Practise the meeting before it matters.
Improvement is a habit long before it is a result. Simprovements gives a team a safe, low-stakes place to build that habit - a simulated organisation where the meetings feel real but the stakes don’t - so the routine is already in hand by the time it returns to its own floor.
A meeting simulation a team can learn by playing.
Simprovements is an interactive meeting simulation developed by SAM, with five scenarios to choose between: a restaurant, a zoo, a grocery store, a health center and an art museum. In a playful setting, the group is guided through a simulated, action-oriented meeting, and leaves with the feeling that “we can do this in our team too”.
Stepping away from your own organisation puts everybody on neutral ground and sparks the imagination of the group. Experience from initiating countless improvement groups and meetings has taught us that the first step can be the hardest, especially if you want everyone’s motivation on board. Simprovements is a catalyst for action, built on people’s internal motivation to improve their own work.
You may recognise some of these signals.
Simprovements tends to earn its place when the intent to improve is there but the routine isn’t. A few signs we hear often:
You want to start an improvement group, but don’t know how to gain everybody’s interest and engagement.
Team meetings need a refresh into something more efficient and energetic.
You’re building a company-wide structure for deviation management, and need teams to want it.
Four movements, from a borrowed world to your own.
A session moves a team from an unfamiliar but easy-to-read setting into the exact routine it will use back at work. Durations and group sizes are tailored to each team.
Set the scene.
The team steps into a familiar place - a restaurant, a zoo, a grocery store, a health center or an art museum - so everyone can take part on equal footing, without needing to know the real domain.
Run the simulated meetings.
Round by round, the team holds the short, action-oriented improvement meeting it would hold on its own floor: same rhythm, same questions, lower stakes.
Spot deviations, practise the loop.
As the simulation throws up deviations, the team practises noticing them, naming them and agreeing the next step: the improvement loop, repeated until it feels natural.
Translate the habit to your floor.
Finally the team maps what it just practised onto its real work, so the routine leaves the room with them rather than staying in the game.
A habit that stays after the game is packed away.
A shared improvement-meeting habit the team can run without us in the room.
A common language for spotting and naming deviations.
A first step that works for transformations big or small.
The services this tool brings to life.
Simprovements is rarely used on its own. It carries the principles of these services into a team’s daily work: practised first, then applied.
See a team practise it for themselves.
Tell us about the team and where improvement keeps stalling, and we’ll bring Simprovements into the room: alongside your people, on your floor.