Gamification Talk Radio

I’ve invited John to be a guest on the program today, because we’ve chosen John and Geoteaming to lead a hi-tech team building event for us at GamiCon - The First International Conference for the Gamification of Learning which will be held in Chicago on October 6-8 of this year. Geoteaming Event – The Chase The Chase is a high-tech scavenger hunt to search for hidden locations and complete missions by photos and videos. With an emphasis on networking, problem solving, information sharing, and leadership development, teams will focus on multiple challenges, work under a time constraint, master new equipment and develop new patterns of behavior within a team environment. The Chase ends at Reggies Chicago Rooftop for a celebration with food, drinks, and fun, highlighted by a digital slideshow set to music to announce the team results and award a prize to the winners. About John Chen:  John is the extreme leader of Geoteaming – he climbs mountains, walks on fire, swims with dolphins in the wild, rides H

Just because you can't use words like games and gamification to describe the types of learning experiences you are using, doesn't mean you can't infuse your training with fun, interactivity, and a gameful spirit. Like a super hero in disguise, gamification can be the secret identity behind an innovative and highly effective training program. That was just the approach Valary took in producing a blended learning program called Exploring Our Customer Service Universe: Moving Beyond Expectations that was delivered to experienced administrative and support staff at a top 10 law firm.    About Valary Oleinik: Valary is one-part artist, one-part geek, and 100% committed to finding ways to help people develop and deliver more engaging and effective learning experiences. She is a project manager at Weil, a top-tier international law firm, where she has been involved in training and development of both technical and professional skills. She is also a frequent speaker and educational consultant on gamificatio

It's hard to make a recipe to gamify a classroom as every one has different approaches, but the core mistakes are often the same.  In this episode, Bernardo Letayf, Founder of BLUErabbit, will discuss: Common mistakes in gamifying a classroom How long does it take for you to master your own classes? What is the hardest class to gamify? What's the best order/place to start gamifying your classes? And more... About Bernardo Letayf:  Originally a Web designer, Bernardo started studying gamifcation in 2010. After many mistakes through 4 years, and trying to make excel work for it, he finally developed BLUErabbit as a tool to gamify his classes. He has a huge passion over education and has declared a world wide war on grades as the represent the first line of defense on a broken education system.  This year, BLUErabbit was funded after receiving the Outstanding Gamification Software 2017 (Gamificatoin Europe) and it's working it's way to over 150,000 players including all cultures. Connect wi

If you are an HR professional or a corporate trainer, webinars present a number of advantages. They are cheaper than holding regular meetings, participants have access to the webcast afterwards, and attendees can still interact live with the presenter. Although we know that very few do. Haven’t you found there is something about a webinar that encourages complacency in the listeners? There is very little interaction and engagement. We operate on the assumption that webinars offer all the benefits of live instruction, with the efficiencies of online communication… and we know that reality is something different, don’t we?  In this episode you'll learn Six Sure-fire Ways to Gamify Your Next Webinar. It’s time to eliminate the boring and dull, and learn how to add gamification to emphasize interaction and collaboration, competition and engagement. About Monica Cornetti:  A gamification speaker and designer, Monica Cornetti is rated as a #1 Gamification Guru in the world by UK-based Leaderboarded. She i

The fantasy… the employees will enjoy the training and will apply their new knowledge in the workplace. We pay them to do this, so participants should apply their new skills and develop an attitude to solve problems. The reality... most corporate training is dry, dull, boring, and unimaginative. Participants are secretly contemplating ways to "end it now" so that they don't have to sit through another 4 hours of this mind-numbing drivel. There will be no application of knowledge and absolutely nothing will change in workplace behavior. Enter gamification – driving motivation, with the hope of engaging us and alluring us just as games do. But with a potentially significant cost for development and a high chance of failure, is gamification something that we can or should recommend to the C-team? This week, learn how to use a low-tech, low-cost, high-impact gamification strategy as your gateway drug. Get 'em hooked and coming back for more!   About the Host:  Monica Cornetti Featured on the cover of Bl

