The Gym

A Northgate Training Game

An ideal business simulation game to learn about running a business.

With this training game, teams run a leisure club for a simulated three-year period to see who manages it best. Will teams really appreciate what's needed to turn the business round – and reverse the current trend of members leaving in droves!

Teams receive details of a slightly run-down leisure centre. While it still has a reasonable membership, it is falling and there have been no new facilities in recent years – and current management is weak. Something needs to be done – and quickly.

Teams decide on a business strategy and complete a Decision Form each period on key variables (membership fees, marketing spend, staff numbers and pay) and can add new facilities such as tennis or squash courts, a spa or crèche.

Financial reports are printed for each team every period – plus customer feedback and staff problems. Running a successful business is never easy!

Strategy is a skill not a formula. Now is the time to make a good business strategy one of your skills.

Learning Benefits from this business simulation game:

• allows teams to assess the state of a current business
• highlights need to listen to what customers are saying
• encourages entrepreneurial spirit
• stresses the importance of knowing what the competition is doing
• shows that innovation is crucial to any business
• helps develop effective teamwork
• opportunity for participants to learn about financial reports and developing an effective strategy to run a business.

What it does

The training material tests group decision-making. Can the team reach decisions amicably and without conflict? Can they manage the competing needs of making a profit and keeping the customer happy!

How well do teams reach consensus? They are asked to make individual decisions as well as the all-important group decisions. How will one team member react when he or she is taken out of the group to make an important decision on behalf of the company? Will the team have defined a set of core values against which they can make their decision? And how will the team react if they have made the wrong choice?

The business strategy game focuses on:

• The balance between profit and customer service
• Problem Solving
• Group decision making
• Developing a decision-making framework
• Teamwork
• The unforeseen consequences of one's decisions
• The value of everyone's contribution
• Managing conflict.

Download a PDF file of this business strategy game

Buy this game and use it many times; or we will run it for you. Please contact us for more information.

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We develop and sell a wide range of business simulation games and training material. We also sell selected training activities and games produced by other top training companies that achieve excellent results in our training courses and events. This training activity like many of the business games we sell, allows you to build your collection of readymade trainer-led activities or tailor your own training program. The activities are ideal for your training course, seminar or conference.

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Prefer us to run the game? No problem

Our facilitators will run a business game or training activity at your management conference, seminar or training course.

Just let us know what you want to achieve from running the game and relax in the knowledge that we will make the game interesting, enjoyable and beneficial.

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