Content about Simulation

October 18, 2012
Simulation Leads to Success in High-Consequence Training

At a time of when many industries in the global economy are becoming increasingly complex and regulated, where the magnitude and ramifications of business decisions are dramatic, there are three key things we can learn from Raytheon’s vast experience training the U.S. military’s war fighters, the FAA’s air traffic controllers, and NASA astronauts.

By David J. Letts, Vice President, RaytheonProfessional Services LLC

October 18, 2012
Simulation Leads to Success in High-Consequence Training

At a time of when many industries in the global economy are becoming increasingly complex and regulated, where the magnitude and ramifications of business decisions are dramatic, there are three key things we can learn from Raytheon’s vast experience training the U.S. military’s war fighters, the FAA’s air traffic controllers, and NASA astronauts.

By David J. Letts, Vice President, RaytheonProfessional Services LLC

February 29, 2012
Training Corporate Workers Like Fighter Pilots

Creating a virtual environment provides context and focus during training that is difficult to achieve using any other method. It’s your best bet for creating aces within your own organization.

By Eric Vidal, Director of Product Marketing, Event Services Business Segment, InterCall

January 17, 2012
Conference Highlight: Thinking about Mobile Learning?

Mobile learning can bring valuable content to learners when, where and how they need it. But if you are considering your own mobile program, there is something you should know first.

 

Training 2012 Conference & Expo speaker Scott McCormick explains the first thing you need to know about building your own mobile learning campaign:

November 29, 2011
Making It Stick

How can educators possibly keep training consistently interesting or make relevant connections to each individual in the classroom every 15 to 30 seconds? The only viable answer is effort—curricula built primarily around engaging students through a deliberate difficult practice methodology.

By Kevin R. Glover, M.S., M.Ed., Vice President, Corporate Communications, Clinical Education and Sales Training, and Connie Murray, R.D., M.Ed., Director of Clinical Education and Sales Training at B. Braun Medical Inc.

November 29, 2011
Making It Stick

How can educators possibly keep training consistently interesting or make relevant connections to each individual in the classroom every 15 to 30 seconds? The only viable answer is effort—curricula built primarily around engaging students through a deliberate difficult practice methodology.

By Kevin R. Glover, M.S., M.Ed., Vice President, Corporate Communications, Clinical Education and Sales Training, and Connie Murray, R.D., M.Ed., Director of Clinical Education and Sales Training at B. Braun Medical Inc.

November 23, 2011
AAA – The Auto Club Group: Simulating Good Customer Care

The last thing you want is for front-line workers to learn lessons at the expense of your customers. An effective simulation can teach your service representatives stellar skills and save your customers angst.

By Margery Weinstein

In an effort to continuously improve member service levels, AAA – The Auto Club Group faced a learning challenge: It needed a simulation that would address the specific service issues its customer-facing employees handle. The company decided the best way to meet this learning need was to develop its own custom simulation, says AAA – The Auto Club Group Vice President and Chief Learning Officer Daniel Hill.

November 23, 2011
AAA – The Auto Club Group: Simulating Good Customer Care

The last thing you want is for front-line workers to learn lessons at the expense of your customers. An effective simulation can teach your service representatives stellar skills and save your customers angst.

By Margery Weinstein

In an effort to continuously improve member service levels, AAA – The Auto Club Group faced a learning challenge: It needed a simulation that would address the specific service issues its customer-facing employees handle. The company decided the best way to meet this learning need was to develop its own custom simulation, says AAA – The Auto Club Group Vice President and Chief Learning Officer Daniel Hill.

November 23, 2011
Cox Enterprise: Computer-Driven Behavioral Simulation

Strategic thinking too often is learned in the heat of a business crisis—unless, that is, you take advantage of computer-based simulations that replicate the experience in a no-consequences environment.

By Margery Weinstein

When Cox Enterprise’s Cox Leadership Program (CLP) needed an action-learning simulation to support its curriculum, the company turned to PressTime, a computer-driven behavioral simulation created and distributed by Discovery Learning. After observing the simulation at a company in Canada, Susan Edwards, Cox’s business effectiveness and executive development consultant, decided it met the leadership program’s learning objectives.

November 23, 2011
Cox Enterprise: Computer-Driven Behavioral Simulation

Strategic thinking too often is learned in the heat of a business crisis—unless, that is, you take advantage of computer-based simulations that replicate the experience in a no-consequences environment.

