Welcome to SkillGym, the most advanced training system available for active leadership development, dedicated to developing your skills in business and leadership conversations.

SkillGym was designed with one concept in mind: Conversations should not be considered as just a vehicle because they take roughly 80% of your time as a manager.  Conversations, great conversations are the GOAL!

You were selected as part of a small group from your organization to test SkillGym.

Before you begin your journey, we would like to provide you with an overview of what SkillGym is about and how, with consistent practice, it can help you and your colleagues make the best of leadership conversations.

Let’s start from the very beginning: Why training in conversation matters and why SkillGym is the best option available. Watch this 4-minute video to get started:

We want you to try out SkillGym on your own.

You will be enrolled in a practice Bootcamp that will provide you access to play freely with several available scenarios.
In order to optimize your experience, we suggest using our platform in Chrome. Please review the SkillGym system requirements to maximize your experience.

Following are the step-by-step instructions:

1) In the near future, you will receive an activation email from SkillGym confirming that your Bootcamp has been opened along with the instructions to access the platform.

2) Once you register, a second email will be sent to you with additional onboarding information on how to use SkillGym as a valuable tool to improve your soft skills. We recommend watching the video tutorials in full. They can be accessed from the homepage and are intended to help you better understand how SkillGym works. The same set of videos can always be accessed from the Help Desk section.

3) The day after these initial two emails, the platform will invite you to schedule a virtual conversation, a Digital Role Play session, with one of the characters from the four available scenarios dealing with different critical conversations (negotiating an objective, delegating a task, checking priorities and giving feedback).

4) The invitation will take you to an online doodle-style calendar where you can select your preferred date/time slot for scheduling the Digital Role Play session. The system will record your preference and send you a calendar invitation and reminders.

5) In addition to the scheduled appointments, you are invited to access the platform anytime to try out all four of the available scenarios mentioned above. The trial is intended to let you test the process and outcomes.

Now that you have a general overview of SkillGym and what your role in this trial will be, you may want to spend another few minutes on this page to learn more about how SkillGym Works.

SkillGym is comprised of four main components. Let’s explore them one by one, starting with immersive practice.

According to the best trainers in the world, this is the most important part of the equation.

Did you know that our brain does not distinguish between reality and fiction? Neuroscience has confirmed that immersive, real-time practice makes you change your habits and thus also your daily behaviors?

Through the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.), the interaction in this Gym is particularly immersive and authentic because the characters are ‘alive’ and react in a natural way throughout the course of the conversation, just like a real conversation.

SkillGym simulates real leadership conversations by placing the trainee at the center of a real (but simulated) conversation, in which the other party has a well-profiled attitude based on specific psychological types.

The conversation’s objectives are challenging and the counterpart’s implicit needs are not easy to bring out.

Each choice made by the trainee involves a twist in the behavior of the character who gradually gets to know the trainee and adapts his answers in congruence with his personality and the course of the conversation.

The result is that in less than 20 minutes, natural behaviors emerge that can be addressed during training to learn how to manage this type of complexity before facing it in real life.

In life, we don’t have the privilege of knowing what others think of us after the conversation has ended.

To find out, in a safe place, where we could have done better and why it didn’t go as we thought.

SkillGym offers us this privilege!

For 2 minutes immediately following the conversation and thanks to the A.I. Emotional Feedback, trainees can hear the character talking about them with precise references to the conversation that has just ended.

Nobody in real life has the courage to give us such unfiltered feedback. Here’s how A.I. helps us improve and develop real experience.

Other techniques are not able to replicate this outcome particularly on a scale needed to activate the automatic behaviors necessary to generate experience-based performance.

Imagine being able to:

1) Measure the effectiveness of your behavior;

2) Understand how much Self-Awareness you have and what you underestimated or overestimated;

3) Understand at what aspects you performed poorly;

4) Measure your Competencies as applied during the conversation;

SkillGym’s A.I. generates all of this automatically at the end of each simulated conversation to be used in the Analytics module, which is an integral part of the training platform.

Can you imagine if you could review the conversations you had in real life?

What if you could have the magic of augmented reality helping you understand the meaning conveyed by the other party as well as grasp their unbiased reactions?

Imagine if you could also read the hidden meaning of their body language.

What if you could have commentary on all of your behaviors and an astute recommendation on how to improve on each behavior?

We are talking about you being able to review your behaviors in a protected environment in which you can analyze each individual sentence of your dialogue, understand its impact and receive recommendations for improvement.

Conversations are where you will spend 80% of your time.

These conversations are the way to guide, inspire, support and listen to others.

Roughly 90% of everyday leadership conversations can be categorized into one of the following eight types:

This program focuses directly on these types of conversations!