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Stay updated on your developments through Actee News. We regularly add new content about our games, theories and many other things related to developments and current events.

Company
Tidligere e-conomic & Visma Profiler Skyder Millioner I Dansk EdTech Platform

Den danske edtech virksomhed, Actee, der har 40.000 brugere i 22 lande inden for online simuleringsspil til ledelsesudvikling og forandringsledelse, får nu tilført frisk kapital øremærket yderligere international ekspansion. Actee har bl.a. de tidligere e-conomic profiler Mogens Elsberg og Jacob Wandt i ejerkredsen og de får nu selskab i ejerkredsen af endnu en tidligere e-conomic aktionær Anders Bjørnsbo.

01 January, 0001
Company
New Normal @ Actee

By Ida Bjørnsbo & Leif Sørensen The New Normal calls for a New Actee! New website with cool changes and alterations! Read about them here.

01 January, 0001
Company
The new way to change the world…

If you want to tab into the Actee vision of changing the world using game-based learning, things have changed quite a bit in the last year. We believe most changes have been for the better for the learning outcome!

15 April, 2021
Theory
The Power of Experimental Learning - Building Diverse & Inclusive Organizations

One of the realizations Corona has illuminated during the past months of lockdown is that traditional classroom training is outdated and useless in the virtual world. An example of an area with significantly ineffective workplace training is diversity and inclusion.

23 March, 2021
Other
The Gender Equality Index Domains

During the past year, there has been a high focus on sexism, sexual harassment and most other inequalities between the genders at the workplace. It is slowly becoming an obvious flaw in our society and measures must be taken to support the ongoing pursuit of equality.

11 March, 2021
Company
The Session Creator Gets a Polish!

This weekend, we will be changing the layout of our session creator. This will make it even easier to plan sessions and make sure that you can get access to all the tools you would like to use in your facilitations. The session creator will still function as a step guide and all of it will be recognizable to you if you have used the old version.

12 February, 2021
Company
Onboarding has Never been Easier!

Our most recent user experience improvement is a guest-login function that allows players to log on to your Actee subscription and play games without registering a user first. This functionality has been implemented for a while and we are getting great feedback on this change.

12 February, 2021
Company Theory
Actee Book Release - The Cycle Of Change

This book, Cycle of Change, is the result of thoroughly investigated practice-based knowledge in combination with a scalable game simulator that has become a leading learning bank for online training sessions in organizational change and other themes related to Workplace learning content.

14 January, 2021
Company
Work On The Second Actee Book Has Begun!

We are eager to get some fresh minds to co-create the next Actee book with us, could that be you?

14 January, 2021
Other
Benefits of Gender Equality in Uncertain Times

Advancing gender equality is certainly desirable but may have been set aside during the pandemic. However, putting gender equality to one side right now is likely to put you at a real disadvantage when the pandemic begins to recede.

14 January, 2021
Company
The Right Way to Give Negative Feedback to Your Manager

A four-step framework for giving critical feedback to a superior.

14 January, 2021
Theory
Students Are More Likely To Seek Answers Through Technology Than Us In The Workforce

In this month’s whitepaper, we will focus on data from the Actee game ‘Destination CRM (short)’ which is a shortened version of the original game. This is a change game with more than 5.000 participants and is about implementing a new customer relationship management (CRM) system which will affect everyone greatly in the game.

01 January, 0001
Other
Use Data to Meet DE&I Goals

4 key insights on how to best make use of diversity data.

01 January, 0001
Company
Improve Learning Experience With The Enhanced Data Module

Here are the latest updates to the feedback tool in the Data Module.

01 January, 0001
Other
The Soft Skills of Great Digital Organizations

The Six Most Prominent Factors in Creating an Adaptable Culture.

01 January, 0001
Other
The Importance in Times of Remote Work, of Linking Workforce Learning With Performance and Culture

By connecting performance management and learning, employers can improve productivity – even when staff are working remotely.

01 January, 0001
Theory
A Kotter-Esque View on the Pandemic

We collected data through our platform and are ready to share some COVID results with you. We set out to investigate how implementing changes have changed, from before to during COVID-19. We examined our most played CRM game and dove into the 579 choices made before the pandemic vs. 579 choices made during.

01 January, 0001
Games
Personal AI - A Game Engine

Every time you play a game simulation from one of our learning concepts – data is collected to consolidate your personal leadership profile. This is done to engage the learner and to provide a fundament to make better learning decisions build on data from the context of the organization.

