue jeans manufacturing plant. | Develop a four-part plan for improving the plant, based on your review of the plant's history and recent production and financial reports. | 5 to 8 hours |