Catch-22: Business requires risk, but cannot tolerate failure. Simulations are often the only way to provide your managers the vital experience they need, in an environment that won’t cost lives, money, or just next year’s contract. Real decisions -- lessons that stick -- require the emotional, physical, and intellectual investment that an incisive simulation delivers. Palatine has been developing high performance business simulations for business since the 1970s. Our customized, highly interactive computer-based simulations compress months of hands-on experience into less than 20 hours, ensuring the skills your team needs to succeed.

Why Simulations? Simple: would you rather hear about a racecar, or drive one? Are you more likely to remember the experience, or the emails you sent about it? And did anyone ever learn to drive from a book?

Our highly interactive simulations deliver emotional, meaningful, and personal connectivity to complex knowledge acquisition. Our custom-built simulations take the most dynamic scenarios from our customers’ business arenas, and turn them into compelling narratives that drive lessons all the way home.

Our training and performance support programs produce managers who are measurably more effective, both as individuals and within their teams. We can compress months of hands-on experience into a two-day workshop, or summon the wisdom of years within a keystroke.

Our simulations are complex and challenging and are principally designed for middle management. The average number of participants is 20-30, though our learning designs can accommodate larger or smaller groups. Usually one consultant runs the workshop, however we can also train a client’s facilitator or team.

Our simulations provide powerful contexts for applied learning and maximize active involvement in the learning process. Participants are transported into a virtual learning space and immersed in a life-like project. Users reason for themselves, test out different assumptions and business practices, make decisions, and receive immediate and accurate feedback that challenges their reasoning.

Organized into teams of project leaders, participants become an agent of their own learning, shifting the traditional face-to-face instruction into a project-learning laboratory. Here, they can explore tough issues, take risks, and confront the unknown without the repercussions that might result by confronting those issues for the first time at work.

The collapsing of time and space inherent in our well designed, experiential simulations make it possible to recognize what is often clouded or seemingly invisible tacit knowledge. It’s a mode of learning consistent with the core values of self-determination, teamwork and collaboration inherent in the project management profession.

Here's what the industry is saying:

Palatine's Project Leadership Simulation Workshop (15 years with NASA)

"Palatine Group is one of a very short list of truly valued consulting/training companies whom I have come to rely on heavily. Usually, companies will hire a consulting firm to tell them what they need to do to change, to grow, to compete. But I think many companies already have the answers - they just don't know it because they're buried. That's why Palatine Group has such tremendous value. They don't pretend to think for you, or tell you how to build your business. But they will help you decide what kind of training your people need, so that you can build and strategize for yourselves. When it comes to experience, quality and professionalism - and leadership training -- Palatine Group outperforms the best."

-- Dr. Edward Hoffman, Director, Program and Project Management (APPL) NASA