What is it about playing games you love the most? Is it the challenges that you love to face or is it a sense of achievement?

Gamification is adding game characteristics to everyday actions to make them more interesting. Adding the element of Gamification to even the most tedious and monotonous work can make it interesting. For example, an employee finds filing paperwork very boring, buying office necessities – a burden. But the outlook will change if the employee is getting rewarded through gamification. And this reward does not have to be money, getting a mentor for a job function of his/her choice for a week is a great reward. It can certainly bring about a change in the daily habits and behaviour of employees at the workplace.

Why Gamification?

Let’s imagine, you have recruited a  fresh set of people, they are buzzing with enthusiasm and have a constant urge to learn new things! Great! But what’s next for them? You need to maintain their enthusiasm. This is when Gamification comes into play.

Let us focus on Gamification at the workplace and the ways to improve employee engagement.

1. Improves employee performance: When employees have certain goals and objectives to achieve, gamification can make this process fun and fruitful. You are rewarded with points, rewards and ranks. You can also measure your performance with the help of reports. You feel motivated to give your best in your day-to-day responsibilities.
2. Sense of competition: By improving the tools to measure performance your overall abilities to compete also improve. You stay hooked onto achieving more and more points. There could be ways to reward the “Employee of the week/month”. This can also motivate other employees to strive for that title.       
3. You receive instant feedback: You need not wait for weeks or months for your performance evaluation. You can obtain your results within a matter of seconds. You instantly get your performance once your objective in the game is completed. So, luckily your patience won’t get tested!
4. Makes mundane trainings understandable: All humans are not instilled with the same level of understanding or retention abilities. They vary from person to person. So what if this learning is made fun? Training can be made compact by explaining the most complex topics in interesting ways. It’s time to look forward to training sessions optimistically!
5. Promotes teamwork: As the saying rightly goes, “United we stand, divided we fall”, gamification gives you the advantage to work in a team and achieve a common objective. You can get a chance to connect with a teammate from a different department to bond over the aspects of gamification.

Hence, make sure you are all ears to the needs of your employees. Find unique ways to keep them engaged; gamification has become as unique and innovative as it could get. You could implement different gamification tools depending on the nature of your company.

At TGC Technologies, we provide multiple gamification solutions and even design customized solutions on the basis of your requirements. Let’s talk –
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Blog Author: Apurva Desai

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