Pioneering AI in the virtual classroom

The new illustra accelerator marries our virtual environment's unique capabilities for real-time data capture with the power of AI to define a completely new paradigm in virtual learning.

Empowering Coaches and Trainers

Coaches and trainers work with real-time analysis of participant interactions and responses to dynamically adjust their delivery to heighten engagement and meet the real needs of participants.

Empowering Participants

Instant tailored feedback, provocations and coaching tips as individuals and teams solve problems and plan future actions deepens understanding and speeds up the pace of learning.

Business Simulations

With a mass movement towards remote working around the world it’s no surprise to find that a vast amount of critical instructor-based training is being translated into various virtual formats. But in the midst of countless hours of virtual meetings how can these training programs reach out and grab our attention in ways that can make a difference. One solution that gaining increasing traction is the production of dramatized business simulations.

Our experienced creative and technical teams have produced video simulations for many of the worlds leading organizations. These meticulously researched simulations are designed to enable leaders to come together in virtual workshops and experience tackling challenges and opportunities that accurately mirror those to be found in their own organization or in the organizations of their customers. These simulations are being used to drive new strategies and initiatives and to enable sales and marketing teams to develop new approaches to customers and markets.

“ I never try to teach my students anything. I only try to create an environment in which they can learn.”

Albert Einstein

Practice There is no better learning environment than seeing your people in action. Facilitated by Illustra – Coached by your sales leaders

We are talking about simulations that are individually created for specific, defined sales situations.

•  They are not generic

• They are live and facilitated in person!

• They are quick to develop!

• They do not cost a fortune to make!

They do need to be scripted, designed, and developed. Illustra video simulations are designed to provide immersive interactive learning experiences within virtual workshops. They are based on in depth research of the problems, objections and challenges that are encountered every day in the business. This involves Illustra and the client. However, the effort is worth it.

Simulation provides the best learning environment

• Memorable: improved retention of key learnings

• Engaging: challenging and demanding of attention.

• Personal: each participant brings their own thinking.

Role-play enables the practice of new skills and behaviors

Sessions can be recorded for play back and learning.

We help companies achieve their objectives by unlocking the potential of high performance teams

A team mindset in a changing world

The Riddle of Teams

Effective team behavior is one of the most important determinants of business success. Our work is focused on helping people explore and deepen their understanding of the mindsets and behaviors that will enable teams to realize their potential and achieve their goals.

In his recent book “The Riddle of Teams” our faculty director Dr Valerio Pascotto draws on over 20 year experience working with teams around the world. Through numerous inspiring practical examples he reveals the impact that shifting your mindset can have on the performance of a team and its members.

Drawing on insights from “The Riddle of Teams” our workshops and programs engage participants in collaborative learning experiences that enable them to explore the impact that a team mindset can have on performance.

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team,”

Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn cofounder

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”

Michael Jordan

Workshop 1 Building a team mindset

The workshop is designed around the five critical disciplines that unlock the potential of high performance teams. Participants have ample opportunity to practice the necessary behaviors and skills while working in small teams to explore how learnings will be applied.

• Equal Responsibility

• Conscious Thought and Action

• Honoring Agreements

• Reaching for Excellence

• Helping Each Other

Workshop 2 Leadership in a high performance team

This intensive workshop enables leaders to explore and adopt approaches and behaviors that can release untapped potential within the organization.  Leaders incorporate effective coaching and feedback as key elements in their own personal leadership style

• The team mindset to lead diverse, fair, and inclusive teams

• Psychological safety

• Addressing unconscious bias

• Emotional intelligence as the conduit to collective intelligence

• Manage performance, measures and experiments that embody fairness and build trust.

• Driving inclusion conscious of the impact of similarity bias.

Workshop 3 A team mindset in a changing world

Addressing change effectively is critical to the success of every business. This final workshop enables participants to plan how to leverage the team mindset to address a strategic issue that has been identified as currently critical to the business. These could be:

• A change initiative

• Engagement and motivation

• Retention

• Increasing collaboration

• Hybrid working environment 

       

“A celebration of a truly scientific approach to business, one which seeks to find out what you don't know, rather than endlessly optimizing on the little that you do.” Rory Sutherland Founder and Vice Chairman at Ogilvy UK

“Having worked with both authors I am continually struck by the impact that they and their methodology has on senior leaders. Their approach is both provocative and pragmatic and has led to some amazing experiment results.” Roger Minton. Head of Leadership development Anglo American

A catalyst for change

The breakthrough program has been designed to act as a catalyst for culture change within an organization. Providing frontline people with the skills and opportunities to innovate opens the door to a wide variety of potentially disruptive and counterintuitive ideas. Ideas that can have the potential to revolutionize an industry.

Strategic initiatives

The program can be tailored and enhanced to support specific businesses strategies with the addition of workshops and inputs from world-renowned subject matter experts from Illustra's virtual faculty.

Little big things

While experimentation can be used to drive innovation across many different areas of the business including problem solving, performance improvement and strategic growth it is often small scale experiments and innovations that have the most significant impact on the day to day effectiveness of the business.

Dr Rebecca Homkes

Adjunct and Fellow at the London Business School. Director at the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre. Advisor to CEOs and executives globally on strategy/ execution. Her recent work on strategy execution “Why Strategy Execution unravels – and what to do about it”. Published in the March 2015 edition of the Harvard Business Review. Selected as top definitive management idea of the year. Her work sheds light on why many organizations fail when it comes to fully executing their key strategies

PROGRAMS

Virtual programs that unlock the potential of high performance teams to address strategic challenges that face the business

One of the most critical steps in developing a culture of innovation is recognizing the importance of experimentation. The experimentation mindset frees us from self-imposed constraints, allowing us to learn and improve continually. In this program, Jules Goddard, a preeminent thinker and author on strategy and innovation, helps participants explore the role that experimentation can play in their own work. Allowing the individual, the team, and the organization to learn, innovate, and adapt at the speed that is now essential in today's constantly changing business environment.

During this program participants design and implement their own experiments, often giving rise to practical innovations that can be of benefit to the whole enterprise