01 January, 0001
Company
Danish Championship In Leadership E-Games

The World Leadership e-Games Championship is a competition that Actee created in 2019. Each year we create a game based on current dilemmas and encourage the whole world to play! You enter the competition from our homepage and then choose which country you will be representing. In the Grand Finale of the competition, the top participant in each country will be competing in a new game, for the title: ‘World Champion in Online Leadership’ and a full years subscription to Actee’s Large Level Learning.

01 January, 0001
Company
Gamification - An Approach to Learning

In this interview, Ian Sturgess questions Leif Sørensen about the benefits of gamification, the route to acquiring new skills and knowledge, and how to set the right perspective on simulations.

01 January, 0001
Games
*DANISH ONLY* Nyt forskningsbaseret dilemmaspil skal give bedre arbejdsforhold for vidensarbejdere

As you may already know, Actee is currently engaged in a research project about the future of work for knowledge workers. The games that we develop in this project are made in Danish but they will be available in English very soon! The first game is already available in English and is called 'Agile Thriving'. The following press release is about the second game released and is currently only in Danish.

01 January, 0001
Company
Join Our Friendly Ensemble Of Talented Actee’vists!

At Actee, we ensure the most excellent, entertaining, and educational learning tools for our clients. We assure this through our fruitful collaboration with our partners. We have two main considerations when joining forces with new partners and throughout the entire alliance...

01 January, 0001
Other
Crazy Times Calls For Crazy Untested Reactions

Being the driver of a startup doing business with more than 2.000 global consultants, I knew this (pandemic) was not going to be an easy period and I also understood it would not be over shortly. What was unclear was how to overcome this crisis and how best to navigate Actee through it.

01 January, 0001
Company
A User-Friendly Update

Find out what new and exciting updates Actee has made.

01 January, 0001
Company
Actee Digital Collaboration Festival

One of our ways has been to give free crash courses and game builder workshops. But we don’t think this is enough. Let´s together create a Digital Collaboration Festival #acteedfc in the next 4 weeks. Include every interesting subject and tool you know of to inspire our hemisphere of consultancy, school and learning. Let’s inspire and support each other.

01 January, 0001
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Online Meeting Tools & How To Get started

In COVID-19 virus times we experience our consultant partners and clients are being asked to move all face to face programs into the digital space. This calls for tech skills combined with engaging online tools. We have some cool consulting firms as partners who know how to combine Actee games and online tools to create workshops as 100% digital facilitation.

01 January, 0001
Other
"Dear Consultant “Change Or Die”!

“If you as a consultant do not upskill and make technology a central part of your job, I believe you will die!”

01 January, 0001
Games
Do You Have A Great Idea For A Game?

Have you ever been in a learning situation as a learner or as a consultant experiencing the content presented to be boring? Or you don’t see the relevance and objectives for the learning situation you are in…. Have you ever been bored and not knowing why you are participating in the workshop? Probably you have because according to Towards Maturity: learning-benchmark 2019 the biggest reason for resistance to learning Is related to content.

01 January, 0001
Games
The Influence of Games for Organizational Development Reaches a Broader Audience!

The article is based on the statements of Tom Just (CEO of Agilent Technologies) who has been using the Actee games and tools to help the company prepare for a large-scale change process. Tom Just points to the benefits of working with a simulated scenario that is similar to the actual change process that any given company is facing. He also points to the benefits of letting participants get to know the most common archetypes of personalities that are present in a change process.

01 January, 0001
Games
A New Actee Game Has Come To Port!

So, if you want to be acquainted with agile methods or simply expand your knowledge on this topic – then you should head right over to the ActeeChange concept and try this awesome new game!

01 January, 0001
Games
Dutch Consultant Offers Customised Games

One of our skilled consultants, Dirk Jan BolderHeij, has been using the Actee games for several years and is now ready to help Dutch- and international clients, in creating their customized games. Dirk has a good track record for helping varying clients create a game that fits their specific needs in change processes.

01 January, 0001
Company
Actee Has A New Champion!

The four finalists played a brand-new game that is also concerned with agile methods, but also the potential pitfalls relating to organizations becoming agile. The competition was fierce, and our four skilled finalists were all doing a great job in putting the game background into context.

01 January, 0001
Other
Leaders Learning With Games As Executive Training

Interview: Klaus Haltrup is an experienced change consultant and owner of the change management consultancy Gordios. He has been a partner of Actee, facilitating and training with the learning simulations, for a range of years.

