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Online Meetings Effective? 11 Tactics for Gamifying your Next Zoom Meeting
While online meetings are a great opportunity for organisations to maintain communication and productivity, great challenges await! […]
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How To Foster Virtual Environments For Your Dream Team To Thrive.
One of the key factors of high performing teams is the ability to understand each other, even to the extent of understanding the non-verbal messaging. […]
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Liberate your online meetings and events
When I tweeted about how to fully involve and engage 100 people in a full day Zoom workshop, the first response was “a full day – on Zoom?” We are all online on Zoom now. […]
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#Play4Sustainability: Engaging employees in sustainability through play
Sustainability is an aspect of business that is perceived by employees as complex, confusing and time consuming. A topic that is still too often ‘siloed’, leaving employees disengaged and lacking interest to understand the full […]
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Things to keep in mind when developing Educational Games
There are many things that need to be taken into account when developing games that are intended for educational purposes. Whilst every product requires different approach depending on things such as your team size, the […]
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How do we gamify sustainability at scale?
Personal behaviour change is arguably one of the most powerful tools that we have in the fight against environmental challenges, such as Climate Change, ecosystem degradation and overuse of natural resources. Although the contribution of […]
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What motivates us when we turn something into games?
Lately, games have been used as inspiration for myriads of innovations, implementations, and beneficial missions in all areas of our lives, as never before. Gamification, for example, taps into games with the purpose of positively […]
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Motivating learning through meaningful choice
Nearly all the business learning games I have come across have involved teams competing by doing exactly the same thing as each other. By that I mean that they start in the same position and […]
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Joy in gaming & gamified experiences
For each person the idea of fun or joy is different. And for many, we live in a world that appears to be obsessed with the concept that all experiences must be ‘equally’ fun or […]
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Entrepreneurial Ludic Learning
Play, entrepreneurship, and management are concepts in business. Risk-taking, changing habits, and cognitive and creative rigor stem from these big three. Playing games and creating games not only can teach high-level concepts but also build […]
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To Play at Work, See What You Do as a Game
One of the most prominent personalities in gamification, Andrzej Marczewski, wrote in his well-received book Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play: Unicorn Edition, “Work is actually very similar to play and even more like games. […]
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How games do feedback better than your boss
For most people there is a clear delineation between ‘Work’ and ‘Play’, and with it the sad assumption that ‘Play’ is enjoyable and voluntary, and that ‘Work’, being its polar opposite, is unpleasant, and an […]
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Simple Ways of Making Work Playful
Playfulness is a rather unique phenomenon that when utilised effectively can be a useful resource for enhancing social awareness and community building within workplace environments. According to Johan Huizinga’s ‘Homo Ludens’ “play is older than […]
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Duolingo review – how to apply Gamification smarter
Have you ever thought: “I want to learn to speak _____”? That same energising thought got 300 million people to try out Duolingo, a freemium tool to learn any of 36 (and rising) languages. These include little-spoken […]
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Are You Leading Play in Your Organisation?
When did you last play in your organisation ? How often do you leave a meeting room uninspired with the solutions presented ? Do you need a more positive and energised workforce ? Organisations are […]