Welcome to Solutions House
It's Simply Business... Relax & Learn!
We create fresh approaches to your organizational needs through instructional design, business simulations, and discovery learning applications.
High-Impact Business Results
Acclaimed by the training industry, our products include the Full Throttle suite of business simulations. We also develop innovative custom solutions tailored to the unique needs of companies both large and small.
Based in Tarpon Springs, Florida, Solutions House is deeply experienced in the areas of business acumen, sales training, leadership, organizational development, and more - all for the purpose of unleashing your peoples' expertise and motivation for generating business results.
Welcome to our house! Please make yourself comfortable, and feel free to look around.
Your Home for Innovative Learning Solutions!
We are in the business of providing solutions. Solutions for those looking to effectively and creatively address their organizational development, training, instructional design, communication, and strategic planning needs.
Building Business Relationships
At the heart of any solution is the relationship with our client and the need to provide value to them. If we do not solve a problem, uncover an opportunity, and build a trusted advisor relationship, we have locked ourselves out in the cold.
We started our organization in 2001 to create a home for experienced business consultants with talents, creativity, integrity, and commitment to clients and each other. We also built a place for a much larger network of consultants, designers, advisors, and artisans to drop in for a visit, add value to, and benefit from our business relationships.
Our foundation is sound. Our professionalism and commitment to exceptional client service frame our structure. Our focus on service at a reasonable fee means we did not furnish our home with fancy trappings that we now need to recover in billing or shortsighted decisions.
Full Throttle
Fresh Approach
Full Throttle® business simulation is a fresh new approach to learning business acumen. Most financial simulations reflect industrial age business structures and practices where value is measured solely in terms of a company's financials.
Exploring True Economic Value
Full Throttle builds a new awareness of finance -"the language of business" -and explores the sources of a company's true economic value, which transcend the financial statements. The ultimate message of Full Throttle is a powerful one: a critical engine of shareholder value is the collective knowledge, dedication, and energy of the company's employees, its relationship with its customers and its execution of frictionless processes.
It runs in two simulation sessions, the Controller and CEO programs.
In our Controller program, we begin with a look at the financial and economic operations of a fictitious motorcycle company, Full Throttle Motorcycles. Teams see how financial results are recorded and how suppliers and customers interact with the company to help all succeed as they work through the supply chain. After completing the Controller program, participants are better able to do the following:
- Understand their company's financial statements
- Calculate and interpret key business metrics
- Appreciate the economic mutual interest shared between a company and its suppliers and customers
- Begin to implement ideas to increase sales and reduce costs
Full Throttle Controller utilizes active learning and allows the learner to see the physical flow of dollars in and out of the company before putting numbers to paper. This methodology has proven to increase knowledge and retention. Learners are encouraged to make connections to what they already know.
In the second part of the Full Throttle program, CEO, participants are "promoted" to the level of CEO and are tasked with setting the strategic direction of the company as they manage short-term financial concerns, the demands of the board of directors, and the volatility of the stock market. After completing the CEO program, participants are better able to do the following:
- Appreciate the challenging nature of strategic decision making
- Value the focus winning companies place on true drivers of shareholder value
- See how stock market volatility can be discounted in long-term decision making
The Solutions House team developed Full Throttle Controller and CEO in partnership with the faculty of a Midwestern College of Business, PhD's, CPA's, MBA's, and corporate subject matter experts.
Full Throttle Controller was lauded by HR Executive magazine as a Top Training Product of the year. Contact us today to find out what has the learning community buzzing!
Facts About the Game
Material: Board-based business simulation.
Number of Participants: From eight to thirty-two participants at any one time. Participants are grouped in teams of four or five people. One facilitator for every eight to 32 people.
Participants: Employees at a team leader level and above.
Time Required: Full Throttle is designed in a modular fashion allowing the learning to be scheduled in four-hour increments. Total time required is eight hours.
Facilitator: Facilitators are certified by Solutions House, or Solutions House is available to deliver your programs for you.
Customization: Full Throttle is built with an open architecture to allow for ease of customization.
Games & Simulations
Solving Challenges Creatively
One of the unique strengths of Solutions House is our capability for creating fresh, discovery based simulations that are tied directly and uniquely to your challenge. Our custom games and simulations can capture a remarkable degree of organizational complexity... and translate it into a series of actionable behaviors. The result? At the end of every program, your employees will say "now I know what to do differently... and why!"
Click on the images below to see some examples of our work.
Achieve Organizational Change
Solutions House will engineer a simulated world that looks a lot like your own! Employees will actually experience and practice the new behaviors required to bring about the desired organizational change. Dynamic visuals and disarming "gaming" techniques lower defensiveness and increase engagement.
Learn how we can capture the complex realities of your organization... and channel it into new behaviors for change.
Solutions Maps
Illustrate Your Organizational Change
Solutions Maps use the power of metaphor and narrative in a graphic format. The result? Your organization's strategic initiative - no matter how complex - is rendered with simple and powerful impact.
Click on the images below to see some examples of our work.
Custom Designed and Developed
Solutions Maps are custom-developed around your specific change initiative. Depending upon your objectives, they can also include other "gaming" technologies to increase energy and engagement.
