Board game-based business simulations for corporate management, strategy and finance. 
Business Learning & Performance Solutions™ 

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Business Games are entertaining like Monopoly and effective like learning on the job. 

The 5th Mind learning experience - Edutainmet at it´s best!

Business Games for different

topics & industries.

Your own Business Game.

Tailor Made. Fits better.

The setting of our Business Games

In our business games, 2 to 5 people sit around a table with a game board and form a company in your industry. 2-5 companies play against each other on a limited market and learn and understand business administration, finance and strategy in the truest sense of the word. After each round of the game, a profit and loss account, a balance sheet, a cash flow statement and the key figures are calculated. The goal is to improve this in the next game round. More is learned from one round to the next, and the next game period is filled with more complex content. At the end of our seminars, the participants understand what it means to manage a company successfully and also know how they can contribute to earnings in their current situation.

The overriding goal is always optimisation, i.e. increasing sales and reducing costs of the business result. The participants learn about business contexts and the successful management of the company in a playful way. Topics such as balance sheet, profit and loss account, cash flow or key figures lose their horror and are suddenly perceived as exciting and applicable knowledge. Through their activities, the participants are intensely involved in what is happening and recognise the connections between cause and effect much faster. The impact of every management action is felt immediately. Our experience shows: only what is quickly learned is gladly learned. 

All our courses and programmes contain hard business facts but also include methodically planned entertainment values. We call it Edutainment, which stands for Educational entertainment. Therefore, we have developed over 90 unique board game-based business simulations. With our practical and experience-oriented learning method, we visualise complex economic relationships through a board game: with maximum learning efficiency in the shortest possible time.

Simplicity. Transparency. Comprehensibility. That´s how to deliver a unique learning experience.

Dr. Martin von Arland, Serial Entrepreneur & Founder 5th Mind
5th Mind customers are among the strongest and most successful companies in EU-Mainland and on the Island. Our teamwork focuses on clearly measurable benefits for your company. The following companies trust in 5th Mind solutions:
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 Gaining the best result through...

  • ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT.
    The game involves the participants intensively in the action. The topics are experienced and “grasped” in the truest sense of the word through the board game.
  • MULTI-SENSORY LEARNING THROUGH A MIX OF METHODS.
    Board games can be captured haptically ("tangible"). The participants learn process sequences "playfully". Staged situations create experiences (“retention performance”). Conscious examples and associations create visual learning (“easier to learn”). Learning from and with one another in the group promotes a shared understanding and anchors group performance. ("Peer Learning")
  • LEARNING HAS TO BE FUN.
    People laugh in the seminar! The participants do not experience the seminar content as "dry" material but rather associate the process with a positive learning experience.
  • TRANSPARENT CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS. 
    The effects and results of any action are felt immediately. The participants thus immediately recognise the connections between cause and effect.
  • PERSONAL BENEFIT.
    Participants experience how they can specifically increase the company's success (KPIs).
Learning Business by doing business. 
Join the World of 5th Mind.

Contact us: boardgames@5thmind.co.uk
or call us: +43 1 545 68 41

We look forward to meeting you!

Opinions about our courses

“I’m still wondering today how you enabled me to learn about business with your technique and style. 
You quickly and fundamentally changed my relationship with operational key performance indicators. Until now, it was previously characterised by fear of contact. I would never have thought that a balanced balance sheet could make me so happy and that I could deal with this matter in such a relaxed way ;-). Thank you very much for that!“...
"Experiencing 5th Mind is like opening a book that you expect to contain only small print and then realising page by page that it contains a lot of pictures!"
"The concept of 5th Mind manages to convey the topic in a catchy and exciting way, even for absolute non-merchants. The participants play and have fun. The content stays in your head by itself."

Brigitte Eichhammer, Head of HR
Pfleiderer Neumarkt GmbH
“5th Mind seminars cannot be described in words. Try it and be amazed at how interesting this apparently boring content can be… just do it. “
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