| 📝 What is the Simulation Good-Better-Best (GBB) Template?This simulation follows a good-better-best model in a three-round learning experience. It is designed for at least an hour of in-technology learning, with opportunities for debrief and discussion. The scoring model reflects the good-better-best approach, where each activity offers three valid response options, varying in correctness. The experience supports three feedback metrics and a mix of activity types to enhance engagement and improve the overall learner experience. |
🎯 When Might I Want to Use the Simulation GBB Template?
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DEMO PROJECTS: See What's Possible
✨ Explore What’s Possible with the Simulation Good-Better-Best Template. Check out two fully built demo projects—complete with access links—to see how this template can be customized for your learners. Dive in and try them out for yourself!
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Simulation GBB: Emotional Intelligence for Sr. Leaders |
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High Level Design (HLD) + Learner Experience Flow
This template is perfect for immersive, decision-based learning where learners navigate real-world complexities and build judgment through a Good-Better-Best scoring model. The experience unfolds across three rounds, each progressively increasing in complexity and emotional nuance, with dynamic activities and reflective moments to reinforce learning and promote growth.
➤ Design Rationale for the Template
Using principles of decision-based learning and situational judgment, this simulation template is designed to have learners navigate complex scenarios without a single "correct" answer. The template leverages:
Branching conversations to model interpersonal nuance and consequences
Tradeoffs and list builders to simulate prioritization and competing demands
Curveball moments to introduce uncertainty, requiring learners to adapt their plans or respond on the spot to high-pressure situations
It’s grounded in experiential learning theory, with elements of action, reflection, and feedback to deepen learning. The good-better-best model emphasizes growth over perfection, reducing performance anxiety and encouraging judgment-based reasoning.
💡 Common use cases for the Simulation GBB Template:
Leadership development
Cross-functional collaboration
Client or stakeholder engagement
Ethical decision-making
Change management scenarios
➤ Learning Strategy Behind This Template
Ideal for leadership, skill-building, and behavior change training, this Simulation GBB Template experience unfolds across three rounds and emphasizes emotional nuance, prioritization, and real-world application.
Welcome + Resource Setup:
Sets context and introduces key characters and challenges to immerse the learner immediately.Three-Round Simulation (Good-Better-Best Format):
Each round increases in complexity, simulating evolving workplace dynamics and pressure. Learners make choices, navigate curveballs, and respond to tradeoffs—reinforcing decision-making in realistic contexts.Dynamic Activity Types:
Includes branching conversations, tradeoffs, list builders, curveballs, and video scenarios to simulate a wide range of leadership challenges and emotional responses.Embedded Reflections:
Learners pause throughout the experience to reflect on priorities, justify their thinking, and adapt strategies—mirroring real-world leadership growth moments. Check the FAQ for specifics on reflection points.Scoring & Feedback Model:
Each activity is mapped to a key feedback metric (e.g., Strategic Thinking, Empathy, Decision Quality), with choices scored as Good, Better, or Best. This supports growth, not perfection, and offers targeted insights on performance.Post-Simulation Reflection & Feedback:
A final synthesis activity prompts learners to internalize lessons and identify future behavior shifts.
Together, these elements create a robust, immersive, and growth-oriented simulation where learners explore complex challenges and decision-making in action.
💡 Use ReX to Streamline Your Project Discovery
Explore the Simulation GBB prerequisite questions to quickly align on learner needs, storyline clarity, and scoring metrics—so you can build with confidence from the start!
Click the arrow to review the discovery questions that will set your project up for success.
Click the arrow to review the discovery questions that will set your project up for success.
Prerequisites Overview
Before building a simulation in this template, authors complete three prerequisite sections that serve as the foundation for learner relevance, storyline clarity, and scoring alignment. These prereqs ensure the experience is grounded in real-world context, tightly aligned to learning outcomes, and fully leverages the good-better-best scoring model.
The Learner
Authors define the learner’s world to make the simulation relevant and realistic.
Key Questions Answered:
Who is your target learner?
What industry do they work in?
What challenges do they face?
What is the organizational culture they operate in?
What skills, knowledge, or behaviors should they develop?
Outputs:
A clear learner persona and context
Selected mindset shifts the experience will promote
Identified learner tradeoffs (e.g., speed vs. quality, individual vs. team outcomes) that will be woven into scenarios
Why it matters: This step grounds the simulation in the learner’s reality, enabling believable tradeoffs
Learning Objectives, Skills, & Metrics
This prereq sets the learning foundation that drives all activity design and feedback.
What’s Determined:
Identified learning objectives
Defined skills or competencies to be developed
Selected feedback metrics that will be tracked across the simulation (e.g., Strategic Thinking, Stakeholder Alignment)
Why it matters: Each activity is scored using a good-better-best model and mapped to one of these metrics, so this upfront clarity is essential to meaningful feedback and outcome measurement.
Simulation Storyline
Authors build a storyline that will evolve across three rounds of decision-making.
Key Questions Answered:
What role will the learner play in the simulation?
What’s their background and experience level in that role?
What kind of company and industry is the story set in?
