Here we show how you can use business simulations to develop entrepreneurial skills, successfully use online concepts in teaching, or train employees and (junior) managers. In these articles, we also present current reading recommendations on business topics, practical digital tools and interesting platforms.
Distance learning, e-learning or learning anytime anywhere are fast becoming an essential part of educational systems and on-the-job trainings all over the world. What are the main advantages of online learning and how can TOPSIM help you facilitate your seminars completely remote?
Digitalization and changes at the workplace pose numerous challenges in the day-to-day work of today’s managers, who are faced with increasingly complex requirements. In this article, we present how TOPSIM Business Simulations can help you cope with these challenges.
Gamified approaches to learning have become a new trend and are finding their way more and more into modern education and on-the-job training. However, educational games are not a new method – they have been around for some time. The American scientist Clark C. Abt introduced the concept of...
In addition to technical expertise, soft skills play an increasingly important role in job searches and professional life. This article explains which soft skills you can develop through management simulations.
With management simulations, different seminar concepts can be implemented and flexibly adapted to specific audiences and across learning objectives. Taking Matering General Management as an example, we present 3 possible course designs with TOPSIM Business simulations.
You may have heard of “Death by PowerPoint”. This phenomenon is noticeable in presentations that contain boring standard images and distracting animations and are characterized by the accumulation of unimportant details. The listener begins to get bored, may switch off and the information does not get through. Pecha Kucha is an innovative method to make slideshows more effective.
Is learning a lot of hard work and not much fun? Not necessarily. Innovative, interactive learning methods, such as action learning, motivate learners and make the educational process more enjoyable. In this article, we explain how action learning works and why it is an effective approach.
Wargaming is one of the oldest simulation methods, with a history dating back to the 17th century. This approach originated with conflict games used to prepare for unexpected developments in military conflicts. Business wargames are used in companies to create and test strategies.
The TOPSIM-Cloud is flexible, easy to use and always up to date. This makes business simulation seminars an enjoyable experience for participants and instructors alike.
In our business simulations, participants assume the roles of a company’s management board (either individually or in teams). They must make decisions and address typical business, management, and strategy issues under time pressure. Read this article to learn why business simulations are so effective at training key skills for the digital age.