By Margery Weinstein

When Cox Enterprise’s Cox Leadership Program (CLP) needed an action-learning simulation to support its curriculum, the company turned to PressTime, a computer-driven behavioral simulation created and distributed by Discovery Learning. After observing the simulation at a company in Canada, Susan Edwards, Cox’s business effectiveness and executive development consultant, decided it met the leadership program’s learning objectives.

November 23, 2011
Get Your Head in the Game

A changing mindset combined with changing technology is driving the use of games and simulations, says Karl M. Kapp, a professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University. “People are becoming more open to using games and simulations for learning, and the technologies are making the development of games and simulations easier and faster.”

By Margery Weinstein

A changing mindset combined with changing technology is driving the use of games and simulations, says Karl M. Kapp, a learning and technology expert and professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA. “People are becoming more open to using games and simulations for learning, and, at the same time, the technologies are making the development of games and simulations easier and faster than a mere five years ago.”

November 1, 2011
12 Simulation Facilitation FAQs

How do you prepare a “senior person” to participate in a simulation with other members of their team or organization? How do you handle a participant who chooses to dominate the simulation or debrief process? Find out the answers to these and other questions training professionals face when training via simulations.

By Chris Musselwhite, Sue Kennedy, and Sue Probst of Discovery Learning Inc.

1. Early in the simulation, participants often look confused, lost, or skeptical. How much should the facilitator intervene?

October 7, 2011
Soapbox: iPad Takes on Sales Mission

Cognizant created a learning application—the iPad Sales GYM application—based on the principles of collaborative learning with a focus on performance enhancement.

By Sairaj Vaithilingam, Director, Content and Design Services, and Ramanathan Srinivasan, Senior Consultant, Learning Solutions Group, Cognizant Learning Solutions Group

Why can’t I learn what I want, when I want? This is a common question posed by the sales personnel at Cognizant.

With the company growing at an industry-leading clip and expanding its workforce,

September 1, 2011
Training ROI: Strategy Alignment and Execution

Business leaders are turning to customized business simulations to build the alignment, mindset, and capabilities needed to accelerate strategy execution in their companies and realize business results. Business simulations long have been used up front in the strategy formulation process but now are also being recognized as an essential tool for successful strategy implementation.

By Peter Mulford, Executive Vice President, BTS

Business leaders around the world are turning to customized business simulations to build the alignment, mindset, and capabilities needed to accelerate strategy execution in their companies and realize business results. Business simulations long have been used up front in the strategy formulation process. In the last several years, simulations increasingly have been recognized as an essential tool for successful strategy implementation.

September 1, 2011
Training ROI: Strategy Alignment and Execution

Business leaders are turning to customized business simulations to build the alignment, mindset, and capabilities needed to accelerate strategy execution in their companies and realize business results. Business simulations long have been used up front in the strategy formulation process but now are also being recognized as an essential tool for successful strategy implementation.

By Peter Mulford, Executive Vice President, BTS

Business leaders around the world are turning to customized business simulations to build the alignment, mindset, and capabilities needed to accelerate strategy execution in their companies and realize business results. Business simulations long have been used up front in the strategy formulation process. In the last several years, simulations increasingly have been recognized as an essential tool for successful strategy implementation.

August 1, 2011
Virtual Role-Playing Takes Center Stage

By using virtual world 3-D technology, such as VirtualU, VenueGen, and Second Life, training professionals not only can improve on the Webinar experience, they can improve on the experience of participants in role plays conducted live in the classroom. Here are four reasons virtual role plays may be more effective than their classroom counterparts.

By Mark Jankowski, Co-Founder, Shapiro Negotiations Institute

As training professionals are forced to move education from “front of the classroom” training to online training, they have discovered many challenges. How do you keep participant attention in Webinars? How do you create “live” role-play scenarios when participants are taking asynchronous training? How do you observe and coach participants when they are a thousand miles away from you?

July 18, 2011
CareSource Creates Poverty Simulation

At CareSource, understanding how to make a difference in the lives of its more than 852,000 members means being able to appreciate the challenges they face on a daily basis. As a result, CareSource collaborated with Think Tank Inc. to offer “A Walk in My Shoes—A Poverty Simulation,” which simulates the experience of living with the social and economic challenges its members face.

By Margery Weinstein

At CareSource, understanding how to make a difference in the lives of its more than 852,000 members means being able to appreciate the challenges they face on a daily basis. To achieve that appreciation, CareSource challenged its employees to connect with its members through training that provides a view of life from members’ perspectives.