Working in table teams of five to six members, learners work through a series of card-based questions that prompt them to analyze the metaphors, make inferences about the meaning, and connect the messages to their own experience.
Put the power of Solutions Maps to work for your organization.
Our Approach
Design Services at Solutions House
At Solutions House, we design custom training programs, organizational interventions, employee awareness, and stakeholder communication campaigns with a simple point of view: Why would anyone want to remember this...and how can we help them do it?
We build programs with a strong foundation, yet flexible enough to yield to a client's specific needs. We do not use ill-fitting, dusty templates and recycled ideas that worked "once upon a time." While we may dip into our expanding bag of design innovations for proven elements, the design we create is a perfect fit to deliver against the learning objectives of your organization.
With our Design and Develop Build-out process, we construct a flexible, updateable learning system from the ground up. We work shoulder to shoulder with your team in the spirit of collaboration and respect for schedules and other priorities. By measuring your needs carefully in advance, we can shorten development and revision time.
A Three-Step Process
Our Design and Development Build-out process is predicated on three distinct steps.
1. Design: We meet with our clients, gather data, and construct our preliminary program documents.
2. Development: We create first draft materials and receive feedback from the client.
3. Delivery: We conduct pilot training sessions, make needed modifications, and train our client facilitators to deliver the materials.
Renovate Existing Material
We can help you renovate your existing learning and communication material to be more effective and engaging.
About Our Unique Design Philosophy & Style
At Solutions House, we approach each opportunity with the confidence that our collective skills, experiences, and resources can add value. We do have a certain style that comes from many years of experience in adult learning theories, cognitive sciences, and the well-established philosophies of active learning.
Active learning is personal. In effect, learners forge their own approaches to learning, which increases retention and greatly eases implementation. It views education as a process not a memorization of facts.
Benefits of Active Learning
1. When participating, one is naturally attentive.
2. Active involvement forces the learner to construct a response, thus more deeply synthesizing information than mere rote memorization.
3. Figuring out the process rather than just following directions results in a solution unique to the learner - one that is, ultimately, easier to reconstruct.
4. Produces "episodic memory" that is specific to an event and has longer retention.
Successes
Case Studies
We have worked very closely with our clients to solve a wide range of situations. Here are a few specific engagement stories to learn more about what we do.
Breed Works With Solutions House
A story of Solutions House consulting with different levels of a company to help determine and follow-through on its strategic plan.
View PDF | 196 KB
District Sales Management Training
Solutions House partners with a major client to develop a program to help sales managers effectively analyze situations and develop best practices for their districts/regions.
View PDF | 200 KB
Leadership Through Coaching
Solutions House works with a global pharmaceutical company to improve new sales representatives’ performance through engaging senior sales representatives as coaches.
View PDF | 204 KB
Essilor Thinks Differently with Solutions House
A story about how we built a think tank meeting and process to explore new and emerging opportunities for the U.S.-based operations of Essilor.
View PDF | 192 KB
Managing Your Territory with Solutions House
Read how Solutions House partnered with a Fortune 500 company to develop a course and in-class computer simulation to better help sales representatives manage their territories in the spirit of franchise entrepreneurs.
View PDF | 192 KB
Going To College with Solutions House
A term paper on how Solutions House worked with a University to recruit candidates for a scholarship program.
View PDF | 276 KB
Global Communications Simulation
Solutions House built a dynamic web-based simulation for a conference for the global communications professionals of a venerable multi-national corporation.
View PDF | 192 KB
Emotional Intelligence in Sales
A story of a program that Solutions House developed that used the concepts of Emotional Intelligence in the real-world context of consultative selling.
View PDF | 260 KB
About Solutions House
Your Home for Innovative Learning Solutions!
We are in the business of providing solutions. Solutions for those looking to effectively and creatively address their organizational development, training, instructional design, communication and strategic planning needs.
Building Business Relationships
At the heart of any solution is the relationship with our client and the need to provide value to them. If we do not solve a problem, uncover an opportunity and build a trusted advisor relationship, we have locked ourselves out in the cold.
We started our organization in 2001 to create a home for experienced business consultants with talents, creativity, integrity and commitment to clients and each other. We also built a place for a much larger network of consultants, designers, advisors and artisans to drop in for a visit, add value to and gain benefit from our business relationships.
Our foundation is sound, and our professionalism and commitment to exceptional client service frame our structure. Our focus on service at a reasonable fee means we did not furnish our home with fancy trappings that we now need to recover in billing or shortsighted decisions.
It's Simply Business... Relax & Learn!
We create fresh approaches to your organizational needs through instructional design, business simulations, and discovery learning applications.
High-Impact Business Results
Acclaimed by the training industry, our products include the Full Throttle suite of business simulations. We also develop innovative custom solutions tailored to the unique needs of companies both large and small.
Based in Tarpon Springs, Florida, Solutions House is deeply experienced in the areas of business acumen, sales training, leadership, organizational development, and more - all for the purpose of unleashing your peoples' expertise and motivation for generating business results.
Welcome to our house! Please make yourself comfortable, and feel free to look around.
We Want to Hear From You
Address
500 East Tarpon Avenue, Suite 3
Tarpon Springs, Florida 34689-4367
Telephone
(866) 525-2130