Simulate: Management Scenarios | 3by3Grid

Simulate puts you in realistic management scenarios. Make decisions, see the consequences and get coaching on what experienced managers would do differently.

Topics

  • Financial Management Managing financial performance through budgeting, forecasting, and cost and investment decision-making. Covers financial analysis, cash flow, profitability, pricing models, capital allocation, and KP…
  • People Management Enabling high-performing teams through effective leadership, coaching, and talent development. Includes performance management, feedback, recruitment, onboarding, succession planning, employee engage…
  • Teamwork & Collaboration Building effective cross-functional collaboration through trust, communication, and shared accountability. This category covers techniques for improving teamwork, facilitation, conflict resolution, p…
  • Decision Making & Analysis Applying structured thinking and analytical methods to improve judgement under uncertainty. This includes prioritisation, trade-off evaluation, scenario planning, root cause analysis, and data-driven…
  • Sales Efficiency Improving sales performance through better pipeline management, forecasting, and revenue optimisation. This category focuses on sales analytics, lead and opportunity management, customer lifecycle in…
  • Self-Leadership Developing personal effectiveness, discipline, and resilience to perform consistently in complex environments. Covers time management, emotional regulation, goal setting, productivity habits, reflect…
  • Governance, Risk & Compliance Ensuring organisational integrity through strong governance, risk management, and compliance practices. Covers internal controls, regulatory standards, ethics, audit readiness, data privacy, business…
  • Communication Improving clarity, influence, and impact in how ideas are expressed and received. This category includes storytelling, writing skills, presentations, negotiation, stakeholder alignment, active listen…
  • Strategy Defining long-term direction and competitive positioning to create sustainable advantage. Includes market analysis, business models, scenario planning, value proposition design, portfolio decisions,…
  • Operations & Continuous Improvement Driving operational excellence through process optimisation, standardisation, and efficiency improvement. Covers lean thinking, workflow design, automation, capacity planning, quality assurance, and…
  • Organizational Design & Change Designing and evolving organisational structures, operating models, and culture to improve performance and adaptability. Includes workforce planning, role clarity, transformation roadmaps, change ado…
  • Project & Program Management Delivering successful outcomes through structured planning, execution, and control of initiatives. Covers scheduling, dependencies, scope management, RAID tracking, stakeholder coordination, resource…
  • AI/SI Adoption Integrating AI agents into everyday work with confidence and clear accountability. This includes delegating tasks and setting agent autonomy, defining boundaries and review, assigning ownership, rede…

