AI-enhanced Coaching
Performance coaching
Live, multiplayer, and built for scale.
CinQ embeds real‑time coaching into a high‑context, AI‑enabled simulation, aligning decisions and driving performance.
Speed, clarity, and coordination across interdependent roles, incomplete information, and shifting conditions.
Real-time coaching for high-pressure team performance
CinQ treats teams as the unit of learning, not just individuals checking boxes.
This goes beyond simple post-event feedback: coaching happens live, using a built-in interface that gives facilitators live visibility of team behaviors, decisions, and skill gaps using:
Real-time behavioral capture.
An advanced pedagogical scaffolding (Tuckman, Bloom, Learning Zones).
A built-in 360° scorecard, aligned with Lencioni’s team model.
Peer-to-peer debriefing tools for reflective practice and feedback ownership.
built on research, activated through execution
CinQ’s coaching model is grounded in proven frameworks that explain how real teams operate in complex, high‑speed, AI‑enabled environments. These insights shape what we coach, how we measure, and where performance grows.
AI-era performance dynamics
Virtual worlds, real leaders | IBM & Seriosity
Game‑based environments mirror modern execution conditions: ambiguity, interdependence, distributed teams, and fast decisions. This research showed how leaders emerge through behavior, not hierarchy.
CinQ translates this into a live simulation where execution, coordination, and adaptability define success.
real-time leadership execution
Leadership model | Deborah Ancona, MIT Sloan
Effective teams shift between four leadership domains: visioning, sensemaking, relating, and inventing. Performance depends on navigating these domains dynamically, in context.
Each CinQ mission integrates coaching prompts mapped to these dimensions, delivered live as teams act.
from tension to shared performance
Team performance models | Tuckman & Lencioni
Teams must navigate tension, misalignment, and interpersonal dynamics to reach high performance. Trust, conflict, commitment, and accountability are not theoretical, they emerge through experience.
CinQ missions trigger these moments deliberately so they can be observed, coached, and developed in real time.
real-time coaching embedded in every session
CinQ coaches shape performance live, using integrated tools that surface behavior, guide teams in motion, and drive actionable growth. Coaching happens in the moment, through structured intervention, not after the fact.
Observe team behavior live
Gameplay data reveals decisions, coordination, and adaptability as they unfold.
Prompt reflection and re-alignment
In‑game prompts keep teams on track under shifting conditions.
Map performance to capabilities
Our scorecard converts behavior into clear measures of collaboration, decision‑making, and execution.
Drive data‑powered debriefs
Live metrics expose patterns and fuel targeted next‑step coaching.
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Apathy (low skill, low challenge): Training that avoids challenge leads to stagnation and minimal skill development.
Boredom (high skill, low challenge): Traditional training emphasizes passive knowledge delivery and recall, with little focus on real skill development.
Anxiety (low skill, high challenge): CinQ surfaces capability gaps through real execution demands—where challenge meets interdependence.
Flow (high skill, high challenge): CinQ builds decision-making, coordination, and adaptability in live, AI-integrated conditions.
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Critical path: From average skill and low challenge, to high skill and high challenge.
Impetant (lower skill half of the quadrant): Low-challenge environments limit behavioral growth and coordination.](/images/charts/critical-flow-sm.svg)
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[Sections]
Apathy (low skill, low challenge): Training that avoids challenge leads to stagnation and minimal skill development.
Boredom (high skill, low challenge): Traditional training emphasizes passive knowledge delivery and recall, with little focus on real skill development.
Anxiety (low skill, high challenge): CinQ surfaces capability gaps through real execution demands—where challenge meets interdependence.
Flow (high skill, high challenge): CinQ builds decision-making, coordination, and adaptability in live, AI-integrated conditions.
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Critical path: From average skill and low challenge, to high skill and high challenge.
Impetant (lower skill half of the quadrant): Low-challenge environments limit behavioral growth and coordination.](/images/charts/critical-flow.svg)
The coach’s role
CinQ coaches operate inside the simulation as active performance partners. They guide teams through complexity in real time, helping them coordinate, adjust, and execute more effectively as conditions shift. Using live behavioral signals, coaches:
Identify when teams are ready for greater challenge
Support clarity and alignment under complexity
Translate friction into forward capability development
Coaching happens where the work happens, turning dynamic team behavior into measurable improvement.
the experts guiding your teams
CinQ coaches are performance partners experienced in leadership, decision-making, and team operations in complex environments.
They bring deep expertise in human-AI collaboration, real-time team dynamics, and capability development, working inside the simulation to activate execution, not just observe it.
A mission-aligned coaching system
CinQ coaching is designed, not improvised: every mission is structured with embedded coaching triggers, mapped to key decision points, coordination challenges, and real-world execution dynamics.
Each simulation chapter creates space for coaches to activate learning and performance through:
Defined scenarios that reflect real team complexity
Targeted outcomes linked to behavioral capabilities
Embedded coaching opportunities tied to live decision-making
This system is detailed in the “CinQ coaches pedagogical workbook”, which supports certified coaches in driving clarity, iteration, and measurable growth.
| in-game challenge / real-life situation | learning outcome | coaching focus |
|---|---|---|
| Navigating uncertainty with incomplete mission data | Strategic decision-making under ambiguity | How does the team align when not everyone agrees? |
| AI teammate offers conflicting advice | Human–AI teaming and trust calibration | Do players challenge, trust, or ignore the AI? |
| Role bottleneck under time pressure | Cross-functional coordination and adaptive leadership | Who steps up, who freezes, who redirects? |
| Diverging objectives across team roles | Shared goals and collaboration across constraints | How do teams re-synchronize priorities? |
| Mission failure due to miscommunication | Team accountability and communication clarity | Where did the signal get lost? What patterns emerged? |
This means every in-game moment is: coachable, aligned with business capabilities, and scored against observable behaviors.
Why this works
CinQ doesn’t teach theory, it activates performance: each simulation creates the conditions that reveal real team behavior, trigger live coaching, and deliver measurable insight.
Here is how CinQ shifts coaching from passive summary to embedded, system-driven performance feedback:
| coaching element | traditional training | CinQ simulation |
|---|---|---|
| Feedback timing | Post-session summary | In-the-moment, observable |
| Behavioral insight | Survey or quiz | Actual decisions, team-wide impact |
| Coaching depth | Generic or surface-level | Role-specific, context-sensitive |
| Peer learning | Informal or absent | Embedded in team reflection moments |
| AI involvement | None or scripted prompts | Active AI teammate + system insights |
Team coaching that captures how performance really happens
CinQ measures how teams coordinate, decide, and adapt, together, during live missions.
The scorecard surfaces real team behavior across core execution dimensions:
Coordination under time constraints
Decision-making quality and leadership tradeoffs
Communication clarity across roles
Adaptability to AI input and unpredictable conditions
Trust, initiative, and shared accountability
It delivers a behavioral performance snapshot that is actionable, at team-level, and built for capability growth.