Introduction
Simulations have been considered as powerful tools as they give us the ability to develop and nurture our management capabilities in a controlled environment. This is achieved through our ability to attempt a real-world process or system knowing we can go back on mistakes that have been made in order to better familiarise ourselves with the situation which lead to better results in any future runs. However, simulations do have a downfall in that they are merely just a representation of reality and participants may show more negligence towards it due to one’s ability to make mistakes within simulations without much punishment in return. Hence, simulations are definitely beneficial learning tools but in saying so they are also limited due to their trivial nature.
The Everest simulation was a team management simulation where five members and a spectator would attempt climb Everest. This report will focus on the importance of simulations with respect to our development of our individual leadership properties and it will analyse the problems and personal issues that arose throughout the simulation by both me and …show more content…
Initially in Everest 1, we were instantly faced with the issue of clarity within the user interface. I feel that this was a big issue as it hindered our understanding of our goals within the simulation. Since “simulations refers to any procedure that is meant to imitate a real life system” (w. Hinick, 2015, p.7) and we initially failed to realise how making decisions per round had any contribution towards the aim of the simulation being teamwork oriented. Due to the fact we knew this was a two phase simulation we at least understood there was going to be a discrepancy between our personalities and thought processes when comparing both of the trials hence assuming this was the learning aspect within the simulation we were supposed to
Simulations have been considered as powerful tools as they give us the ability to develop and nurture our management capabilities in a controlled environment. This is achieved through our ability to attempt a real-world process or system knowing we can go back on mistakes that have been made in order to better familiarise ourselves with the situation which lead to better results in any future runs. However, simulations do have a downfall in that they are merely just a representation of reality and participants may show more negligence towards it due to one’s ability to make mistakes within simulations without much punishment in return. Hence, simulations are definitely beneficial learning tools but in saying so they are also limited due to their trivial nature.
The Everest simulation was a team management simulation where five members and a spectator would attempt climb Everest. This report will focus on the importance of simulations with respect to our development of our individual leadership properties and it will analyse the problems and personal issues that arose throughout the simulation by both me and …show more content…
Initially in Everest 1, we were instantly faced with the issue of clarity within the user interface. I feel that this was a big issue as it hindered our understanding of our goals within the simulation. Since “simulations refers to any procedure that is meant to imitate a real life system” (w. Hinick, 2015, p.7) and we initially failed to realise how making decisions per round had any contribution towards the aim of the simulation being teamwork oriented. Due to the fact we knew this was a two phase simulation we at least understood there was going to be a discrepancy between our personalities and thought processes when comparing both of the trials hence assuming this was the learning aspect within the simulation we were supposed to