Training Philosophy and Methods

• Overview
• A Rewarding Experience
• Encouraging Mistakes
• Ways of Learning
• Learning Through Activities
• Skill Building
• Our Trainers

Learning Through Activities

The Science of Strategy Institute uses a series of activities to make learning interesting and to ensure that the lessons are remembered. These are sometimes known as “accelerated learning techniques.” In neural-linguistic programs they call this using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic sensory styles of teaching to engage people. We just call it learning through activities. 

We use a variety of activities in our programs.  All these activities are designed to involve the participants in the experience:

• strategy games (simulations)
• team exercises
• case studies
• competitions
• take-home exercises
• and more to illustrate the principles of strategy

With these activities, we go beyond explaining front-line strategy in technical terms. We give participants experience in using the techniques of strategy and seeing how they work. For example, at the beginning of our one-day workshop, we play a game called "Win or Die," which illustrates why front-line strategy cannot be planned ahead of time.  As in all competition, everyone in the room plans to win the competition, but most do not succeed. The flaw is never in their planning but in what happens making decisions in the course of the event. None of these decisions could have been planned ahead of time. This raises the question of what factors come into play in separating the winner from the losers.