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Simulation Training
Definition
An experiential learning method that replicates real-world environments, systems, or scenarios for practice and skill development. Simulations provide safe environments to practice high-stakes skills, make mistakes, and receive feedback without real-world consequences.
Where it fits in the SDI system
Turn a new process, system, role, or expectation into relevant practice, communication, job support, and evidence people can use in the work.
SDI practitioner lens
From definition to decision
Simulation training creates a controlled environment for rehearsing complex, high-risk, expensive, or infrequent performance. Fidelity should be matched to the decision and feedback required; visual realism is valuable only when it improves transfer.
01 / Decision it should inform
Use simulation when learners need repeated practice and consequence-rich feedback that cannot be provided safely or consistently in live operations.
02 / What to watch for
Building an impressive environment before defining the target decisions, scoring logic, and debrief can produce spectacle without learning evidence.
Related ideas, client examples, and next steps
Carry the change from intent into day-to-day performance.
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