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
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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.
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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.
Executive Development Programs
Provide a Challenge To Your Top Executives
Most executives are competitive by nature. Most also don’t like to be 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
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.