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Manager/Director Level Programs

Rising Leader Program

Challenging mini-MBA for aspiring leaders

Becoming an Effective Manager

Essential management skills for new managers

Developing Business Acumen

Real-world practice in value creation and analysis

Executing in Cross-Functional Environments

Leadership and influencing skills for decision-making

VP/Senior Level Programs

Senior Leader Program

Practice-based learning for executive leaders

Creating Strategic Business Value

Financial impact and investment analysis skill-building

Leading Organizational Change

Executive-level leadership and enterprise-thinking

For Individuals

Open Enrollment Invited MBA

Learn about our 12-week mini-MBA

Manager/Director Level Simulations

Management Challenge

Build critical people management skills in your people leaders

Business Challenge

Expand the business acumen of your nonfinancial managers

Enterprise Challenge

Develop cross-functional communication skills in a dynamic environment

VP/Senior Level Simulations

Finance Challenge

Hone the strategic financial acumen skills of your executives

Executive Challenge

Offer a world-class leadership simulation to your senior executives

Virtual Program Design

Create virtual training that sticks

Certifications

Extend the reach of our programs and simulations to a global audience using your internal L&D facilitation talent

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Tailor our simulation-based leadership programs to your needs

Fluent in Finance

Offer a comprehensive business acumen primer for nonfinancial managers

Enterprise & Executive Summits

Offer intensive strategy off-sites

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  • Abilitie launches new, fast track Invited MBA open enrollment programs for organizations of all sizes and announces new brand look
  • How L&D Leaders Can Deliver Learning That Sticks

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Executive Challenge

Enhance the leadership and strategic decision-making skills of your senior leaders.

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.

This simulation ranks in the top-5 of all the trainings that I have taken in the last 18 years.

Participant, AMD

The details

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

In-person or virtual classroom

Facilitated 8 hour experience (shortened formats available)

Ideal capstone for leadership programs

Perfect kickoff to in-person or virtual off-sites

Senior executives at a Fortune 500 company participating in an L&D program

Why Executive Challenge?

Executive Challenge provides a space for senior leaders and executives to flex their leadership strengths and gain meaningful insights into business problems and personal areas for growth. The simulated business environment meets leaders where they are and helps them hone their strategic thinking and communication skills.

In all of my years of training the simulation was by far the most interactive and rewarding of all that I have participated in.

Participant, GE

How Does it Work?

  • Teams of participants form companies and compete for customers in a dynamic marketplace.
  • Each participant assumes an executive role in a cross-functional team and is asked to develop a coherent business strategy. 
  • Roles within the company change frequently, allowing participants to experience the business from different functional points of view.
  • Teams have to manage both financial and people resources; virtual employees assigned to each participant can be hired away by competitors, leading to unexpected challenges. This threat makes thinking strategically about talent management critical to success for each team.
  • Unexpected events, such as acquisition opportunities, product recalls, and intellectual property violations, create high-pressure situations that pose executive-level decision-making and communication challenges.
  • The experience has a flexible design and seamlessly integrates with broader leadership development initiatives.
  • The simulation is delivered by certified faculty with extensive leadership and training experience.
  • Facilitator certification for client-internal trainers is available.

How Do I Use It?

Executive Challenge can successfully integrate into your leadership development programs for your top-level leaders. The simulation gives them the opportunity to flex and hone their leadership muscles in real-world scenarios.

Executive Challenge can also form the cornerstone of a new senior-level leadership development program. Abilitie has extensive experience in creating impactful executive education programs for clients around the world. Learn more about our custom program design options for senior leaders here.

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Provide a Challenge To Your Top Executives

Most executives are competitive by nature – and very few enjoy being lectured to. Executive Challenge provides a perfect proving ground for the most senior-level officers of your company in which they learn by doing, seeing the outcomes of their own actions, and reflecting on cause and effect relationships.

Strategy Off-Sites

Level Up Your Executive Strategy Off-Site

Executive Challenge is an ideal complement to your next executive strategy meeting. It provides a safe practice space for your leadership team to hone their communication and collaboration skills and uncover personal or team blind spots. It can either be used to kick off or conclude important business strategy meetings.

Executive Team Building

Offer a Safe Space for Your Executive Team to Bond

Much more than an outdoor ropes course, Executive Challenge puts your executives in a real-world business competition and allows them to understand each other’s strengths and weaknesses in a fun, immersive team environment. Executives learn how to utilize the strengths of each team member to drive their company to success.

Great pacing, info, learning. Best simulation I have ever experienced.

Participant, Microchip
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Case Study

Aligning Leaders During a Time of Change at WDC

Western Digital reflects on how Abilitie’s Executive Challenge provided the corporate leadership courses needed to cohesively assimilate executives from three formerly competing companies together in the face of their large-scale acquisitions.

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