The Rising Problem of Employee Engagement with Elise Olding

The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every Thursday at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT. Join us and have all of your gamification questions answered by these experts.

This week’s guest is Gartner Research Director, Elise Olding! Elise has been heavily studying the science of motivation and engagement with the power of people. In this week’s episode you can be sure to learn about:

  • The emerging interest of using games to engage people within organizations
  • How small businesses can leverage gamification without expensive tech.
  • The existence of gamification divisions in organizations like NTT Data
  • Using explicit games social networks as an engagement tool for workspaces
  • Increasing executive acceptance of gamification as a strategy

This was a great week filled with user-participation and questions! Check out the full video below:

 

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Be sure to catch this week’s episode featuring Robert Torres of the Gates Foundation for his work in applying gamification for social good.

You can now catch the Gamification Revolution every Thursday at 1PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT.

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By 2014, more than 70 percent of Global 2000 organizations will have at least one “gamification” quote by Gartner. You probably just read that quote wrong; reread it! While a significant number of people in the gamification community are quick to reference a variety of Gartner’s gamification quotes, they do not quite mean anything to us right now in 2013. However, one analyst at Gartner has made significant strides in the research field on gamification and has relevant information to share now. Enter: Elise Olding.

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Top Talks for HR Gamification at GSummit 2013 SF

Using gamification in HR to engage with employees is becoming increasingly prevalent in modern enterprise, especially when it comes to training – see Deloitte’s Leadership Academy, for example. The speakers at GSummit 2013 recognize the power of games in this context and there’s a strong number of sessions devoted to this topic.

Check out my top sessions for HR gamification that you’ll want to make sure you see this year.

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