In today’s organisations, employees often find it difficult to learn new skills and transfer current knowledge across functions. Companies too feel the urgent need to spur intrapreneurship and ownership at all levels, requiring employees to demonstrate business acumen in their day-to-day decisions.
The ability to think strategically across the organisation, vertically and horizontally, to sense opportunities and threats, seize or deal with them and make the necessary changes is fast becoming the key dominant in an organisation’s success.
Business acumen can no longer be limited to the founders and owners of businesses alone. It has become imperative for organisations to arm their workforce with skills and knowledge across business functions, in areas, they find particularly challenging like analysing reports, impact of key decision making, understanding financial tradeoffs, thereby paving the way for future managers.
Business Simulation: Journey to the Jade Mountain
Journey to the Jade Mountain or Jade Game in short, is an experiential training tool that in a powerful manner helps employees understand and practice the mode of behaviour that ensures success. It recreate real work issues in a controlled environment.
Jade Game stresses the importance of good planning and teamwork. It demonstrates clearly that planning is a vital element in any goal directed activity. Very few individuals invest enough time in planning and consequently are far less successful than they could be.
Participants become highly involved right from the start and at the end have much to contribute in the debriefing stage – particularly as they discover how much better planning and teamwork could have impacted their final outcome. Jade Game will increase their desire to learn how to plan better.
This tool provides participants with the challenge of competing against each other in the terrain, in a race to the distant mountains in search of “scrolls “. It is effective in establishing a climate in which the required learning can take place.
The process shows participants how they personally react to the same real life issues on the job, giving them a better understanding of what changes are necessary and increases their commitment to change.