01 January, 0001
Other
Value For Money In Learning & Development…?

Is L&D is a Waste of Money?

01 January, 0001
Company
News Stuff…… “IMPORTANT”

Hey, Actee´vist here is the summer update on new stuff we have been working on and launched in the Actee Universe. Most important info first…

01 January, 0001
Other
Welcome To Center For Creative Leadership

We are proud to announce that the Center for Creative Leadership (Global) has become an Actee partner. CCL has been using the Actee games for a long time but has now officially become a certified partner. Here you will find some additional information on CCL and also a way to contact CCl if you need help with a change process or leadership training.

01 January, 0001
Games
Increase The Well-Being & Usage Of Agile Methods With A New Game

New digital simulation game intended to make organizations and workplaces sharper on aspects regarding well-being and working conditions during internal transition processes.

01 January, 0001
Company
COOL NEW THINGS TO EASE THE CREATION OF A LEARNING SESSION

New Updates!!

01 January, 0001
Company
Award To Actee From Germany

We won an Award in Germany which we are very proud of!

01 January, 0001
Other
Masters Of Enabling Learning At Leadership Conferences

We recently spoke to Liselotte, a partner in HUMAN UNIVERZ, who shared her experiences on integrating engaging simulations in leadership conferences. When it comes to learning and development, many people see that the agenda is often filled with inspiring speakers and presentations. However, at the end of the day, we are still exhausted and inattentive because we have been on the receiving end of information and impressions coming from the speaker’s chair. As a response to this form of one-way communication, HUMAN UNIVERZ has been successful in engaging the leaders to actively participate in the conference with the help of the Actee change simulation.

01 January, 0001
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First Danish Championship in Online Leadership

Last year we arranged a collaboration with Stepstone inviting their wide network of leaders and career-seekers to play a range of short games in our learning game simulator. This resulted in a great interest with over 2000 people, who joined in on the game challenge and played some of the short games, we picked out for them. For example, 500 people did their best to help Maria well through a change (in the ActeeChange game: “Maria – Personal Change”).

01 January, 0001
Other
Learning Pace vs. Speed Of Change

I've been diving into some of the tendencies within our industry. Here are some of my key takeaways. Thanks to Towards Maturity for the inspiration.

01 January, 0001
Other
Shipping Companies Let Talents Play Games To Achieve Better Leadership

Under the headline “Shipping companies let talents play games to achieve better leadership”, the article depicts how Danish Shipping giant, DFDS, are using the games of Actee as part of the leadership training program. DFDS started to use Actee’s games a couple of years ago. Through the games’ simulated real-life business challenges and decision-making processes that you will face as a leader. Along the way, they will meet the consequences of their choice and how they impact the fictional stakeholders and business.

01 January, 0001
Other
Simulating A Mergers & Acquisition Process

How Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos uses Actee games as part of their growth strategy.

01 January, 0001
Company
Dyslexia is a driving force for success with online games for businesses

This is the story of Leif Sørensen, CEO of Actee, and his business journey to establish, develop and expand the company driven by visions for new ways of corporate learning through online simulation games. This intriguing story about a man with a dogged determination turning an immediate drawback of dyslexia into visions and action was run in the Danish national newspaper; Berlingske.

01 January, 0001
Company
Important Updates

We have made some changes to fine-tune the functionalities, flow and system of the hub to support the new business model and way of doing business. Change is by nature disruptive of our customs. But hopefully, as soon as you are familiar with the changes, you will find that it eases your work using the games and tools for your business.

01 January, 0001
Company
New Price Model: No More Licenses

The new year brings new energy and the opportunity to clear the slate to make some improving changes. In Actee, we have made some changes to our price model, which we have launched on the first day of the brand-new year of 2019.

01 January, 0001
Theory
Learning From The Best

We’ve had the privilege to talk to Rick Maurer, change expert and bestselling author, about his experience and theory about leading in transition and reducing resistance towards change. By courtesy of Rick Maurer, a little handful of his pearls of wisdom is captured in 5 short videos to all curious learners.

01 January, 0001
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Actee Masterclass

Do you use our games and tools on a regular basis? Are you looking to take your Actee-skills to the expert level and get to know all the finesses and features of the Actee hub? Then you should join the masterclass on January 29th.