All simulations

  • Building a Career Path for Someone Who Might Leave Anyway Your best analyst has started job-hunting out loud. You have one development conversation this week to build a career path specific enough to change his mind, without promising a promotion timeline H…
  • Coaching a Star Through a Confidence Crash Coaching a formerly reliable direct report back from a confidence crash is one of the hardest conversations a new manager will face, especially with no script and the team watching. This simulation p…
  • Delivering the Promotion Rejection Without Losing the Person Your top performer just lost the promotion she's waited two years for, and she doesn't know it yet. This simulation tests whether you can deliver hard news and apply the feedforward technique to redi…
  • Forecasting a Storm You Can't See A possible port strike threatens to gut a retailer's peak-season inventory, and there's no confirmed strike date to plan around. This simulation puts a supply chain manager through the real decision:…
  • Handle A Vendor Breach During Audit Week A manager mid-audit for ISO 27001 certification learns a critical subprocessor has been breached, with the auditor's supplier review starting in 24 hours and two enterprise renewals hanging on certif…
  • Mapping the Waste Everyone Learned to Live With Order-to-ship time has crept up 40% with no single culprit, and leadership wants answers in three weeks. This value stream mapping simulation puts you on the floor, separating the real bottleneck fro…
  • Marketing Is Threatening to Stop Sending Leads at All Marketing's VP has given you one week to fix a lead response time that's crept past four hours, or every qualified lead gets rerouted to a partner channel instead of your team. This simulation puts y…
  • The Board Doesn't Believe the Market Has Changed As Meridian Freight's Chief Strategy Officer, you have one board meeting to defend a growth strategy pivot against the board chair who built the plan a new competitor just broke. This simulation test…
  • The Contract's Signed and the Team's Already Over Capacity Three weeks after signing your firm's biggest contract, the team is 30% over capacity and the penalty clock is already running. This simulation puts you through a live capacity planning call: cut pro…
  • The Forecast Number Everyone Wants Bigger Than It Is A regional sales manager has one night to submit a defensible sales forecast commit, and a VP who already promised a bigger number to the board wants two shaky deals reclassified to close the gap. Th…
  • The Inbox That Never Empties Three urgent requests land in the same two hours on your first stretch running the team solo, a director, a top client, and a peer who's owed you a favor, and you have to decide out loud what actuall…
  • The Merger Where the Systems Never Actually Merged Eight months after your company's merger closed, two finance teams are still running separate approval chains, and year-end close is six weeks out. This post-merger integration simulation tests wheth…
  • The OKRs Nobody Actually Owns When a self-organizing pod sets shared OKRs by dot vote and skips the ownership work, deadlines quietly slip until someone has to name it. This simulation puts you in charge of building shared OKR ac…
  • The Process No One Wrote Down, Failing in Real Time An operations manager has 48 hours to document an undocumented process while a client audit is already underway and three team members describe the same workflow three different ways. This simulation…
  • The Product Line Everyone Loves But the Numbers Don't Your company's founding product still gets internal loyalty, but three years of declining margin have put it on the CFO's list. This product portfolio strategy simulation puts you in the VP's seat tw…
  • The Project That Shouldn't Pass Its Next Gate Practice the stage gate review moment every project manager dreads: the evidence says stop, but the sponsor watching from the review board expects a pass. This simulation tests whether you can turn h…
  • The Ransomware Note That Beat the Notification Clock Three production servers go dark at 6am with a ransomware note attached, and the regulator's 72-hour breach notification clock is already running. This ransomware incident response simulation puts yo…
  • The Renewal One Bad Call Away From Walking Your biggest renewal is five days from a competitor bid, and the only clue you have is a cratered Customer Effort Score. This sales efficiency simulation puts you on the save call, where you have thi…
  • The Risk You Logged and Then Watched Happen A board wants to know why an accepted risk was allowed to happen. This simulation puts you in the room 48 hours after a supplier failure you saw coming eight months ago, and asks you to defend a gove…
  • The Rollout That Worked Everywhere Except the Region That Matters Practice diagnosing why a system rollout succeeded everywhere except your region. This system adoption simulation puts you in charge of one region generating a third of company revenue, three weeks t…
  • The Root Cause Everyone Missed Five days before an external quality audit, a plant operations manager must choose between patching a recurring defect and actually tracing its root cause. This root cause analysis simulation tests w…
  • The Status Report Nobody Wants to Read Practice writing a project status report a steering committee will actually act on, not one that only looks clean. This program management simulation drops you into a platform migration two sprints b…
  • The Successor Who Doesn't Fit the Old Org Chart An outgoing operations VP has two weeks to decide whether her technically excellent successor is ready for a role built on relationships he's never had to manage. This simulation tests a real success…
  • The Team That Stopped Showing Up for Each Other A regional sales manager has one quarter to rebuild account visibility across a nine-person team spread over three time zones, before stalled deals cost the region a second straight miss. Practice re…
  • The Test Result Everyone Wants to Read Differently Your pricing page test lifted sign-ups, but the customers it brought in are smaller and slower to activate. This simulation tests how you interpret mixed A/B test results when the CEO wants a rollout…
  • The Two Teams That Merged on Paper Only Practice merging two teams that still work like strangers after an acquisition. This simulation puts you in charge of both engineering teams with a joint release six weeks out, forcing you to build s…
  • The Vision Statement Nobody Believes Anymore Step into a family manufacturer's boardroom, split over its next move, and rebuild a vision statement the plant floor will actually follow. Test whether you can set a real strategic direction under d…
  • Two Projects, One Engineer, No Extra Hours A hands-on resource leveling simulation for portfolio and PMO leads: relevel two competing project schedules that both depend on the same specialist, before either sponsor finds out from the other. P…
  • Two Roadmaps, One Quarter, No Referee Resolve a real roadmap standoff with your Engineering counterpart when the manager who normally arbitrates is out for the quarter. This roadmap conflict resolution simulation tests whether you can cl…