Expect to hear Juliette talk to you all about learner engagement! For the past 14 years, Juliette has dedicated her life and business to promoting the powers of learner engagement in the workplace, and the results are endless! Some of the things you can learn from Juliette are: The powers of gamification to increase engagement in training How learner engagement can transform your business The top tips for implementing an effective learning technologies solution across a business About Our Guest: Juliette Denny is the Ideologist in Chief (AKA Managing Director) at Growth Engineering, and her unwavering mission is to wage war on dull online learning!  She is a pioneer and expert in applying gamification and social functionality to online learning. She has an unrivaled passion for learner engagement, which leaves audiences inspired and electrified  Juliette is an influencer, an expert, and she also has direct access to primary research through her own products and solutions, meaning that her tal

In spite of a constant flow of amazing new technologies, this era of email overload and social media feeds is distracting us from our work. People are experiencing poor productivity and lower motivation. Are games an additional distraction or can we use them to remove distractions, improve your focus and get you back on a path to delivering quality work, higher productivity and mastery? About Pete Jenkins - An international speaker, adviser and trainer in Gamification. Pete founded his company GAMIFICATION+ LTD in 2000, and has since advised and trained companies of all sizes, both in the UK and internationally, on the use of Gamification. He is Chair of GamFed (the International Gamification Confederation), and Chair and Organizer of Gamification Europe, an annual conference for Gamification practitioners. Connect with Pete: Website: https://gamificationplus.uk Twitter: @petejenkins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenkinspete/ About the Host:  Monica Cornetti Featured on the co

Gamification doesn't need to be complicated, sometimes all you need is a simple score to change behavior. Score science is a practice that helps you get it right. Toby Beresford created rise.global in his garage in 2012 as a tool to keep and share digital scores. It's now being used by senior influencers across the world to track their own social media success and to encourage others to do the same. In 2017, 400,000 people engaged with rise.global  - each spending an average of 25 minutes on the site. Connect with Toby Beresford:  Website www.rise.global Twitter: @tobyberesford LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tobyberesford About the Host:  Monica Cornetti Featured on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek, Monica works with individuals and organizations who want to learn how to think differently to achieve uncommon results. A gamification speaker and designer, Monica was rated #1 among the “Gamification Gurus Power 100” by RISE in 2015, 2016, and 2017, and was also recognized as a Top 3 Finalist in

Gamification is still just a buzzword for some, while for others they’ve already implemented it with powerful effects on their business process. We’ve seen some gamification projects which have a very pretty design but have failed to engage users and others with a very ugly interface but are addictively engaging their users! What is the secret? About Altug Yilmaz - is a Mathematical Engineer and worked for several training companies in Turkey for more than 10 years. He is the author of first Turkish gamification book: Herkes icin Oyunlastirma and he is Gamification Federation's (GamFed) Turkey ambassador. Altug blogs in Turkish about gamification at his blog: www.oyunlastirma.co. He is only Turkish person invited to speak at the Gamification World Congress (GWC16) in Madrid,Spain and recently spoke at the Gamification Europe Conference '17 in Brighton, UK. Connect with Altug: Website - www.oyunlastirma.co Twitter: @ercanaltug LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ercanaltug/   About the Host:  

Gamification as a tool for designing engaging experiences should not be restricted by technology. There is a need for physical and digital experiences to be merged AND playful and gameful inspirations should be at the heart of such a design process. Today we’ll explore Sylvester’s  Insights into existing work in exploring a more hybrid and playful learning experience, such as the EU Funded Beaconing project (http://beaconing.eu) His Views on hybrid learning in comparisons to blended learning And his findings from the GameChangers project (http://gamify.org.uk)  About Sylvester Arnab: A Full Professor in Game Science at Coventry University, UK, leading applied research and innovation at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL).   With over 10 years research experience in simulation, serious games and gamification combined, his research interests include gameful, playful and persuasive designs that transform ordinary tasks into extraordinary experiences. He has a large portfolio of funded

