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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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Octalysis Analysis of a Sustainability Learning Programme
When I first discovered Yu-kai Chou’s Octalysis framework, shortly after he published ‘Actionable Gamification’, I knew straight away that I would find it an invaluable tool, not just to help me design learning with learner […]
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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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“But some people don’t like games”
Motivating non-gamers through playful, gamelike experiences and games People who are into games and gamification often get excited about it. Yu-Kai Chou, Andrzej Marczewski and Jane McGonigal have all spoken about their passion for games […]
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Why games are definitely not (just) for children
Educators (and indeed most other people) seem to be quite happy with the idea that children, and other young animals, learn from play. Felines learn hunting skills by being given food to play with by […]
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A (hopefully) Simple Look at Motivational Design
This (I hope) will be a somewhat basic introduction to what motivational design is within the context of gamification whilst having a quick look into a design methodology that may prove useful for anyone looking […]
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How Play Leads to Engagement
Play, games and gamification have been used by countless organisations to increase employee engagement. This shouldn’t come as a surprise of course as employee engagement has been proven to improve employee productivity and efficiency, reduce […]
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Keeping the Player Smart
“Your game should be a journey full of thinking of solutions and keeping the player smart.” -Tim Eckert, How Games Motivate Players ‘Keeping the player smart’ is a great way to think about learning as […]
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Gamification – Good times or Exploitationware?
Gamification – there’s a lot of it about. Everywhere you look, marketeers, contact centres and HR types are publicising their latest gamification projects and talking numbers about engagement conversions, brand loyalty and so on. But […]
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Hunger gamification
What gets you out of bed in the morning? Screaming toddlers don’t count, I’m talking about the essential you. What’s the intrinsic need, the raison d’etre, that moves you to get up, get out and […]
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Killers in the Classroom
Picture the scene. You have spent weeks, creating beautifully crafted, engaging training for onboarding / hi-po fast tracking / leadership and strategy (delete as applicable). Here you are on the first day of delivery 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 […]