Unlike some training simulations, performance clinics are tailored and conducted face-to-face. They are tailored to your objectives, your systems, business processes, policies, tools, and your business problems. Thus, they are tightly focused on usable skills, relevant to your organization, agile, and cost-competitive with conventional training.

Other types of training simulations address generic skills, can be very expensive to develop (for example computer-based simulations), and may not be relevant to your organization. Other training simulations fall into several categories (see Research and Resources for more):

• Computer-based simulations (flight trainers, video games; see Brandon-Hall.com for a buyer's guide)
• Business simulations (spreadsheet-based marketing, operations, or business strategy games in which the user controls the inputs to mathematical models to learn about strategic factors)
• Interactive software tutorials (computer-based tutorials, demos, or wizards which direct the trainee to enter data and make choices)
• Online problem- or scenario-based simulations (soft
  skills, troubleshooting, business process, emergency response)
  

Ratcliff Consultants focuses on custom training simulations that are cost-effective for 25 or more people.

How can we create performance clinics cost-effectively?

First, we leverage existing examples of best practices.

Second, we extract rules of thumb, tacit knowledge, and mental models using efficient knowledge engineering techniques.

See Our Process for more.