Gamification in Business | Best employee engagement platforms | Corporate Gamification Solutions

You are a smart employer who wants the best for your employees as well as your business so you found a gamification solution ( Does gamification really work? Find out ) and are getting ready to roll it out. How do you do it?  Just sending an email to your employees with a link to a gamification portal is not the best way to go about it. In this blog, we will highlight how to make a gamification roll out exciting! Start with why gamification is so awesome There must be a reason that you are rolling out gamification at your workplace. Some examples include – lack of constructive feedback, lack of motivation and generational shift in the workforce. Create messages around this so that gamification is the star. Now, highlighting a problem is not a good idea. Just use it to create relatability. For example, Tired of negative feedback? Time to flaunt your strengths and get noticed! Gamification coming soon. Be super clear about the rules of play Any gamification solution that ...

Gamification  in business  is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts. It is a set of activities and processes to solve problems by using or applying the characteristics of game elements.I have seen some amazing performance transformations and engagement levels in the journey, change in water cooler conversations from idle gossip to winning points and badges, child prodding his mother to perform better so that she could bring in home a master blaster badge, one employee even changed his mind about quitting. Having said that, there have been some learnings. If you are in the midst of a roll-out or are planning to bring in gamification into your organisation, I would urge you to keep the following aspects in mind. I call them the ‘Ethos of Gamification‘. · Have a sponsor at the senior level · Clear tangible outcomes · Keep it fun & engaging · It is for your average and bottom performers · Target setting · It’s not abou...

In most organizations, the work culture, designed and applied in a rigid goal-oriented manner is unable to keep pace with the speed of change. There are multiple factors like changing technology, rapidly evolving market ecosystem and most importantly, the radically shifting thought process and behaviours of the generation coming into the workforce today, the GenZ. This is resulting in a lack of a culture of engagement, leading to increasing attrition, falling productivity and most importantly talent drain. Conventional top-down approaches of rewards and consequence management no longer has the impact it delivered in the past; in fact, over time it has become counterproductive. The need is to build engagement bottom-up and that is where gamification comes in. Gamification in Business  refuels dried up motivation, takes the disengaged brain to the highest levels of engagement by taking it into the state of play and thus brings about transformation at a belief level”, says Rajib Ch...