Leadership Simulation - the original on the market since 1998!
Leadership Simulation: Where leadership becomes visible and tangible.
Our behavior-oriented simulations make leadership quality visible. For better decisions in personnel diagnostics, leadership development and talent management.
What is the Leadership Simulation?
Leadership simulation: Experience leadership behavior realistically and make it measurable
In Strametz’s behavior-oriented leadership and management simulations, managers take on divisional or team responsibility in a fictitious company – with all the consequences of their decisions. By excluding technical expertise, we focus on leadership attitude, communication and decision-making behavior. In contrast to traditional training courses, they experience how their pure leadership behavior affects employees, teams and company results in a realistic way.
The combination of systematic observation and appreciative feedback after each simulation round makes individual leadership quality visible. This not only provides managers with insights into their own behavior, but also concrete development impulses that can be directly transferred to everyday management. Our leadership simulations are the highlight of every development program – and even in diagnostic processes, participants experience them not as a test, but as an enriching experience.
Dynamic scenarios
In a simulation company, managers face realistic everyday management challenges in several rounds.
Aha-experiences
Through the impact feedback from the participants and our experts, we create real key moments and anchor the experience in everyday life.
Measurable leadership quality
By systematically observing behavior based on measurable criteria, we make potential, skills and performance visible.
Why simulation instead of training?
Simulations make the decisive difference for sustainable learning success for managers
| Kriterium | Klassisches Traininig | Simulationen von Strametz |
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| Realitätsnähe | Theoretische Übungen, kurze Szenen | Komplexes, durchgängiges Unternehmensszenario über mit mehreren Runden |
| Entwicklungsfokus | Eindimensional, häufig Fokus auf einzelne Skills | Mehrdimensional, Fokus auf breites Mindset, Skillset und Toolset für Führung |
| Emotionale Aktivierung | Begrenzte Aktivierung, "als ob"-Charakter erkennbar | Hohe Aktivierung, herausfordernd und erlebnisorientiert – echter Druck und spürbare Konsequenzen |
| Beobachtungstiefe | Punktuell | Systematisch über gesamten Zeitraum durch erfahrene Expert/innen |
| Messbarkeit | Oft subjektive Einschätzung | Verobjektivierte Verhaltensanalyse anhand definierter Kriterien (Potenzial, Kompetenz, Leistung) |
| Nachhaltigkeit | Wissen wird vermittelt | Verhalten wird erlebt, reflektiert und verändert - Lernkurve der Teilnehmenden wird bereits im Training sichtbar |
| Transfer | Oft theoretisch | Echte Aha-Momente verankern das Erlebte nachhaltig im Führungsalltag |
A simulation. Infinite possibilities.
Because guidance doesn’t come off the shelf: our modular system for maximum flexibility
Our leadership simulations are not standard training courses – they are experience-oriented development spaces and at the same time an appreciative tool for personnel diagnostics. In several rounds, talented individuals and managers take on responsibility in realistic scenarios, make decisions with consequences and experience how their leadership behavior affects employees, teams and companies.
The combination of dynamic situations, the critical incident methodology and targeted feedback creates an experiential space for participants in which experimentation, reflection and growth are possible. This not only makes leadership quality visible, but also measurable – significant, comprehensible and with clear development impulses.
Thanks to our modular portfolio, we adapt each simulation individually to the target group, objective and format. Whether it’s assessing the position of junior managers, developing project managers or diagnostics for top management: we design tailor-made solutions – from compact potential analyses to development centers lasting several days. Online, hybrid or in person.
Versatile simulations - the most popular formats
From the classic leadership simulation to specialized settings for matrix, projects or transformation.
Over 25 years of experience in leadership development and thousands of simulations have shown us one thing: Leadership is diverse – and needs equally diverse learning and testing environments. With the right simulation, we can make different leadership topics and challenges visible in a targeted manner. We are happy to adapt our popular formats to your individual needs and objectives.
The basis of our portfolio – still the most popular format today
Participants take on management positions in a fictitious company with all management tasks: Agreeing targets, managing conflicts, holding meetings, mastering strategic and operational day-to-day business. Managers experience directly how their behavior affects employees, teams and results.
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- 👥 7-10 participants
- ⏱️ 1-3 days
- 🎯 Junior and experienced managers, high potentials
- 📋 Simulation company Avalon, Champ
- 💡 Added value for companies: Position assessment, skills training, development of leadership personality
Out of the silo and into complex corporate structures
Participants experience the dynamics of a functional-divisional matrix organization: multiple assignments, resource allocation, conflicts of interest. A change of perspective and the complex corporate structure make it possible to experience how cross-team and cross-divisional collaboration can be organized.
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- 👥 11-14 participants
- ⏱️ 1-2.5 days
- 🎯 Junior and experienced managers, high potentials
- 📋 Simulation company Avalon, Champ
- 💡 Added value for companies: Making leadership quality visible and measurable, identifying clear development areas for leadership
Focusing on the big picture and managing resources
Participants take responsibility for the interaction of teams, processes and business goals. By managing complex tasks, they experience how decisions affect results, structures and processes. The focus is less on people skills and more on the holistic management of resources and processes through to strategic alignment.
