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HARVARD BUSINESS PUBLISHING ANNOUNCES LEARNING SIMULATIONS
FOR POPULAR MANAGEMENT TOPICS

Best selling online learning courses now offered as simulations
that prepare managers for real-world situations

BOSTON – May 5, 2008 – Harvard Business Publishing, the premier source for management practices, programs and content, this month will launch four new simulation courses that model real business situations. Simulations deliver world-class content in realistic environments that model actual business situations and give managers first hand experience to sharpen their communication, analytical and decision making skills.

The four simulation topics derive from the award-winning Essential Leader line of leadership and management courses from Harvard Business Publishing.
They are:

• Productive Business Dialog – improve communication effectiveness to produce actionable outcomes
• Managing Difficult Conversations – uncover the real data and reasoning underlying disagreements, and build collaborative conclusions
• Negotiating for Results – prepare for and conduct effective negotiations that find common ground for opportunities and value creation
• Leading Teams with Emotional Intelligence – drive high performance by recognizing, regulating and improving the emotional intelligence of teams

“Research shows how useful simulations are for preparing managers to handle situations, because they experience the consequences of their own decisions,” said Peter McAteer, managing director and vice president of Harvard Business Publishing’s corporate learning division. “The feedback our programs provide, drawn from the work of experts in the field of business management, is immediate and geared toward helping those managers make better decisions while on the job.”

Managers using Simulations enter an immersive learning environment to learn how to prepare for real-world situations that require them to think on their feet to get winning results. Similar to an actual conversation, the learner chooses from alternative paths that produce different outcomes for each situation. The learner drives the conversation, makes choices at decision points, faces consequences, and receives immediate feedback.

Each Simulation course features an onscreen Guide who provides direction, support, and feedback on demand. The Simulations include videos, tools, quizzes, scenarios and articles from Harvard Business Review, as well as other top sources. Action plans give guidance for applying concepts on the job. Self-assessments enable users to reflect on lessons learned. As with all courses from Harvard Business Publishing, the flexible design allows Simulation features to be woven into corporate leadership development programs to support both self-directed and group action learning.

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