Free micro simulations for workplace skills training

Free micro simulations for workplace skills training

Most workplace training asks you to watch, read, or listen. Micro simulations ask you to decide. Each one drops you into a realistic business scenario, for example, a tense meeting, an organisation-wide change initiative, or a leadership dilemma, putting the outcome in your hands. You’ll be asked to make quick decisions, taking around two minutes, and you’ll be given immediate personalised feedback on how your choices stack up against proven frameworks.

They are designed for anyone who wants to test their thinking in a risk-free environment: L&D professionals exploring new learning interventions, managers looking to sharpen a specific skill, or anyone curious about how they would handle a high-stakes workplace moment. Micro simulations prioritise learning by doing. That means you won’t be given slides or modules. It’s a quick scenario requiring you to make choices, analysing what they reveal.

How it works

Each micro simulation follows a common format. You are briefed on a scenario, then face three decision points where you choose from several options. Some decisions are multiple choice, others ask you to rank or prioritise. Once you have finished, you receive a competency rating and a personalised profile that breaks down your strengths and areas for growth, with explanations of why each option works or doesn't.

No account is needed; they run in your browser on any device, and they are completely free.

Our micro simulations

Conflict resolution: promise vs. capacity

Sales has promised a four-week delivery without checking with Production, who needs eight. The client is restless, internal trust is fraying, and tensions are about to boil over in the meeting you are chairing. This micro simulation puts you in the mediator's chair.

You will practise opening a tense meeting without assigning blame, moving the room from entrenched positions to collaborative problem-solving, and preventing the same fight from recurring. Interest-based negotiation sits at the centre of the feedback, alongside the Ladder of Inference.

Play the conflict resolution micro business simulation

AI governance: change management

A fast-growing entertainment streaming company has an AI problem. Teams have adopted tools on their own with no standards, no oversight, and no paper trail, and the legal and reputational exposure is mounting. You have been brought in to lead a new AI governance office and make it stick.

You will choose which stakeholders to engage first, navigate a one-to-one with a vocal opponent who fears governance will slow his team down, and decide what to tackle first when compliance gaps, resistance, costs, and executive impatience all compete for your attention. Stakeholder mapping and the trust cycle anchor the feedback.

Play the AI governance micro business simulation

Coaching: the silent team member

Sam, a senior analyst who used to be one of your strongest contributors, has gone quiet. The camera stays off in stand-ups, two deadlines have slipped, and there are fragments on the side: a stretched team after a re-org, a recommendation publicly dismissed in a client review, and a methodology disagreement with a collaborator. Your one-to-one is tomorrow.

You will sequence the threads you would pick up across the coming weeks, hold the moment when Sam opens up and everything comes out at once, and choose where to focus your support over the four weeks that follow. The trust cycle anchors the feedback, alongside the principle that rapport must come before intervention.

Play the silent team member micro business simulation

Business acumen: pricing under pressure

A regional conflict has closed a key shipping lane overnight. Freight rates have tripled, landed costs are 15% higher on average, and one of your component suppliers has suspended shipments for three months. Your nearest competitor has announced a 12% price rise, a discount rival is holding flat, and the board want a position by Friday.

You will sequence your first 48 hours, set the pricing response to the cost shock, and hold a difficult meeting with a key trade account that wants a discount you cannot afford to give. Cost-shock response and value-based pricing anchor the feedback.

Play the pricing under pressure micro business simulation

More on the way

We are adding new micro simulations across leadership, team performance, and commercial decision making. Check back often, or follow us on LinkedIn to see them as they go live.

Go deeper

These micro simulations are designed to give you a taste of what scenario-based learning feels like in practice. The full simulation suite at Business Simulations goes much further: longer, more immersive, and more challenging experiences with richer data, evolving team dynamics, and facilitator-led debriefs that turn individual insight into lasting learning across your organisation. If you like what you see here, explore the full library or get in touch to book a demo.