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- 👥 7-14 participants
- ⏱️ 1-3 days
- 🎯 Management at all levels
- 📋 Simulation company Avalon
- 💡 Added value for companies: Managing complexity, bringing about decisions, organizing collaboration – for better results and sustainable leadership success
Leading effectively through change and shaping the future
“Leadership without transformation remains administration. Transformation without leadership remains chaos.” This format combines two realistic simulation rounds (including the introduction of an AI tool) with compact theoretical impulses. Objective: to enable managers to provide orientation, successfully shape change and secure trust in the long term.
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- 👥 11-13 participants
- ⏱️ 1 day
- 🎯 HR, communications, executives, project leaders, managers and anyone involved in transformation
- 📋 Simulation company InnoMach
- 💡 Added value for companies: Apply management instruments and change tools in dynamic times and develop a toolbox of methods for transformations.
Making the difference in project management
Participants work on projects in a fictitious company and go through the typical phases: Initiation, planning, implementation, completion. In addition to project management methods and tools, the focus is on leadership, communication and conflict resolution in the project context in order to maximize the success of projects.
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- 👥 10-12 participants
- ⏱️ 1-2 days
- 🎯 Junior and experienced project managers
- 📋 Simulation company Avalon
- 💡 Added value for companies: Positioning, development of project management skills, better dovetailing of line and project business, training leadership without disciplinary power
Teams lead without a title
There is always leadership – even without an appointed manager. In a business development task force, participants solve complex tasks together. The dynamic is created through self-organization, interaction and the tension between pressure to achieve results and collaboration. Interdisciplinary skills are at the forefront of reflection.
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- 👥 5-8 participants
- ⏱️ 1-2 days
- 🎯 Specialists and (prospective) experts
- 📋 Simulation company Flytec, Rapido Fix
- 💡 Added value for companies: Training interdisciplinary skills, exerting effective influence as a subject matter expert, managing and shaping effective collaboration
Optimizing teamwork in complex structures
The participants are presented with complex challenges in two teams that can only be solved with optimal team collaboration, potential-oriented role allocation and precise communication. Focus on excellence, role-based trust and optimization reflections are examples of characteristics of real high-performance teams that are brought to life and trained here.
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- 👥 10-16 participants
- ⏱️ 1-2 days
- 🎯 High potentials and (future) high performance teams
- 📋 Simulation company Alpine Rescue
- 💡 Added value for companies: Making team quality in complex structures visible and measurable, sharpening communication and strengthening collaboration
Effective management directly at the point of value creation
Participants take on responsibility in a simulated production environment. They experience typical challenges such as shift changes, deadline pressure and quality requirements. They learn to make clear decisions, involve employees effectively and ensure smooth processes.
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- 👥 7-10 participants
- ⏱️ 2 days
- 🎯 Junior staff in production companies, managers from production, logistics and technology
- 📋 Simulation company Avalon
- 💡 Added value for companies: Clearer management at the production base – for smooth processes, greater efficiency and higher quality
Info webinar: Leadership in the transformation
November 07, 1 p.m.
Change projects rarely fail because of strategy, but because of leadership behavior. The most common stumbling blocks include a lack of communication, a lack of involvement and too little reflection. Traditional training courses often fall short here. After all, leadership cannot be taught – it has to be experienced.
In just 45 minutes, executives, HR and personnel managers learn how our “Leadership in Transformation” simulation enables managers to really shape change – instead of just managing it.
10 reasons to use our simulation
Why no good HR process should be without a Strametz simulation
Leadership quality becomes measurable
Behavioral observation by our experienced experts makes leadership visible, comparable, and can be developed in a targeted manner.
Time and cost efficient
The condensed learning environment enables intensive experiences. Participants experience in just a few hours what would otherwise take months in day-to-day management.
Scientifically based & neurobiologically effective
Active learning, the critical incidents method and the integration of neurobiological findings make learning sustainable.
Excellent customizing
Choose from numerous options and configure your simulation individually - tailored to your company's goals, skills and culture.
Maximum practical relevance
Managers assume responsibility in realistic scenarios and directly experience the consequences of their decisions. No theory training, but real experience that works.
Immediate feedback with an impact
Participants receive direct, appreciative feedback on their behavior. This promotes self-reflection, clarity and measurable development - even during the simulation.
Highest practical transfer
What is experienced in the simulation has a lasting effect: what is learned flows directly into day-to-day management - not an abstract model, but leadership skills in practice.
Individual and team development
Our simulations show how people lead - and how teams function. We make both individual strengths and group dynamic patterns visible.
The original on the market
For over 25 years, Strametz has been a pioneer in behavior-oriented leadership simulation - with over 1,000 simulations and over 30,000 managers.
98 % enthusiasm rate
"That wasn't a training course - it was an experience that really changed me as a manager." We inspire participants with our simulations.
