In 1988, I learned to ride a skateboard. There was no PowerPoint presentation involved, no lectures, and no eLearning modules. I just got on and had a go! I didn’t stay on for more than 5 seconds before falling off, but it was after the board shot out from underneath me that I had time to re-wire my mind and adapt my strategy for the next go based on what I’d experienced during those 5 seconds. That’s experiential learning! The second time around, 15 seconds on the board, and the same process again repeatedly until I had, within a few …
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new business simulation, Boardroom.Inc. C-Suite training Increase c-suite performance Boardroom.Inc is the ultimate C-Suite training tool, putting executive teams to test in order to improve and drive performance. C-suite executives are tasked to take a struggling business from good to great. In the simulation, executives will need to demonstrate high levels of teamwork, empathy, and resilience. They will have to build the governance around improvements, make a profit, and create an organization that is agile and able to react to changing marketplace conditions. Executive training Learning outcomes With Boardroom.Inc, executives will …
Ahead of Earth Day, Tim Dew (CEO of GingrTech) interviewed a number of sustainability professionals to get their views on how we can turn sustainability into action on the ground. A CDP report released in 2017 attributed 71% of the world’s greenhouse emissions since 1988 to just 100 active fossil fuel producers. With nearly all emissions directly controlled by organizations, the game is now afoot on how we can get organizations to transform quickly and effectively to meet our global climate goals. How to improve business sustainability? How do you turn ESG policy into action? What are the benefits of …
Organizations are constantly changing, evolving, and adapting to meet new challenges, provide new services or simply improve existing processes. Change is constant, with 70% of companies saying they either have a digital transformation strategy in place or are working on one. However, change may not be so easy, as changing the way an organization thinks and acts may involve changing the way hundreds, or thousands, of employees think and act. 71% of leaders say the workforce is important in supporting their digital transformation strategy, so how does an organization implement change? That’s when change management comes in. What is change …
“Teamwork makes the dream work”, “There’s no ‘I’ in team”, “Team: together everyone achieves more”. We’ve heard these quotes countless times before, and we certainly know them by heart. So, why is it that many businesses struggle to make teams work together? Why does the dream not… work? Silo working is the most common denominator in teamwork struggles. What are organizational silos? Organizational silos definition Organizational silos are structures that divide employees and teams into individuals, making them work independently and often avoid sharing information. People like to focus on what they are doing, which means that they often don’t …
Having previously explored the Top 10 Skills for 2025 and why using simulation training is beneficial, we want to analyze how and where do business simulations address the WEF 2025 skills. Where can business simulations address the WEF 2025 skills? From this point on in this article, we only speak for the business simulations we supply. There are other good simulations available on the market, but simulations we are not knowledgeable about. With each of the World Economic skills, we have listed their definition of what it is, and provided a short overview of how we address the skill in …
The World Economic Forum (WEF) reported in 2020 that “40% of current workers’ core skills are expected to change in next 5 years”, accompanied by a list of key skills that are needed in the workplace by 2025. The WEF provides guidance to educators but where the WEF is perhaps less clear is what exactly employers can do to solve the reskilling problem. Conversations that I have had with CEOs, Directors of Learning & Development and Organizational Development are all in agreement about what needs to be done but have very mixed outlooks on the solutions. There are lots of …
We are delighted to announce the launch of the new GingrTech brand identity, which includes a new logo, colors, font, game names, and our all-new website. GingrTech has grown significantly over the last few years, with the recent addition to our business simulations catalog with the ESG training game GoGreen.Inc. This growth was helped by significant investments made by Spence & Co. and The Oliver Twins, as well as a fast-growing clientele. With the new brand identity, we want to empower you to understand our work world better. The rebranding focuses on the experience of learning games and the benefits …
Team building activities are an ideal way to strengthen company values and teams. Effective team building exercises allow teams to bond, engage, build trust, and often get to know each other on a more personal level. Why are team building activities important? Despite their reputation for being boring or scary, team building activities and educational games at the workplace can be fun and effective exercises with many obvious and hidden benefits. What are the benefits of team building activities? Are team building activities effective? Let’s dive in. Top 10 Benefits of Team Building Exercises Boosting productivity Improving mental health Improve …
The British naturalist Sir David Attenborough urged world leaders attending the COP26 climate summit to act now. He warned of dangerously high levels of concentration of carbon in the atmosphere, also known as part per million or ppm levels. Much is nowadays being said about climate change and sustainability goals but, how to reduce CO2 levels within a business? And, more importantly, what does CO2 ppm mean? What are safe levels of CO2 in the environment? Carbon Dioxide Levels: Parts Per Million Concentration (ppm) Concentration in parts per million (ppm) is a way of measuring the concentration of a solution. …
