Executive Challenge™ for Your Team

High-Potential Employee Development

Talent is the cornerstone of a company's success. However, retaining top performers depends on providing them with high-impact opportunities for growth. At the heart of developing high-potential employees is building their business acumen, strategic vision, and leadership skills. Executive Challenge™ provides an engaging platform to teach these learning objectives to top performers.

Executive Challenge™ is customizable to fit the development needs of your up-and-coming performers. Participants can practice financial analysis, implement managerial strategies, and respond to competitive pressures. The experience is enhanced with targeted debriefs at which participants discuss their team's successes and failures, reflect on personal behaviors, and draw parallels to their real-world experiences.

New Managers and Leaders

Transitioning into your first leadership role can be daunting. To prepare for the demands of their new role, managers need to hone their leadership, communication, and vision. Executive Challenge™ allows participants to test communication techniques and experience the pressures of management in a "safe" environment. Participants allocate resources, explore formal and informal authority, and manage unexpected issues. Structured facilitation models provide participants ample time for feedback, correction, and action planning for future improvement.

Mid-Level to Senior Executives

Leaders need encompassing vision. Often these individuals have been promoted because of excellent departmental performance, and development programs must focus on broadening their perspective. This simulation allows executives to lead the entire organization, rather than just a piece of it. To reinforce organization-specific training objectives, experienced facilitators introduce adverse events into the simulation and debrief their real-world parallels. Participants leave the experience with a big picture perspective of what it means to run a business.

College Pipeline Programs and Business Schools

Executive Challenge™ helps business students develop their leadership and communication skills and acquire business insight. Participants lead a business from the top, gaining enterprise-level business intuition and a deeper understanding of personal strengths and blind spots. The culminating presentation to a mock board of directors – often made up of professors and local business executives – is an excellent opportunity for participants to polish presentation skills and reflect on the material and their experiences.