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    Build people management and coaching skills with interactive training

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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 Level + Simulations

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    Hone the strategic financial acumen skills of your executives

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    Offer a world-class leadership simulation to your senior executives

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Management Challenge

Build critical people management skills in your people leaders.

Coaching and Communication Practice for People Managers

Management Challenge is a team-based leadership development experience in which your people leaders practice their management skills in realistic scenarios with employees. Participants put their coaching and communication skills to the test in a fast-paced business competition where they engage in critical employee conversations.

I found today’s experience enlightening. This is one of my first opportunities to think deeply about managing people and I feel energized rather than fearful.

Participant, Appian

The details

Objectives

Communicate and lead in a managerial role

Identify employee motivators and skill-sets

Navigate critical employee conversations

Practice giving effective feedback and coaching

Audience

New, experienced, and aspiring people managers

Participants in early- to mid-career Leadership Development Programs

High-performing individual contributors and team leaders

Format

In-person or virtual classroom

Facilitated 8 hour experience (shortened formats available)

Ideal capstone for blended leadership programs

Online or Classroom Options

Why Management Challenge?

The demands on people managers are growing, and new managers are experiencing a higher rate of failure. Management Challenge provides a space for new managers to practice managing employees and receive meaningful feedback before they make a critical mistake with a direct report. The experience easily integrates into your organization’s management philosophy and frameworks.

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This has been possibly the most fun thing we’ve done during corporate training so far! The pace was good and the simulation felt dynamic and very applicable.

Participant, Kraft Heinz

How Does it Work?

  • Participants are placed in a dynamic, competitive business simulation.
  • Participants work and compete in small teams, managing the motivations and performance of a virtual team.
  • Realistic video-based workplace scenarios allow managers to practice having critical development and coaching conversations.
  • Facilitator-led debriefs, discussions, and exercises allow managers to reflect, gain insight from feedback, and share their own experiences.
  • The program seamlessly integrates with larger management development programs and can be custom-tailored to support your management philosophy and frameworks.
  • Certified facilitators with extensive management and training experience debrief the experience and provide coaching insights.
  • Facilitator certification for client-internal trainers is available.

How Do I Use It?

Management Challenge easily supports your existing leadership development programs, whether you use an in-person or virtual learning journey. Management Challenge can also form the cornerstone of a new leadership development program. Abilitie has extensive experience in creating impactful leadership development programs for clients around the world. Learn more about our custom program design options for new managers here.

New Managers
New Hires
Aspiring Managers

New Managers

Start New Managers Off Right

New managers often struggle to understand how to activate the motivations of others, leading to employee burnout and turnover. Management Challenge allows new managers to practice the art of management in a safe environment with realistic scenarios. Extensive debriefs and feedback allow new managers to learn from their peers and their own actions.

New Hires

Instill Your Management Framework

Management Challenge is seamlessly integrated into manager onboarding programs, whether your people are new to management or simply new to management at your company. Wrap your management philosophy, model, and framework around this simulation to give new managers the opportunity to put their skills to the test.

Aspiring Managers

Invest in Your Employees

Many employees assume that the next step in their careers includes managing others, but many aspiring managers do not understand that the work of a manager is often very different from the job of an individual contributor. Management Challenge gives your rising employees the opportunity to see what it’s like to manage a team and allows them to be more informed about their own career choices.

Perfect environment for learning. Better than just some books or online courses.

Participant, McKinsey

Case Study

High-Potential Leadership Development

Pep Boys partnered with Abilitie to incorporate Abilitie’s Management Challenge simulation into their training programs. The simulation served as a capstone to this six-month program and allowed managers to apply their coaching and communication skills and reinforce concepts that were taught during previous sessions.

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Recent Posts

  • Think Like a CEO: Finance ChallengeJanuary 21, 2021
  • Abilitie Wins 2020 Training Industry Magazine Network Choice AwardNovember 24, 2020
  • Invited MBA Continues to GrowNovember 5, 2020
  • Interview with Matt Confer of Abilitie Key Conversations for Leaders PodcastAugust 31, 2020
  • Three Steps to Better Decision Making with Matthew ConferAugust 17, 2020

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