Resources

Working notes, not thought leadership.

15 pieces in five clusters, written by people who run these sessions. How to debrief one so it transfers, how to prove it did, what one costs and why, which format fits, and where it belongs in the programme.

• How do I show this worked?

  Proving the session did something

  Reaction scores come back between 4.2 and 4.7 every time and tell a sponsor nothing. These are the measurements that survive being questioned.

  • Measuring behaviour change, not satisfaction5 min
  • The four evaluation levels, and which two are worth your time5 min
  • A training ROI figure that holds up in the room6 min
• How do I run this well?

  Running the room

  The game is not the intervention. What a facilitator does with the forty minutes after it, with two hundred people, or when the session goes sideways — that is the intervention.

  • How to debrief an experiential session so the learning sticks5 min
  • Facilitating two hundred people without losing the room6 min
  • What to do when a session goes wrong mid-round6 min
• What am I actually buying, and what should it cost?

  Buying a simulation

  Two quotes for the same brief can sit a factor of ten apart. The spread is not margin, and a buyer who can name the drivers negotiates better.

  • What a simulation costs a corporate buyer, and what drives the price6 min
  • Eleven questions that separate a provider from a reseller6 min
  • Writing a brief that gets you comparable bids5 min
• Which format fits this brief?

  Choosing the format

  Physical or digital, in a room or on a call, twelve people or five hundred. Each of those choices changes what the session can produce, and none of them is a preference.

  • When a physical game beats a digital one4 min
  • Running a virtual session that is not a webinar5 min
  • What group size actually changes5 min
• Where does this fit in the wider programme?

  Designing around the session

  A simulation is one day. Whether it changes anything is settled by the weeks either side of it, which is the part nobody designs.

  • Where a simulation fits in a learning journey5 min
  • Why transfer fails, and the one person who decides it5 min
  • Sequencing a multi-day programme5 min