01 January, 0001
Other
Value-based Leadership: Game Tool as Bridge Maker

In organizations, a strategy for employee alignment is to define a set of “official” company values to follow in the whole organization, both to support the internal work environment and as a branding issue in customer interactions. The main problem, especially for the top management in larger companies, but also in specific interactions with customers, is to create an awareness of these values that leads to their employee embracement and incorporation in everyday work situations and customer interactions.

01 January, 0001
Theory
Stop Placing All Your Learning Eggs In The Online Basket

We in the L&D industry have been putting too much emphasis on online learning, mainly because it solves the two biggest barriers that companies face when designing learning processes: time and money. But it has made us forget some very central elements. Based on both my empirical and theoretical knowledge I have put together a model with four elements, which we need to take into consideration when it comes to creating successful learning.

01 January, 0001
Company
Winner Of The ’Most Ambitious Game’ Award

We entered the International Business Learning Games Competition in Lisbon held by The Business Excellence Institute and won the ‘Most Ambitious Game’ award for our ActeeLeadership concept.

01 January, 0001
Games
Engaging Paths To Workplace Learning

Is it okay to have fun while learning something serious? It’s not only okay – it’s also the most efficient way of learning. Because, when we have fun and when we are interested, we are also motivated. And motivation is one of the key factors to learning.

01 January, 0001
Other
Simulate Till You Succeed - In Corporate M&A

“The normal failure rate of at least 50% in corporate M&A is unacceptable (…) so why do so many highly educated, bright, and well-paid people spend so much time on corporate M&A when the outcome would be the same if they just flipped a coin?”

01 January, 0001
Company
Founder Of E-conomic Invests In Startup

E-conomic stifter Jacob Wandt investerer millioner i cloud-platform til simuleringsspil for ledelsesudvikling. Wandt har investeret i onlineplatformen Actee, der har 20.000 aktive brugere i 12 lande og bruges af selskaber som Danske Bank, Vestas, COWI. Han mener, at denne slags software rummer et betydeligt potentiale.

01 January, 0001
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Local Company In Roskilde Sells Learning Games Worldwide

Lokal Roskilde-virksomhed sælger læringsspil til hele verden! Virksomheden Actee i Roskilde udvikler simuleringsspil til organisationsudvikling og forandringsledelse. Selvom hovedkontoret i Roskilde kun tæller otte medarbejdere, så anvendes Actee's læringsspil i 22 lande og har over 22.000 slutbrugere.

01 January, 0001
Company
Press Kit

Logos and pictures for press use.

01 January, 0001
Other
The Darth Vader Of Learning

These days the learning industry is transforming rapidly. “The corporate training market, which is over $130 billion in size, is about to be disrupted. Companies are starting to move away from their Learning Management Systems (LMS), buy all sorts of new tools for digital learning, and rebuild a whole new infrastructure to help employees learn.” Forbes 2018

01 January, 0001
Other
Online Simulation Games Are Central For Change Management At DFDS

DFDS har kæmpet med, hvordan de kunne skabe endnu mere motivation, viden og kompetencer hos både ledere og medarbejdere, så de i relation til de konstante forandringer kunne gøre en markant større forskel i at drive forandringsprocesserne ude hos medarbejderne.

01 January, 0001
Company
How Does Actee Protect Your Data?

A new law protecting customer data called GDPR is becoming effective at the end of May. Here at Actee, our customers are more important than anything else. We believe that the more that everyone’s data are protected the better. So naturally, we have a Data Protection Officer. It is Martin Kristian Hansen, who is also CTO. If this interview with him about GDPR does not answer your questions, please feel free to contact him.

01 January, 0001
Other
Visit From 48 Dutch Leaders

A delegation of 48 leaders from Dutch municipalities came to visit Actee’s head office in Roskilde to see how learning games could be an important tool in improving public service.

01 January, 0001
Other
Socially Innovative Knowledge Work

Actee is part of a big research project about knowledge workers, technology and the future labour market. The original press release was published on the Innovationsfondens webpage. Researchers from the University of Roskilde (Denmark) are, in cooperation with business and interest organizations, about to investigate new developments within the job market relating to knowledge work - while experimenting with new shapes of organization.

01 January, 0001
Theory
The Kiss Model

I have a great passion for, what I have chosen to call, the Kiss Model. Think back on your first kiss, probably as a teenager, do you remember that? If you do, then maybe you will also remember having conversations with friends about your first kiss – even before receiving it. You might also remember, that it was only when you received your first kiss that you knew what it was, how it felt and were able to start practising it.

