Training elements
Skills-based training through simulation is based on three main training elements:
Handling complexity
Training “air traffic controller competences”
- Understanding the nature of complexity and its impact
- Managerial capacity (agility and skills) for handling complexity
- Managers play an active role in creating a link between complexity and simplification
- Managers play an active role in creating a link between organisational vision and experience.
Stress reduction
Training “soldier competences”
- Leaders with professional and personal resilience who are able to remain calm in situations of high tension
- Managerial ability to understand stressful situations
- Managerial capability to act rationally and appropriately in stressful situations
- Managerial ability to include a variety of factors in decision-making and to see opportunities in every situation
Performance dialogue
Training “theatre worker competences”
- Ongoing, high quality dialogue between stakeholders and organisational units to ensure high performance and quality
- Managerial ability to manage performance dialogues (structured conversations) with the organisation in order to lead and coordinate the collective performance
- ”Top down” communication of organisational direction and objectives
- “Bottom up” facilitation of inputs from the organisation and qualifying information and insights