CALA Homes
Case Study
Graduates, Learning & Development
stretch business knowledge + provokes strategic approach + plan on a bigger scale + challenges their effectiveness
Situation
Having experienced ROCKET at a taster session, CALA’s Learning and Development team quickly realised how playing ROCKET with both their new graduate intake and those about to be placed after their two year induction would quickly help them integrate in to the business.
Cat Allison (Learning & Development)
“I recognised that our graduates would benefit from a platform that equips, enables and empowers better business decisions. With a method and approach that ensures better retention of knowledge, skills and commercial awareness; ROCKET meets these business needs. ”
Task
To help a team of people with specialist skills but little or no commercial experience understand some of the wider challenges that businesses face. For example the effect of working in silos, lack of understanding and appreciation of other business functions.
Cat Allison (Learning & Development)
“I was looking for a tool that encourages and provokes a strategic approach and more awareness of common business challenges. To get this team to plan on a bigger scale, communicate and be aware of how decisions impact the business on an individual, team level as well as at Board and Director level.”
Action
In playing ROCKET the team is challenged to take an ailing business from doing OK to doing great! Over four levels players take on roles of core business functions and, with time for reflection in between, strategise, plan and implement their changes.
James (Land Graduate)
(Playing ROCKET has)…”taken us from just having a shouting match to actually setting tasks and (almost!) sticking to them. This made me realise how hard it is to balance a group of people”.
Result
The benefits to CALA have been threefold:
Cat Allison (Learning & Development)
i). Enabling them the opportunity to learn in a different environment instantly
ii). Rocket provoked a broader understanding of how to run a successful business
iii). Rocket challenges the effectiveness of individuals and teams that can be related to any business context, providing invaluable learning.”