Action-Planning Workshop™

PriSim’s Action Planning Workshop takes management and leadership development to its ultimate conclusion – application in producing real-world solutions and action plans.
Your decision-makers will immediately apply business concepts learned during your PriSim course to real-world planning.
The Action Planning Workshop™ Process
Core Activities
- Planning and Pre-Work
- Senior sponsors participate in 30-minute course-design calls to determine scope and direction of the Action Planning activity (the direction can be the same for each participant or uniquely tailored to their market/function).
- Identify planning teams.
- Participants complete workshop pre-work.
- Run Simulated Company, Applying Business Fundamentals
- Participants engage in learning/debate/discussion using a state-of-the-art business simulation.
- Participant teams compete against one another in a multi-year competition where Action Planning is practiced and refined in the simulated marketplace.
- Apply Concepts Learned to Planning Sessions
- At specific times during the workshop participants disengage from the simulation to complete at least two real-world planning assignments.
- Assignment 1: Situation Analysis/SWOT.
- Assignment 2: Objective/Goal Setting and Action Planning.
- Post-Workshop Implementation and Monitoring (optional)
- Participants are monitored and tracked on implementation by a coach (either an internal or PriSimprovided coach).
Optional Activities
- Planning and Pre-Work
- Participants gather information/data on current real-world situation/environment to apply in planning exercises.
- Run Simulated Company, Applying Business Fundamentals
- Participants hear from past participants regarding their successes and failures in implementing significant action plans.
- Apply Concepts Learned to Planning Sessions
- Senior sponsors review and provide feedback on planning assignments.
- Participants share and review each others’ plans.
- Participants commit to an implementation timeframe.
- Post-Workshop Implementation and Monitoring (optional)
- Results are collected and communicated to the organization.
- The planners selected as “most successful” attend the next workshop to share best practice, insights, and to
mentor.
Participant Comments
- “It is a powerful exercise as agencies undergo business planning. Having individuals develop preliminary plans, and then spend a few days with peers to model their ideas in a simulation, can help challenge assumptions and allows for testing the ideas in a safe environment.”
- “The planning portion of the Simulation helps a team uncover the most important goals and helps to focus the short term activities on those goals.”
- “I spent time with peers and got a lot of information to do local planning.”
- “Our folks came away feeling more empowered and with a better appreciation of strategic actions they can put in place to really make a difference.”