The BTS Leader Lab
A simulation-based leadership assessment where leaders run a business and navigate real-world challenges.
A real-world test of leadership performance.
A BTS Leader Lab is a simulation-based leadership assessment where leaders run a business and navigate real-world challenges.
Leaders step into a fully integrated business simulation, making strategic, financial, and people decisions across scenarios like board meetings, investor presentations, and team challenges. Their performance is observed across these interactions and evaluated against defined leadership standards using multi-source feedback. The result is clear, data-backed insight into leadership capability, readiness, and development priorities.
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I need my leaders to understand our strategy and their role in driving execution throughout the organization
I need my leaders to develop stronger cross-functional empathy to understand the wider impact of their decisions across the entire organization
I need my leaders to challenge old mindsets and engage new ones
I need my leaders to enable faster execution by role modeling behaviors consistent with our strategic priorities
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Program Elements
Going from strategy to execution
The ability to execute is a principal quality of organizations that become and remain great. In this paper, we’ll explore these challenges and the elements organizations need to ensure great execution.
Enterprise business simulations
At the core of the LeaderLab is an enterprise business simulation which serves as a platform to explore the challenges leaders will face in executing their organization’s strategies. In a risk-free, simulated environment, LeaderLab places leaders face-to-face with the challenges of strategy execution, taking on roles as C-level leaders, and practicing running the business. In doing so, they encounter real-world customer problems, business trade-offs, dynamic competition, and unstable conditions, helping them develop an understanding of their leadership style, confront critical business challenges and trade-offs realistic to your business, cut across siloes, and commit to effective leadership sprints.
By having conversations that typically only happen within the C-suite, leaders internalize the thinking behind the strategy, accelerating a process that would otherwise take years.
Leadership development
Great leaders create inclusive communities and empower their team to advance to a higher level of motivation, lifting individuals, teams, and organizational results.
To be a great leader today, one must adapt quickly in a rapidly changing world while maintaining the compassion and humility needed to relate to your teams on a human level.
BTS understands leadership coaching and development better than anyone in our market. With our diverse set of tools and methods, we’ll give your leaders the tools they need to succeed.
Leadership assessments
Real-world experiences drive real-world results.
We believe context matters. Our assessments are about leading your business, not any business, and mirror the dynamics of your business and culture.
We build our assessments with real people in mind and create experiences optimized for engagement, scientific and practical, that create value at all levels of talent and through all stages of their career.
We strive to go beyond the traditional client-vendor relationship to be your total people partner.
Coaching
More than just coaching. Connected. By design.
We believe coaching should be in service of your strategy and connected to your values, leader models, and talent processes. If you want to drive change and ensure that it sticks, you must work with leaders at an individual level and collective level. We do both.
Our digital ecosystem is more than a coaching app. We integrate coaching, assessment, simulation, and learning experiences to transform people and the business. By connecting multiple learning modalities, leaders develop more complex and sophisticated ways of thinking.
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The key to better execution is E=AMC
Watch the video to the right where Dan Parisi, Head of Strategy Execution & Business Acumen, explains what we mean when we say:
Execution = Alignment x Mindset x Capability.
In truth, strategy execution depends on how well the people in your organization are aligned with the strategy, their mindset, and their capability to execute on your specific strategic initiatives. Follow the link below for more detail.
Running the Leader Lab
As part of their talent development strategy, an American dairy organization’s needed to equip its high-potential employees to reach the next level of leadership. Thus, the organization partnered with BTS to design and deliver a customized, interactive, and experiential learning solution: the Leader Lab.
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