How To Use Gamification To Build And Motivate Your Remote Team
How To Use Gamification To Build And Motivate Your Remote Team
How To Use Gamification To Build And Motivate Your Remote Team
By Benjamin Laker
June 17, 2020
Summary
Do we know how to get it right? Most organizations already benefit from gamification techniques to some degree - employee benefit schemes for sales competitions are common gamification uses - but often, the goal is short term or lacking in an overall strategy.
In his timely new book, Infinite Gamification: motivate your team until the end of time, Toby Beresford, a seasoned gamification practitioner, lays out the simple steps any business manager can use to get gamification right.
So what is "Infinite" gamification? It turns out it's the branch of gamification most business leaders are using, albeit unconsciously when they score performance on internal metrics.
As leaders using infinite gamification techniques, our job is not to wipe out comparison altogether, that's not possible, but to signpost the healthiest form of comparison for our team's context.
Modern culture is filled with examples of infinite gamification.
Some of the most successful gamification programs are infinite by design.
Infinite gamification programs can be immensely powerful.
How do you introduce gamification appropriately into your workplace to motivate and inspire your team when they are working from home, amid the domestic noise?
Beresford says, "The key to creating a good infinite gamification program is to keep it simple and start small. Keep asking your team what feedback will benefit them and keep additional rewards to a minimum. Focus on the feedback, not the rewards. Once you've got it running, don't give up, expect your program to evolve as it becomes more useful both to you as a leader and to your team as players."
Design your infinite gamification program to drive the right behaviors in your organization.
Reference
Laker, B. (2020, June 17). How To Use Gamification To Build And Motivate Your Remote Team. Retrieved June 18, 2020, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminlaker/2020/06/17/how-to-use-infinite-gamification-to-build-and-motivate-your-remote-team/