Strategy under pressure. Leadership on display.
A competitive simulation that reveals how your leaders decide, adapt, and align when millions (and minutes) are on the line.
What You'll See (and Feel)
Strategy Huddle
Teams scan the data, debate, and agree on their starting approach. Everyone’s convinced their strategy is the winner. Energy is high.
Franchise Auction
It heats up. Like a real auction, logic goes out the window. Bids fly, emotions spike. One team almost always overpays. It’s a powerful moment where competition starts to override control.
Player Draft
Fast, competitive, ruthless. Teams race to build the perfect lineup, miss their top picks, scramble for backups. Recovery becomes the game. Shows who adapts under pressure.
Yearly Reviews & Wild Cards
Scores are revealed. Some celebrate, some scramble. New players up for auction. Second chance for some, trap for others. Energy shifts with every reveal.
Winners & Debrief
Applause, surprise, sometimes heartbreak. But the real payoff is the reflection. The debrief surfaces patterns that are often personal and unexpected. One participant said: ‘I saw more about my leadership style in this game than in any feedback report.’
In the room
Real materials. Real pressure. Real decisions.
Every team receives physical franchise materials: player cards, budget sheets, and strategy boards. The simulation runs live, not on a screen. Decisions are made face-to-face, under time pressure, with consequences that compound every round.
Who This Is For
For CEOs who want to see how their team actually operates under pressure. Not how they talk about it in a meeting.
- Your offsite needs to produce more than team bonding
- Your emerging leaders need to think more commercially
- You’ve got new people and want to see how they work together, fast
- Your Vistage or TEC group needs something memorable
- You want a sharp opener for an offsite that actually shifts something
- You need a development experience that reveals real behaviour, not self-reported competencies
What It Reveals
Strategic thinking under constraints
How your leaders prioritise when resources are limited and time is short. Participants practise setting strategy and adjusting in real time, learning to cut through noise and weigh short-term wins against long-term vision.
Emotional decision-making
What happens to judgement when competition and ego enter the room. The simulation reveals how time pressure and competitive dynamics shape decisions in ways leaders rarely see in normal conditions.
Alignment under pressure
Whether your team holds its strategy or fractures when things get difficult. It’s one thing to have a plan. It’s another to hold alignment when the pressure is on and the plan stops working.
The knowing-doing gap
The distance between knowing the right thing and doing it when it counts. Most leaders know what good decision-making looks like. The simulation shows whether they can do it under real conditions.
Default leadership behaviours
The individual patterns that shape team outcomes. Who drives the conversation, who holds back, who challenges assumptions, who avoids the hard call. Visible only under pressure.
From insight to action
The debrief translates behaviour into habits. Participants leave setting action goals, not just performance goals. The change starts in the room, not after it.
The mechanics
Player cards, auctions, and live scoring
Teams draft players, manage budgets, and build rosters across multiple rounds. Every decision is visible on the player card wall, and every team can see what their competitors are doing. The pressure builds naturally.
What People Say
“I saw more about my default leadership style in this simulation than in any feedback report I’ve ever received.”
“It really lifts the veil on the competing considerations at play in any business decision. The simulation was such a powerful way to elevate everyone’s thinking and to get people looking through a different lens.”
Logistics
Duration
2.5–3 hours including debrief
Format
In-person preferred, virtual possible
Group Size
6–30 people
Energy
High energy, competitive, fast
Includes facilitation, debrief session, and a reflection booklet for every participant.
Pricing
$3,500
Investment starts from $3,500 for groups up to 30. Travel on top.
For a group of 20, that’s under $175 per head. For 30, under $120. Less than most team lunches.
30+ sessions delivered. Franchise teams across Australia.
Ready to see your team in action?
A quick call is all it takes to work out which simulation fits your team and your goals.
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