Management Challenge
Enhance your people managers’ skills through hands-on practice and AI-enabled conversations with simulated direct reports.
Coaching and Communication Practice for People Managers
Management Challenge is a team-based leadership development simulation 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.
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Why Management Challenge?
The demands on people managers are growing, and managers are experiencing a higher rate of failure. Management Challenge provides a space for mid- to senior-level 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.
AI-Enabled Learning
How Does it Work?
Participants are placed in a dynamic, competitive business simulation to:
Collaborate
Participants work and compete in small teams, managing the motivations and performance of a virtual team.
Practice
AI-enabled technology allows for true-to-life performance and coaching conversations that are followed up with detailed, actionable, realistic feedback for participants.
Reinforce
Realistic video-based workplace scenarios allow managers to practice having critical development and coaching conversations.
Reflect
Facilitator-led debriefs, discussions, and exercises allow managers to reflect, gain insight from feedback, and share their own experiences.
How Do I Use It?
Management Challenge easily supports your existing leadership development programs, whether you use an in-person or virtual learning journey. It 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
Start New Managers Off with Practice
New managers frequently grapple with the challenge of effectively motivating their team members, often resulting in employee burnout and high turnover rates. Management Challenge provides a safe space for these new leaders to practice the art of management through lifelike scenarios. Comprehensive debrief sessions and feedback mechanisms enable them to learn not only from their own actions but also from their peers.
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 practice managing a team and allows them to be more informed about their own career choices.
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 hires the opportunity to practice and to put their skills to the test.
Management Challenge by the Numbers
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; it allowed managers to practice their coaching and communication skills and facilitators to reinforce concepts that were taught during previous sessions.
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