vantagepoint The game that sets your entrepreneurial spirit free EX-COMBATANTS USE VANTAGEPOINT FOR BUSINESS SKILLS TRAINING IN SOUTH AFRICA Tshepanang (Trust Amongst Each Other) is a business initiative of the Alexandra Military Veterans Association... Read more.

Vantagepoint teaches players fundamental business principles whilst having some serious fun!

Vantagepoint simulates the setting up and running of a trading company, where sales opportunities and cash flow must be maximised to enable growth.

Vantagepoint is an easy-to-learn business game that enables you to experience the 'real world' of running your own business without the risk of losing real cash!

Vantagepoint is an innovative teaching tool that can be customised to convey a specific 'learning message', whether this be for a particular industry sector, a business value system, or to target a particular age group.

Vantagepoint - a game where everything that happens has already happened to someone else!
 

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What can Vantagepoint do for you or your organization?

Individuals and SMEs: Committed to successful entrepreneurship

• You had a great idea about making money - as a kid, as a student, even whilst slogging away at your job. Unfortunately, most of the time, that's just where it stays - an idea. Vantagepoint lets you feel the thrill of having your own business and deciding whether it's really for you!
• So you've completed a business course but you have no practical experience. Now you need to apply that training in the real world - scary stuff. Vantagepoint is just what's needed to get you using your hard-earned knowledge where and when it's needed.
• You have no business training but need to learn business practice fast! Vantagepoint will give you pointers immediately and guide you to the information you need. Our Business Information Guide (BIG) is a handy resource for you to use as reference too!
   

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Corporates: Regain the energy and creativity of entrepreneurship

• You want your staff to understand your business challenges, and encourage them to express their ideas. Vantagepoint can be customised to reflect your business dynamics. 
• You need to improve communication and team work amongst your staff, and foster understanding of interdependencies in business. Vantagepoint is ideal, as a great team-building tool. 
• You need to train staff on specific aspects and principles of your business that are being neglected, and cultivate shared values. Playing Vantagepoint in teams highlights synergies and conflict, and explores ethics and values through Moral Dilemmas. 
• You need to teach staff about the impact of good and bad customer service on your business success. Vantagepoint's Customer Services version shows how sales opportunities can be won or lost depending on how the customer is treated.
   

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A bit of history…

• Vantagepoint was borne out of both good and bad business experiences that the inventors have actually lived through. Every single eventuality included in the game has really happened!! We know what it's like to be millionaires, and to lose it all… 
• The first players to test Vantagepoint were employees of the Arts and Culture Helpdesk NGO in Newtown, Johannesburg in June 2005 - and the staff just played, and played, and played…
• Since then, Vantagepoint has been played from Soweto to Pretoria, from Amsterdam to Cape Town and from school children to business executives. And they all had fun! 
• Every test play of the game has resulted in 
  • Players learning something new about business; 
  • Players learning something about themselves and their fellow players; 
  • Referrals for playing sessions and companies needing to learn or teach more about business; 
  • Referrals for companies needing a training tool to teach a specific aspect about business.
     

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