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The Apprenticeship
Here at Pearlcatchers, we are celebrating another series of ‘The Apprentice’ – what we find most interesting is how the pressure and competition results in the candidates making some really basic business errors.
Our event / business simulation - The Apprenticeship - gives you the chance to put your current and potential managers to the test by setting them one or more of our range of business challenges. Our charismatic CEO will call candidates into ‘the boardroom’ to get them to review their performance and (unlike Sir Alan) provide constructive feedback on how they can improve as individuals and as teams.
Each challenge would last from 2 to 6 hours and can be combined to incorporate a range of different challenges over one, two or even three days. As with all our business simulations, you have the option to incorporate relevant Master classes to give tips on the skills required for each challenge and / or more detailed feedback and review sessions. To add the aspect of competition, candidates are split into teams – each of whom has to elect a project manager and perform better than the other team.
Throughout each challenge they will use a range of skills, from creativity to leadership, from planning to negotiation and from budgeting to risk management. Example challenges include:
• Choose one of a selection of (weird and wonderful) new products and then design an advertising
campaign, including a poster and TV ad. To add a little more fun, we could insist that you use a silly theme
/ costumes for your ad, such as ‘the wild west’, ‘space wars’, or ‘back to school’
• Design and produce a charity calendar, which you then have to sell to ‘buyers’ from key retail outlets
• Purchase / obtain items from a set list for the cheapest price
• Stage a fund raising event
• Design a new teambuilding event concept and demonstrate this to event companies who may be interested
in licensing it
