Training Philosophy

Train Like You Play

The Train Like You Play philosophy focuses on a new training approach of embracing the context of particular workplaces.  By bringing workplace influences to the training environment participants are encouraged to Train Like They Play.

Influences replicated in the training environment may include but are not limited to:

• Uncertain, dynamic environments
• Interpersonal difficulties and stressors
• Shifting, ill-defined or competing goals
• Lack of information
• Ongoing activity with continuous feedback
• Appropriate stress levels and friction
• Time stress

Anecdotally stories abound of staff who attend training and yet their performance in the workplace remains unchanged.  By closely replicating the influencing factors of the workplace in training this demonstrates to participants what can and does occur in difficult situations.  It is under these conditions that, participants are more inclined to see that when they are under the influence of stress, information is not shared properly, alternate solutions are not adequately explored, decision making accuracy declines, and in some cases decision inertia results.   It is this reality that changes the way people think.

Elite groups the world over have long embraced immersion training, to Train Like They Play to ensure that quantifiable change occurs where it is required – in the individual, who then in turn changes the workplace by using this knowledge and skill.  As Tolstoy said “Everyone wants to change the world, but no one wants to change themselves”.  Until now!

So how do we make this happen? By using:

 In today’s competitive marketplace employers need to figure out how to make their staff the point of difference.  Because every job is different and every workplace is different the Train Like You Play philosophy provides a flexible and adaptable approach to achieve this differentiator.