01 January, 0001
Company
All Of Us Interested In Change Management…

… and all of us interested in improving our organizational development processes, in training our leaders to become better at dealing with transformation, and in creating better and more efficient workplace learning. Join for an inspiring networking event, Copenhagen Area, with a celebration launch of the partnership between Implement and Actee aiming to offer training for successful organizational changes.

01 January, 0001
Company
ActeeChange Multiplayer

Some of you who have tried to play computer games will know the term multiplayer. And in our ActeeChange games, it is actually the same thing. As players you can sit in the same room – or in different countries, using your own device, but being part of the same game interacting with each other. You can play in groups of 2 – 6 people.

01 January, 0001
Other
Navigating In Everyday Complexity

Our organizations are increasingly complex, which demands of employees – especially leaders – to be able to navigate in complexity. Therefore, it makes sense for everyone to work on their complexity competencies.

01 January, 0001
Other
Learning To Change From Change

The ultimate way for an organization of dealing with change and transition is to be flexible for constant development – which also means that learning is at the centre of everything, we do.

01 January, 0001
Other
Actee Partnership With Implement

In Actee we have launched our new, improved workplace learning platform, which opens to new opportunities for our users. As part of this strategy, we have partnered with Implement Consulting Group, who will manage a large part of our certification courses on the Scandinavian market. We will celebrate this partnership with a launch party on March 12th.

01 January, 0001
Company
The Bittersweet Taste Of My Own Medicine

These days I’m constantly reminded why I do what I do. In my company Actee, we have worked to develop our new digital workplace learning platform for a year now – and now we are in the air. It has been turbulent, and we are just at the beginning of this exciting journey. Fortunately, this kind of journey is such an instructive experience that puts our work in a meaningful perspective.

01 January, 0001
Other
Top Score To Change-Simulation By Danske Bank’s Leaders

Danske Bank’s leaders give Change-simulation top score after annual leadership workshop working with change management and leadership development.

01 January, 0001
Other
Christmas Greeting 2017

It is a pleasure being with us at the moment. 2017 has been a fantastic year, which has primarily revolved around developing our new platform. And pretty soon we are ready to share it with all of you. We promise to tell you much more about this at the beginning of the new year.

01 January, 0001
Other
Skip The Facilitation Hype - Focus On Transfer Instead

You recently took a course from which you brought back new knowledge, or you successfully facilitated a workshop. Despite all that, you get the feeling that these learnings might drown in the routines of everyday life.

01 January, 0001
Other
Cooperation With The Public Sector

We work together with several municipalities and public institutions with the goal of improving the communication between professionals and citizens, strengthening the cooperation between employees, leadership training, facilitation of meetings and conflict management.

01 January, 0001
Company
Trends & Talks

Want inspiration on Digital Transformation? Sign up for our event Trends & Talks on the 15th of June.

01 January, 0001
Company
CPH Change Conference & Award 2017

We are proud to announce that the second CPH Change Conference takes off on the 4th of May 2017 CPH Change Conference is for all of us passionate about creating and leading change. It is a unique chance to share valuable experiences and knowledge about the field, and learn more about change management and organizational changes.

01 January, 0001
Company
How To Play ActeeChange

ActeeChange is a tool that helps you transform resistance towards change into ownership for a change.

01 January, 0001
Other
Innovate Your Sales Strategy

Use our Co-Creation scenario to be innovative. Do you experience higher expectations for the products and solutions you deliver and does the customer have a better overview and shops between suppliers? It could point towards a necessity to change the way you think and work with sales and relational sales processes in order to obtain a better, and more long-lasting cooperation with customers.

01 January, 0001
Company
Free Webinar On The 27th of September

CEO at Actee, Leif Sørensen, will give you a guided tour through our new simulator, explain the new change tool ‘ChangeMeter’ and tell you about the ‘Colleague’-case.

01 January, 0001
Company
The Onboarding Process

It is a huge change process when a company needs to let many people go. The leaders left behind must handle a challenge that can be divided into three phases. This ‘onboarding process deserves as much attention as the ‘onboarding process.

01 January, 0001
Games
New Dilemma Game

We have designed a dilemma game for Nets with the purpose of them re-launching their three cornerstone company values.

01 January, 0001
Company
Do You Want A Disruptive New Year’s Resolution?

New Year’s resolutions are about change, often about improving yourself. But this year I have chosen some resolutions that I think will make a difference for me as a leader.

01 January, 0001