July 18, 2011
CareSource Creates Poverty Simulation

At CareSource, understanding how to make a difference in the lives of its more than 852,000 members means being able to appreciate the challenges they face on a daily basis. As a result, CareSource collaborated with Think Tank Inc. to offer “A Walk in My Shoes—A Poverty Simulation,” which simulates the experience of living with the social and economic challenges its members face.

By Margery Weinstein

At CareSource, understanding how to make a difference in the lives of its more than 852,000 members means being able to appreciate the challenges they face on a daily basis. To achieve that appreciation, CareSource challenged its employees to connect with its members through training that provides a view of life from members’ perspectives.

June 27, 2011
Business Simulations: Begin with the End in Mind

By investing more time in determining the primary purpose and desired outcomes of the simulation, organizations are more likely to be successful in providing on-target learning opportunities for their employees.

By Eliza Helweg-Larsen, Owner and Chief Creative Officer, Andromeda Training, Inc.

For several decades, corporations and academicians have used business simulations to provide a business context and rapid learning environment to increase business literacy and acumen. These simulations have a wide focus, including finance, marketing, distribution, management, decision-making, strategy, teambuilding, and other related topics. Regardless of the specific discipline or topic, business simulations have several goals in common, among them:

June 27, 2011
Business Simulations: Begin with the End in Mind

By investing more time in determining the primary purpose and desired outcomes of the simulation, organizations are more likely to be successful in providing on-target learning opportunities for their employees.

By Eliza Helweg-Larsen, Owner and Chief Creative Officer, Andromeda Training, Inc.

For several decades, corporations and academicians have used business simulations to provide a business context and rapid learning environment to increase business literacy and acumen. These simulations have a wide focus, including finance, marketing, distribution, management, decision-making, strategy, teambuilding, and other related topics. Regardless of the specific discipline or topic, business simulations have several goals in common, among them:

June 20, 2011
Nurse Orientation at Banner Simulation Medical Center

In response to a Nursing Advisory survey indicating that only 10 percent of hospital nurse executives feel that newly graduated nurses are fully prepared to provide safe patient care, and another study showing the average new nurse lacks the clinical skills and judgment required to handle a typical expected hospital caseload, Banner Health developed the Banner Simulation Medical Center (BSimMC).

By Margery Weinstein

In response to a Nursing Advisory survey indicating that only 10 percent of hospital nurse executives feel that newly graduated nurses are fully prepared to provide safe patient care, and another study showing the average new nurse lacks the clinical skills and judgment required to handle a typical expected hospital caseload, Banner Health developed the Banner Simulation Medical Center (BSimMC).

June 6, 2011
A New Day for Corporate Learning

The time is now to take a different look at how mobile, gaming, and social media are being used within our organizations. And that’s the focus for Training’s upcoming Learning 3.0 Conference—Get Mobile. Use Games. Be Social. Drive Engagement—to be held October 4-5 in Chicago.

By A.J. Ripin

March 30, 2011
Predictive Evaluation: A New Approach

This excerpt from “Predictive Evaluation,” by Dave Basarab, explains how organizations can predict (forecast) training’s value to the company, measure against those predictions, use leading indicators to ensure you are on track, and report in a business format that executives easily understand.

By Dave Basarab

Predictive Evaluation (PE) is a new approach that provides compelling training data to executives, including:

March 18, 2011
Leverage Audience Response Solutions
Audience response systems enhance learning and relearning in various training environments, including training rooms, field training, virtual/simulations training, and online learning management systems. The ability of response systems to manage, evaluate, and implement researched instructional strategies has produced inspiring results and has been the impetus for its rapid growth in high-stakes training.
  By Dr. Tina Rooks, Vice President and Chief Instructional Officer, Turning Technologies “High stakes” applies to a number of training topics/profession. However, for the sake of this article, “high stakes” references trainings that require 100 percent mastery or subsequent performance could result in severe negative consequences such as bodily harm or loss of life.
October 6, 2010
The Dividing Line Between Simulation Success and Failure

The benefits of a story-centered curriculum have been touted for many years. However, recent advancements in simulation development technology now make it easier to replicate on-the-job environments, processes, and—most importantly—decision-making opportunities that are truly meaningful to individual learners.

Patrick Mileham, director of editorial development for learning simulations vendor NexLearn, provided us with the following response to Tech Talk's Sept. 2 profile of The Coca-Cola Company's simulation training: