Business Acumen Training for Managers and Employees
Zodiak for Government Product Overview
The Business Simulation
Zodiak: The Working Capital Fund is a four- to five-hour classroom business simulation, which quickly immerses participants in the challenge of managing the financial and strategic operations of Zodiak, a critical municipal department. They must immediately address these issues:
- Demands for services that exceed appropriations
- Deficits and budget cuts
- Inventory turnover
- Vendor relationships and purchasing impacts
- Cash flow
- Personnel disengagement
Connections — Bridging to Your Organization
Connections exercises create a bridge from the classroom simulation to the participants’ organization.
You can use the exercises provided with the program, or work with Paradigm Learning to customize Connections for an even closer fit with your issues and your audience.
Uses
- Consider using Zodiak to:
- Boost your current leadership curriculum
- Teach finance to non-financial managers
- Help employees understand how they impact company's financial health
- Accelerate major change efforts
- Establish a common foundation of business understanding
- Improve employee ownership and/or profit-sharing programs
- Enhance a business literacy “event”
Target Audience Managers, supervisors, individual contributors and employees.
Time Frame
One day - 4- to 5-hour Zodiak game and 1½- to 2-hour Connections session.
Training Delivery
Paradigm Learning can train your own in-house facilitators or provide experienced discovery learning facilitators to conduct your sessions.
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