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Mention the word ‘simulation training’, and visions of airline pilots, race car drivers and astronauts immediately spring to mind. But a Sydney business training company has turned the concept towards a different target – executives and managers.
Abbott Training Systems has been training business people for more than two decades, and is now using a state-of-the-art software platform to enhance learning through simulation.
Kristi Abbott, Communications and Distribution Manager, said more than 20 companies in Australia, including Boots Healthcare, ING Australia, Colgate Palmolive and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia had already tested Abbott Project Leadership Simulation (APL). The results have been incredibly successful,” she said. Ms Abbott said the program’s author, Abbott Training System director John Abbott, had aptly summed up the goal of the simulation. "NASA built flight simulators to teach pilots how to fly – Abbott came up with a simulator to teach people how to lead,” she said.
The interactive program allows participants to practice a range of skills, including leadership, behavioural and management, giving them feedback along the way. Ms Abbott said one of the greatest attractions of the program was that it gave people the chance to try anything out, even make mistakes, without any human cost. “This is a risk-free environment in which they can really test their ideas,” she said.
The APL system has already made a successful foray into the international market, so much so that it has so far been translated into Finnish, Lithuanian and Italian. Talks are underway to take the program into other countries, especially in Europe. “APL should appeal to overseas and local investors because it is proven technology that fills an identified need in the marketplace, which is project management and leadership training,” she said. “The concepts and theories espoused in the simulation are international and transcend any cultural differences.”