What is the central challenge the learner will face?
Outputs:
Defined learner role (which may differ from their real-life role to increase perspective-taking)
The storyline challenge and how it unfolds in rounds 2 and 3
Key characters and their perspectives
Why it matters: This ensures the narrative stays consistent, immersive, and purposeful—building on the learner profile and reinforcing the skills and metrics defined earlier.
Authors must maintain alignment between the learner profile, learning objectives, and the storyline. Even if the learner steps into a different role in the simulation, the experience must still drive the development of the intended skills and mindset shifts.
➤ Flow and Activity Structure
Each round represents a stage in a larger, unfolding storyline. Activities are carefully chosen to build on each other, with every round including a moment of reflection to reinforce feedback loops and help learners internalize key takeaways.
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Round 1 – Orientation and Initial Strategy
| Round 2 – Rising Complexity and External Pressure
| Round 3 – Final Decisions Under Pressure
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💡 Can I Add or Modify Activities Within the Rounds?
Yes! While each round includes a core set of recommended activities, you’re welcome to add more to enhance the experience. Just be sure that the new activities you choose correspond with the correct round—this ensures they align with the round’s purpose, storyline progression, and level of complexity.
Check the FAQ for a list of approved activity types by round.
➤ Scoring Approach
This template uses a Good-Better-Best scoring model to promote growth, judgment-based reasoning, and real-world decision-making. Rather than focusing on binary right-or-wrong choices, this model reflects the complexity of workplace scenarios where multiple responses may be valid—but not equally effective.
Key benefits of this scoring approach:
Reinforces growth mindset by recognizing a range of acceptable decisions
Promotes critical thinking and personal accountability
Encourages reflection through nuanced, behavior-based feedback
Aligns with Studio scoring tools for seamless authoring and metric tracking
Each activity includes (exported in this order to SimGate Studio):
Good = Acceptable, safe choice
Better = Thoughtful, context-aware choice
Best = Strategic, well-rounded, and aligned with broader outcomes
Each activity is mapped to a feedback metric (e.g., Strategic Thinking, Stakeholder Alignment, Execution Effectiveness), selected during pre-work. This helps learners track their performance across key skill areas and see where to focus their development.
💡 Note! After exporting your project to Studio, be sure to complete your scoring model by adding scores and linking your metric variables to the learner feedback pages. You can also enhance your project with additional page templates that match your exported theme. To streamline this process, the ReX Simulation GBB Shared Library includes ready-made templates you can easily insert into your wireflow.
📚 Looking for More Ways to Use This Template Effectively?
Leadership readiness (e.g., practice emotionally intelligent decision-making before a promotion or new role)
Cross-functional collaboration practice (e.g., build empathy and alignment across diverse teams with no clear “right” answer)
Ethical gray zone practice (e.g., help employees navigate nuanced decisions like data use, AI fairness, or compliance dilemmas)
Client relationship tuning (e.g., simulate tough moments with external partners—missed deadlines, miscommunications, scope creep)
Innovation mindset training (e.g., simulate ambiguous challenges where learners must balance risk-taking with business priorities)
FAQ
How does an author know if they are completing the prompts correctly?
How does an author know if they are completing the prompts correctly?
About Prerequisite Prompts:
Prerequisite prompts are designed to gather accurate and necessary information from the author to support the development of the learning experience. While the content entered in these prompts does not directly appear in the final learning experience, it plays a critical role in shaping and informing the content.Ensuring Accuracy and Alignment:
Prerequisite prompts often include overviews or checklists to help authors align their input with the intended learning goals. Authors are encouraged to review and edit their responses to ensure ReX has the correct context to create an effective learning experience.Exploring Options:
Authors can always adjust their inputs and regenerate the steps to see different outputs based on revised choices. This flexibility allows for iterative improvements and tailored results.
What activity types can I add or change within the rounds in ReX (before export to Studio)?
What activity types can I add or change within the rounds in ReX (before export to Studio)?
Add additional activities to enhance the experience. Just be sure that the new activities you choose correspond with the correct round (to ensure storyline alignment, intended purpose and complexity level of the round)
Here are the additional activity types available by round:
Round 1:
Round 1 List Builder
Round 1 Video Branching Response
Round 2:
Round 2 Conversation
Round 2 Video Branching Response
Round 3:
Round 3 Course of Action
Round 3 Conversation
What are the reflection points for the Learner within the learning experience?
What are the reflection points for the Learner within the learning experience?
There are several opportunities for learner reflection built into the Learning Experience:
Round 1 includes a reflection during the Course of Action (COA) activity. This reflection isn’t created in ReX—it is include in the COA activity in Studio (sliders) and can be edited after import.
Also in Round 1, there’s an unscored tradeoff reflection activity. It presents a scenario with competing demands and asks the learner to reflect on what they might do differently.
In Round 2, a decision rationale prompt appears after the Scenario activity, encouraging the learner to reflect on their reasoning.
In Round 3, there is an end-of-round reflection, which will appear after importing to Studio.
You can always add decision rationale to any activity in ReX or additional reflection points after importing into Studio, depending on your learning goals.
