The Buzz About Discovery Learning

Paradigm Learning uses business games and business simulations to create learning experiences that are fun, challenging and content-rich. Our corporate training programs for leaders, managers and employees target strategic issues such as business acumen, talent leadership, leadership accountability, organizational change, sales effectiveness and project management.

Three reasons why our programs are more powerful than others':

• We use unique discovery learning techniques that result in higher engagement, understanding, application and learning retention for participants.
• Our business games and business simulations have been used by thousands of employees at Fortune 500 organizations since 1994. This "real-world durability" enables us to fine-tune the storylines, game processes, exercises, activities and other content over time.
• They're easy to facilitate, giving you the flexibility to train your trainers or use our highly experienced facilitators — you choose.

What are you waiting for? Discover for yourself what Paradigm Learning can do to impact real performance at your organization.

Zodiak^®: The Game of Business Finance and Strategy

Business acumen training for managers, employees and sales professionals

Zodiak is a one-day, classroom-based discovery learning experience that enhances the business acumen of executives, managers, sales professionals, new leaders, individual contributors and team leaders.

This high-energy business simulation — disguised as a fast-paced game — puts participants in the role of new owners of a struggling company.  Over the course of three simulated years, they handle chance events and make critical decisions around such strategic issues as capital investments, staffing, pricing, new products and more.

Countdown^®: A Strategy Game for Project Teams

A challenging business simulation for project managers and project team members

Countdown is a fast-paced, highly-interactive classroom simulation that engages small teams of learners as project team members on a business-critical, high-pressure project.

Given a tight deadline, conflicting sponsor demands, resource conflicts, vendor delays and changing customer expectations, teams analyze information and make decisions using a variety of project management tools and techniques. In the process, learners discover the importance of these tools as well as the processes and project team behaviors required for a successful outcome.

Discovery Maps^®

Strategic communication + employee engagement = organizational alignment

Discovery Maps are fully customized educational sessions designed to align employees around corporate vision, strategies and new initiatives.  Colorful table-sized maps create the visual foundation for a one- to three-hour learning experience that transfers knowledge with unrivaled clarity using discovery learning techniques.

Impact5^®: The Business of Leadership Game

Transforming your managers into accountable leaders 

Impact5 is a business simulation designed to develop the strong sense of accountability that leaders need to drive results. Using a challenging slice-of-reality business simulation, Impact5 helps managers and leaders link their competencies to results in three areas: customer, organizational and financial.

Learners explore complex issues, make decisions and analyze results, and develop perspective about their leadership role in five key accountability areas.  After the simulation, and armed with these new insights, they analyze their own leadership focus and learn how to use critical thinking guides to make decisions on the job.

Mosaic^®: The Art of Talent Leadership

A discovery learning program that transforms managers into talent leaders

Mosaic was developed with input from our Fortune 500 clients to address contemporary talent leadership issues. This dynamic program — using visual communications tools, energizing activities and intriguing case studies — guides participants through every aspect of talent leadership and helps them understand why this skill is critical to success. It's designed to work right out of the box, and yet can be fully customized to connect with your unique business conditions and challenges.

Right Turns: Change in Action^®

A dynamic session about change that builds the commitment of employees and the skills of managers 

Right Turns is a powerful, fast-paced discovery learning experience for managers and employees about organizational change — its challenges and opportunities, as well as the actions and behaviors that lead to success.

Small teams gather around an engaging Discovery Map® illustration and participate in activities that build insights about change in their company, departments and jobs. In this fun, fast-paced session, participants explore the why, what and how of change, discover where they fit into the overall picture, and develop a keener understanding and appreciation for your organization’s change imperatives.

Neon Buzz^®: Lighting Up Organizational Performance

A powerful one-day program about team effectiveness and empowerment

Neon Buzz is a fast-paced, one day business simulation that demonstrates the power of teams and teamwork.  At first working in “silos,” and later working with others in an empowered, team-based environment, learners discover the advantages of team synergy, as well as the importance of process improvement, productivity initiatives, collaborative behaviors, customer focus and more.

Team leaders discover what it takes to manage teams as they develop insights into their own ability to empower, motivate and champion team members around a shared vision of success.

Paradigm Custom

Your critical business issues, our unique learning designs

We work with our clients to create communication and educational programs from scratch, using our unique discovery learning methodology and high-impact learning and retention techniques.  We start with your issues and content, and build powerful business games, simulations, Discovery Maps® and other learning experiences that are fun, fast and focused … and, most important, effective.