The feedback from the associates involved with the Zodiak sessions at Leica has been terrific. We have many very technically savvy people in our team, well skilled to develop and build our next generation products, but we have sometimes struggled to make the broader business context accessible or relevant to their daily work. The Zodiak program has ensured that everyone understood how certain decisions could dramatically change commercial outcomes. Most notably, it was clear from the discussion and questions from the groups during the program that they had grasped the concepts and gone on to make the linkages back to their roles in our business.

We thank you for a wonderful business simulation session that you took our managers through.It definitely has been an enriching experience for all those who went through this session and have appreciated the same.

There is empirical evidence that the new insights and knowledge have made a difference, Participant self-evaluations indicate that financial literacy has increased by at least 25percent as a result of the Zodiak training, After the training, there was a 20 percent increase in the participants’ ability to use basic financial terms and concepts on the job. Almost 45 percent of supervisory participants report that they are using their business acumen knowledge in daily communications with staff and peers.

Thank you for such an encouraging “ZODIAK” session which has helped participants to dwell in the actual working of the business, The Participants have really enjoyed it.

RGMs have used the “Connections” component following Zodiak® to help them identify low-hanging fruit. This has led to profit improvement opportunities ranging between 0.5 percent and 3 percent. Now, it’s up to the RGMs to implement their action plans.

The program was an easy way to help financial novices obtain a baseline knowledge and to help managers make better decisions on behalf of the corporation. “Stereotypically, finance can be rather boring to teach and difficult to place in your daily responsibilities,” he said. “But we found Zodiak® to be an interactive, informative and delightfully nontraditional way to achieve our goals.

Expedia continues to build a strong corporate culture because of its belief in the importance of enhancing business acumen at all levels of the organization and in strengthening the skill of employees to work in project teams.

The program’s interactive design and relative simplicity is what makes it effective. The fact that it’s easy to deploy also is important – as many as 35,000 additional employees might use it eventually. “By using self-facilitated classroom settings, high interactivity and online capabilities, we are able to take advantage of this training resource as often as needed.

It needs to be understood that it is everyone’s role in our business to make money not just the sales people, not senior management or someone else but everyone at every level. Zodiak has helped all our people to really understand that and more importantly what really affects the results and how they can influence and understand the outcomes.

It is always difficult to explain the financial side of any business to non-finance managers. Our experience showed that people gain a far better understanding of a difficult concept if they actually see it and use hands on concrete models, rather than be given a verbal explanation. Zodiak has certainly made it much easier for me to talk to people about financial matters.