Learn by making the decision.
Short, realistic work situations you play on your phone. Make the call, see what it costs, and find out why.
- Vendor negotiation
- Leading a new team
- Presenting to C-level
Free to start · about 15 minutes · no card
Practise the negotiation before it costs you. A$39 a scenario, not a A$1,000 workshop day.
How it works
The situation
A real work problem: the emails, the numbers and the people involved.
Your call
Choose what to say, what to check and what to give up. Nothing tells you the right answer.
The consequence
See what it costs in trust, morale or money. Some costs arrive later.
The debrief
Find out why it played out that way, and keep the field guide.
People learn by doing, not by being told.
Figures from two published reviews of workplace training research (2005 and 2011).
Built from real work
Written from fifteen years of procurement, consulting and leadership, with the ideas behind each decision credited in the field guide.
The situations you actually face: presenting to C-level, negotiating with a vendor, leading people who used to be your peers.
More than multiple choice: dig through documents, work the numbers, and write your own reply. Your answer is read and scored, with a line of feedback.
What testers told us
“These scenarios help even the seasoned employees.”
“Mate, it’s really good.”
“Very fun.”
Make one decision, right here.
“So… do we have to call you boss now?”
What do you say?
Scenarios
Pick one and start. Every scenario comes with a PDF field guide, so you keep the practical lessons after you play. The Leadership and Negotiation packs also include practical templates to use at work. Your first two plays are free: pick any scenario.
The conversations managers put off, all on one operations team: your first week, your worst week, two seniors who have stopped speaking, and an order from above. Includes the Leadership Kit templates.
Last Friday they were your peers. One of them wanted your job. Get through your first week.
A deadline pulled forward, a mistake owned in front of everyone, and a complaint on your boss’s desk.
Two of your best people have stopped speaking. Each has a story, and each story is partly true. Find what's under the fight, and don't pick a side.
Your boss’s boss has promised a client something your team can’t do by Thursday. Tell the truth upwards, stand between them and your team, and commit once it’s decided.
Where the money is decided: renewals, price rises, salaries, tenders and professional services. Includes the Negotiation Kit templates.
Your software vendor wants a steep increase. Search the file for leverage, then negotiate.
A sole-source supplier puts prices up 12% mid-contract. You can't tender and you can't threaten. Map what you've got, then trade it in the right order.
You ran the team for four months and you’re still paid as a coordinator. Build the case, ask for the role rather than a raise, and get it lodged before the budget closes.
Five bids, one budget, and a spreadsheet that has already picked a winner. Price the work you’ll really buy, hold the published weights, and make it survive a complaint.
A$480,000 fixed or A$2,100 a day, and a sponsor who wants it signed by Friday. The biggest risk in the deal is on your own side of the table.
Leading when the team isn’t in one room and the ground keeps moving. Two of five are ready.
A new system goes live on Friday, and the team has to live with it on Monday.
Half your team is never in the room at the same time, and the mistakes all happen at Monday’s handover. Fix the handover, not the headcount.
Thirty-eight hours, and every request says urgent.
Your team keeps saying yes in meetings and then not delivering. Find out what yes means to each person before the launch slips.
The second round of a new way of working, when the novelty has gone.
The interview panel, the case and the pitch upstairs. Each one on its own for now.
A category manager interview: a clinician who thinks you’re slow, a finance director who wants real P&L, and a score sheet you can’t see. Talk each one’s language.
A project management interview: a score sheet you can’t see, and a case about a contractor who’s running late.
The invite says thirty minutes. The CEO has twelve, and the CFO has seen this idea before. Get to a yes you can deliver.
Need a simulation built for your organisation?
We build custom simulations around the situations your people actually face. Deeper than our packs: 30–45 minutes, several stages, written replies and a full debrief.
Already running workshops or a course library? Use the scenarios as the practice between sessions: people try what they learned, see what it costs, and come back with questions.
- Supplier negotiations
- Difficult conversations
- Stakeholder management
- Leadership decisions
- Sales situations
- Conflict
- Influencing
Tell us the situation. We build it with your kind of suppliers, stakeholders and numbers, and check it with you before anyone plays it.
Build a custom simulation →Start today: five ready-made scenarios for five people on one access code, with templates and field guides. Practice that backs up the training they already do. Invoice with your company name and ABN.
Buy now →Two groups, confidential briefs, a facilitator guide and a letter of intent to agree, built on your organisation.
Ask about a workshop →For facilitators
Everything you need to run a negotiation session with a class or a team.
60 minutes. A buyer team and a vendor team at each table, each with a confidential brief on a phone. You release each round with a code word.
Get the facilitator kit →A price increase, a tender panel, a leadership conversation, or one built on your own situation.
Order more →Interview preparation
Got an interview coming up? Add the position description, the employer's website, a link to its latest annual report and your CV. Get a brief on the role, then practise with a panel that asks the questions this job is likely to ask.
- What you addThe position description, the employer's website, the link to the organisation's latest annual report, and your CV.
- Your briefThe role, the organisation and what the panel will look for, including its priorities, results and risks from the annual report, with links to where each fact came from.
- A mock panelQuestions built from the position description, each answer scored 1 to 5, the way a structured panel scores it.
- Your answers, sharpenedCoaching on your own examples. It never writes your answers for you.
Interview preparation is coming soon. The tips are free now.
How a panel scores you, the three to six stories to prepare and how to tell them, reading the room, knowing the industry and its rules, the questions to ask, and a checklist for the night before.
We email you the link and show it here straight away. Never shared or sold. Privacy
SaaS renewal
Your software renewal is up.
The call is in an hour. Search the file for leverage: every real find becomes a card you can play in the meeting. Checks are limited, so choose carefully.
Reflecting three years of continued platform investment. Your account will renew automatically on existing terms unless we hear otherwise.
Your result
Pricing, clauses and total cost
Everything this scenario was built on: reading a renewal clause, putting two quotes on one basis, working out the real three-year cost, and trading term for structure.
Free for your email, with the templates below. Yours to keep and pass on.
Your Negotiation Kit starts here
Challenge someone
They get the same case, and the game tells them at the end whether they beat you.