Is there a business that doesn’t want to have motivated users and engaged customers? How about a company that doesn’t crave higher productivity of happy employees? There has been different mindsets and disciplines to answer the need, but all share a toolbox that uses the tools of creativity and fun. No matter what they call the package, it’s here to stay. In this episode, we explore such questions as: Is game design an essential part of Engagement Solution Design? How to handle cultural and environmental differences in gamification design? Why do we need different opinions while designing a solution?   About Alireza Ranjbar Shourabi: CEO/co-founder and game designer of “Art of Light and Motion Interactive Softwares”. He has also co-founded “IRAN Gamification Association” which is a community for Gamification enthusiasts to gather around the subject. He has been rated #2 in “Global Gamification Gurus Power 100” in 2017; designed engagement solutions and gamified campaigns for Fintech, E-l

This week my guest is Rob Alvarez of the Professor Game Podcast - www.professorgame.com   For several years, Rob has been creating the engaging interactive learning materials used every day in business education at a leading business school. Since he jumped onto gamification he's been searching for as much information out there as he could find and applying it to projects with epic wins and lessons learned. Recently Rob launched the Professor Game podcast professorgame.com where he offers his listeners the opportunity to learn from his guests as they disclose their offer the listeners all the possible value to learn from their wildest successes and their FAILs (First Attempt in Learning).  In this interview you’ll get the best of what Rob’s been able to learn in less than thirty minutes, including: Why gamification is the way to go about learning. Key learning's from IE Business School's publishing department. What you can take from his journey and apply to your own practice. About Rob Alvare

In this episode, Zach and I explore why using a third party to find the right gamification software is a must in today’s saturated software market. TechnologyAdvice.com has the solution to help businesses find which software is ideal for a company’s unique needs. Best of all? The service is free. A few things covered in this podcast will include: Common problems gamification software buyers are trying to solve How to use a service like TechnologyAdvice to find the right software How this service is free Why you should use TechnologyAdvice to find your perfect software About our Guest:  Zach Jones is the VP of Sales at TechnologyAdvice. He is a marketing-minded sales leader who has a passion for helping clients connect with buyers through innovative marketing programs. Zach is not afraid to challenge the status quo when it comes to traditional marketing strategies and loves to push marketers to think differently about how they drive results for their business. As a Nashville native and graduat

Organizations across the Middle East have used gamification over the past few years to address lack of user engagement within their organizations and the marketplace. And just as businesses in the U.S. and Europe are using gamification to build community, clarify objectives, and motivate teams, organizations across the Middle East are reaping the rewards of these gamified programs. In this episode, Ahmed and I explore: A brief analysis of Gamification in Middle East The differences in designing Gamification in different cultures The reshaping  of the Gamification industry in the Middle East About our Guest: Ahmed Hossam:The International Gamification Confederation (Gamfed) Ambassador in Egypt, Ahmed is a Keynote speaker, Consultant, Designer and Facilitator on Gamification. He is Currently the president of Gamification Egypt and the Founder of Gampact. In July, 2017 he was Rated #2 in the “Global Gamification Gurus Power 100” based in the United Kingdom. He has helped a variety of companies,

There is a growing nervousness in L&D about how to provide value in an industry that hasn’t changed much since the adoption of the LMS and the ability to create videos on demand. The bottom line is that EdTech has not evolved at the same pace as productivity tools like marketing automation and CRMs. And the result is that traditional training, of which I will include eLearning, does not have an impact on performance like it should; instead the objective of training is course completion rather than business impact. Fortunately, technology is catching up and there are solutions. In this episode Colin and I discuss: Gamification and Micro-learning are these just another fad? The gap between training and performance Barriers holding L&D back from fully engaging gamification Recommendations for organizations who want to start with gamification   About our Guest:  Colin Daymude Colin is the former owner of one of the fastest growing training companies in America; training over 20k employees in t

