Voices of HR department

“The MARGA board game was used as part of our first-time onboarding program for our new commercial trainees. The seminar conveyed the functionality of a company and especially the fundamentals of accounting in a comprehensive  and practical manner and thus made an important contribution to the new training program of our management trainees. The feedback from the participants concerning the onboarding program as well as the market-leading business simulation MARGA was thoroughly positive.”

"The MARGA Online Competition is an integral part of our Junior Manager Program - our trainee program for executive talents. MARGA makes entrepreneurial thinking tangible without real risks. The high dedication of our trainees has paid off once more: they are in the live final today."

"In addition to professional training, the MARGA Online Competition gives us the opportunity to promote virtual teamwork between our international locations in a targeted manner. Through high self-motivation and efficient teamwork, this year our two teams have reached the finals – we are thrilled!"

"With MARGA, we have found an on-the-job training that conveys economic and managerial coherences to our engineers in a particularly practical way. Our team is thrilled and I am convinced that I have chosen a sustainable training method."

‘As a student, I already got to know MARGA at my University.  Back then the simulation was still offline and shortly after, I witnessed the digital change into the online version of the simulation. Now for the first time I was in the position to accompany our students to the live final at the Schloss Gracht castle. According to my present experience as head of marketing and finding myself somewhere between economy, development and education at the ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts), I highly value the transformative advantage of this learning tool between knowledge and action. It easily develops entrepreneurial skills.’

‘Where else can high potentials and young professionals practice to act as real entrepreneurs? We play MARGA with mixed teams in which we combine current with former trainees. Like this we achieve interdisciplinary and self organized groups. It’s amazing how much our teams learned about strategy, business management and market development in such a short time. They will certainly benefit from this experience during their day-to-day business. Above all, they both learned and laughed a lot – what a great combination.’

'Business studies are a substantial supplement for the overall skills of our young professionals. The conveyance of know how by means of a gaming environment is particularly attractive. Our experience shows us that both studies and a competitive environment are a good combination. After the fourth year of participating at the MARGA Online Competition, this year one of our Vinnolit teams came in first - what a great performance!'

"Congratulations to the winning team. It makes business acumen, innovation and teamwork to come top in this demanding challenge. It is so important to Nokia´s profitable growth and future success that we find motivating ways to drive competitive spirit, help people develop and nurture a culture of high performance and integrity. I hope everyone has enjoyed and learnt from participation in this business simulation and can apply their new-found skills for the success of Nokia.“ 

"The MARGA business simulation is a fixed component of the Veolia Talent Program. As ‘temporary managers‘, our employees are given the possibility to try out and to further develop their ability of entrepreneurial thinking and acting. Thereby they easily acquire essential knowledge on complex economic coherences and during the seminar it is also easy to point out the relations to the own company. During the simulations you can always sense the rising team spirit amongst the participants. It quickly becomes clear that the overall business success is dependent on an efficient teamwork. And right from the beginning the motivation is high to succeed as a team! 
In short: Both the learning success and the fun are vast at the three-day Inhouse seminar. The MARGA business simulation fits perfectly into the corporate philosophy of our personnel development.“

"The special advantage of the MARGA business simulation is the combination of networking and experienced learning. Our participants are able to work with colleagues within a team, thus being faced with classic challenges of international team work, and they get to know the range of entrepreneurial acting in an explicitly hands-on manner. Additionally tutorial notes enable an individual deepening of learning contents, e.g. for those without prior management experience.“

"A good team distinguishes itself by the ability to bundle their specific skills and by implementing these in a sustainable manner for their target tracking. Our MARGA team made their way through the six-month competition and finally emerged as winners. That speaks for them!“

"What makes MARGA so unique from our point of view is that the actual learning kind of happens en passant. Our employees were enthused for a rather ‘dull subject’ by means of the business simulation and thereby easily learned the contents. The festive final at the ‘Schloss Gracht’ castle was a great reward for all the effort and commitment.“ 

"20 Years ago I, myself participated in the MARGA Competition and today I understand why our team was not able to qualify for the next round - that is what I call sustainable learning. Today our OBI trainees participate in the MARGA Online Competition.“

"As a three day in-class business simulation MARGA is a fixed part of our talent programme, which prepares future experts and managers for their responsible tasks. The business simulation establishes understanding for strategic management decisions and clarifies the interrelations of different controlling tools. At MARGA the company success is measured by similar target values as at our company HOCHTIEF. Thus the participants are able to establish a relationship to their own company. The special learning atmosphere as well as the professional support and execution arouse enthusiasm among our participants again and again. Last but not least the MARGA seminar enhances our internal network and also provides fun.”

"'Learning by doing' is the message of MARGA: The experience as a virtual management board immensely motivates the participants. Thus they best get to know entrepreneurial thinking and acting.”

"I remember my participation in MARGA 20 years ago as a very effective learning phase during the first years after my studies. For my professional life especially the concentration of the correlations of a company with their most deciding parameters was very helpful. This is why I have registered a group of scholars to MARGA, where they are confronted with a tough competition during the current final exhaminations. I am convinced that my scholars experience a functional and personal advancement by the participation.“