Project MMS (Meeting Management Simulation)

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Introduction

During meeting management training, not all students are able to play the role of the leader. Only 3 or 4 or them can do that.
That’s why it was imagined to give all the students the possibility to play the role of the leader thanks to a computer simulation.

• The simulations present a purely artificial situation that doesn’t show all that can happen in real life. However, they emphasized the main features, the main behaviours that, as for them, are in limited numbers.
• We have imagined to resort to computer simulation because non virtual simulation can neither vary the situations a lot nor lead the participants to vary their behaviour in a group. For example, very often the leader keeps the floor.
• Computer simulation for instance offers additional assets compare to role playing :
  · On one hand, there’s several participants are not required to conduct a meeting.
  · On the other hand, the group of students can be larger than in non virtual simulation an each participant can be leader.
  · Observers can give their opinion about the meeting management and go back to the key moments of the meeting.
  · The meeting is recorded on a computer and the software will analyse the leader’s behavioural tendency (shy, autoritarian, direct...)
  · Thanks to the computer, it will be possible to identify his/her hesitation, stress, quick decisions, fear of another participant.
  · The simulation can be done as often as needed.