Is it a Game… or is it Gamification? What's the Difference? E-learning is a fundamental piece of business training strategy. While this method of training provides many useful ways of transferring information, the larger challenge is how to best sustain that learning. In recent years, many companies have moved toward creating “gamified” courses for their learners, but what exactly does that mean?  What are the basic elements of a gamified approach to training design? How can I use gamification to get my learners more engaged? How does gamification drive knowledge retention?  Let’s explore how gamification is similar to, and different from, creating games and how you can leverage the strengths of each - to design captivating experiences for your learners.     About our Guest:  Chuck Sigmund Chuck is the Senior Program Manager of Instructional Design for Amazon Global Customer Service. He has a passion for leveraging state-of-the-art techniques to make learning as engaging and impactf

Many trainers and instructional designers have already discovered the power of storytelling in a practical sense – they have observed how compelling a well-constructed narrative can be. But recent scientific work is putting a much finer point on just how stories change our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Should we incorporate into every training or presentation some kind compelling, story or narrative? Will a powerful narrative make your information more persuasive and memorable? Can stories be used to manipulate your learners?   About our Guest:  Jonathan Peters, PhD Jonathan holds a Master Certification in the Reiss profile He is an international speaker and writer and has spoken before audiences from Melbourne, Australia to Augusta, Maine. His specialty is marketing and customer experience, helping audiences identify what motivates their customers and learn how to speak toward those motivators. Jonathan has authored four books, including Cavemen Can’t Market, the first the Caveman Trilogy. H

My guest this week is Michael Matera and our topic today is:  Gamification in Education What does gamification look like in the education space? Does gamification in education have the power unlock both student’s potential, creativity and enthusiasm? What does it do for the teachers? Michael and I are will explore with you how teachers can use powerful game machines in their courses and lesson design to build their courses in such a way to inspire lifelong learning and unlock a student’s real potential. Michael is driven to transform education through theoretical and technological applications that identify and inspire limitless learning thresholds in ourselves and in our students.  Join the transformation of education by visiting his website and educational blog Explorelikeapirate.com.   About Michael Matera:  Michael Matera has taught for more than a decade using interactive play, passion and purpose-driven learning to transform the classroom in international, public and private school

Used by elite athletes and military Special Forces to heighten human performance, by clinicians to improve the cognitive health of patients, and by students to boost learning – NeuroTracker uses a multiple object tracking exercise to: Improve Attention Enhance Executive Function and Working Memory Heighten Visual and Auditory Processing Speed Increase Inhibition and Response Control Elevate Biological Motion Perception On this episode, Monica and Jean discuss how NeuroTracker compares to other brain training applications on the market; the types of benefits those training with NeuroTracker experience; and its efficiency compared to other games.   About Jean Castonguay:  With more than 30 years’ experience as a corporate lawyer and as an entrepreneur, Jean has managed international law and business consulting practices and since 1998 he has held senior management positions in start-up and high-growth companies spanning the life science, technology and manufacturing sectors.  In

We are barraged with a constant stream of new ideas for design and delivery of solutions that can improve learning, engagement, and performance. Finding methods to rapidly evaluate innovation, while maximizing the benefits and minimizing the risks, can mean the difference between success and failure. How can you strategically innovate your training so that your learners develop new knowledge faster, become more deeply engaged, and have a greater impact? Emerging technologies are providing many new and different approaches for designing and delivering training ... but where to get started? Today on the program, Monica and David discuss how to strategically innovate your training through the intentional integration of emerging technologies. How can one make sure they are on the success side of innovation? What does that process look like? What are the latest innovations? What are the benefits of partnerships and how does a partnership come about? How can one maintain an appropriate level of risk with innovatio