10 reasons you have to experience – why our simulation works
The Strametz simulation is not only theoretically convincing, but can also be experienced in practice. In our video, Michael Kühner uses ten specific aspects to show you why our simulation is one of the most effective tools for modern management development – with a focus on experience, reflection and sustainable transfer.
Creating real added value with simulations
Benefits of our simulation from three perspectives – for management, HR & PE and participants
For management
- ✔Increasein company performance: more effective managers ensure good team performance and higher productivity and thus contribute directly to business success
- ✔Increasedemployee retention: good leadership reduces turnover of top performers and strengthens employer attractiveness in times of skills shortages
- ✔Future-proofleadership culture: systematic identification and development of talent ensures leadership succession and strengthens competitiveness
- ✔ROIthrough sustainable impact: investment in high-quality leadership development pays off through long-term behavioral change and improved leadership quality
- ✔Clearerunderstanding of roles: managers bring clarity to their role and make better decisions for the company’s success
For HR & PE
- ✔Positivereputation: 98% enthusiasm rate of participants is attributed to HR and strengthens the position as a valued business partner
- ✔Efficientprocess design: Holistic solution from a single source relieves HR of the time-consuming task of organizing complex leadership programs in-house
- ✔Informativeanalysis results: Well-founded potential and skills profiles enable targeted, tailor-made development measures
- ✔Innovationand differentiation: state-of-the-art learning methods give you an edge over the competition and inspire demanding target groups
- ✔Measurableeffectiveness: Determining the status quo and a visible learning curve during the simulation ensure quality and verifiability
For participants
- ✔Impressiveaha moments: Intensive self-awareness in realistic leadership situations generates real motivation for change and lasting insights
- ✔Practicaltransfer: Holistic learning with all senses makes what you have learned directly applicable in everyday management – no gray theory
- ✔Individualdevelopment clarity: feedback from multiple perspectives precisely shows your own strengths, potential and areas for growth
- ✔Inspiringlearning experience: Interactive and dynamic methods with an experiential character and appreciative learning support instead of frontal teaching create joy in learning
- ✔Highestefficiency: steep learning curve even during training thanks to modern action learning formats – managers who are tired of training are inspired again
10 best practices & areas of application for simulation
From assessment centers to cultural development – our simulation is the missing piece of the puzzle for effective leadership
As diverse as leadership itself - our simulations in action
Our leadership simulation is much more than a training format – it is a powerful tool for personnel and management development that can be used in all phases of the talent and management life cycle.
Whether in potential analysis, assessment or development centers, team development, cultural work or the evaluation of leadership competencies – our simulations make leadership quality visible, measurable and targeted for development. Companies use simulation both to identify high potentials and to train experienced managers, to anchor leadership guidelines in daily practice and to further develop their leadership culture.
The result: a unique gain in practice and knowledge that has a lasting effect on employees, teams and organizations.
What customers say about our simulation
Valuable experience from management, HR managers and participants in the simulation
"The leadership simulation helped us to objectively assess leadership quality. We were able to make well-founded development decisions and now have a much stronger management team."
"Our high potentials learned more about themselves through the simulation than in all previous training sessions put together. The insights were impressively concrete for everyone involved."
"The variability of the simulation is unique. Strametz has adapted the format precisely to our needs and integrated our management values perfectly."
"I am now aware of how I function as a manager and how I react in unfamiliar situations. Such a magical experience!"
"This is really the best training I've ever experienced!"
"Something happened in my head. Strametz managed to get me thinking properly."
Who trusts us
Experience leadership simulation live!
Experience the Strametz Leadership Simulation as open training – up close, practical and realistic
In 1.5 intensive days, you will take responsibility for a simulated company, make real management decisions and experience directly how your leadership behavior works. Accompanied by experienced observers and individual feedback, you will gain a clear assessment of your leadership skills – and new impetus for your personal development.
Our open leadership simulation is ideal for anyone who wants to get to know a unique training format and really understand their leadership.
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In our open training course, you can get to know our tried-and-tested leadership simulation for yourself
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We are happy to carry out other formats and customized variants in-house as a pilot in your company.
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Managers who want to reflect on their impact and develop their leadership skills in a targeted manner
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Young talents who want to grow confidently into their new role
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HR managers, personnel developers and managing directors who would like to examine the use of simulation in their own company
- Warburg (NRW)
- 2 days
- Day 1: 10:00 – 19:00
- Day 2: 09:00 – 16:00
- You will receive all organizational details after registration
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For managers and participants: 1.100,- EUR seminar price + 180,- EUR conference fee (plus VAT, incl. seminar catering, excl. accommodation and travel)
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For decision-makers who would like to get to know our simulation and use it in their own company, we offer a special rate – please contact us
- Leadership Simulation: February 05-06, 2026
- Leadership in the transformation: February 03, 2026
- Leadership in the transformation: March 05, 2026
- Further dates will be published here soon
Fill out the form now and receive all information about the leadership simulation as an open training course free of charge.
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Your next steps
Would you like to know how leadership and management simulations can be used in your company? Our expert and Managing Director Michael Kühner will be happy to advise you on your individual requirements and objectives without obligation.