Are you looking to implement gamification into your business? Impress both your internal employees and external customers and clients with providing new exciting ways of engaging with them.
There are several ways you can add gamification into your business, including offering rewards, holding competitions, keeping leaderboards and hosting actual games.
Gamification for Employees
Gamification makes your employees Happier! Recent surveys have noted that gamification not only increases workplace productivity but also positively engages employees and helps with retaining talented people for a longer period of time, saving a company a great amount of both time and money. According to recent gamification studies, around 48% of employees have agreed that gamification affects increased engagement and 72% state that gamification inspires them to work harder.
How Gamification affects Motivation:
1) Boosts Motivation: Employees get the rewards and recognition they seek, and fulfill validation about their work and place at the company. Many companies set up leaderboards to encourage everyone in the company to become a top performer.
2) Creates Daily To-do lists and direct Action items: Employees know exactly what to do and when to do it. They also know where they stand in relation to a project or task and how they can improve.
3) Fosters Healthy Competition: Creates an environment of healthy competition and motivates employees to strive for better results to achieve personal goals.
4) Builds Teamwork: Divide employees in to teams and assign specific tasks. In order to win the reward at the end, each team has to work together and complete all the tasks in a timely fashion. Create events at the workplace- onsite team building events you can create use team building games at events to increase engagement with your employees. These can be scheduled throughout the year adding fun and excitement and something to look forward to.
5) Empowers the Employee: Gamification taps into another big motivator when it comes to workplace productivity- control. It gives the employees a sense of control when they are moving up and getting rewards.
How to make Gamification work for your Company:
First, identify your Gamification Goals:
Start with your goals in mind- what is the purpose of your gamification strategy?
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