How Gamification Can Improve HR Management

How Gamification Can Improve HR ManagementHow Gamification Can Improve HR ManagementGamification has gained a lot of attention in the online world as a way to engage customers and build loyalty. While many skeptics still struggle to understand how playing a game can have a real geschftsleben impact, companies that have implemented external, customer-facing gamification have discovered that theres far more to it than meets the eye. These programs have tremendous power to spur motivation and influence customer behavior. How does it work? Gamification applies behavior-motivating techniques from traditional and social games to non-game environments. An effective gamification program actually looks more like a loyalty program supercharged to help achieve real business goals when it is expanded beyond points, badges, and leaderboards. Certainly, customers are not the only constituents of any company for whom feeling engaged and motivated are important for fostering loyalty. Employees can a lso benefit significantly from gamification programs that create an environment in which they feel recognized and rewarded for their achievements, even beyond compensation and benefits. While its easy to see how you might use gamification in sales to motivate performance - or even in customer support services - to incentivize quick, satisfactory resolutions, the Human Resources function of any business can also leverage gamification techniques to incentivize and reward employees for completing important, but often mundane, tasks. Improve Talent Acquisition and Management You can easily turn the hiring process into a gamified experience by rewarding prospects with both acknowledgment and tangible perks for completing each step, from application to start date. Providing incentives can not only help attract qualified candidates from the startbut can also dramatically increase onboarding efficiency as candidates are motivated to complete various steps to earn rewards. At the saatk orn time, much like a sales function, HR teams can also use gamification internally to reward top recruiters and incentivize employees to refer top candidates. The opportunity for an employee to earn Referrer of the Year status can encourage employees to take a more active role in talent acquisition, and even help relieve some of the pressure from the HR department itself. Cultivate Corporate Culture and Retain Valued Employees Keeping employees engaged and feeling like theyre part of the team is critical for retention. And, retention is paramount in maintaining valuable personal assets, institutional knowledge and consistency, and avoiding costly turnover. You can use gamification to promote a positive corporate culture by rewarding employees for cross-departmental collaboration, providing a process or product improvement suggestions, or even participating in company-wide volunteer programs, for example. You can use a gamified platform to track these activities and opportunities, as well as showcase employee participation to their coworkers to provide intrinsic motivation. As an added benefit, the platform maintains a record of all employee activities in the program, which is quite valuable information when it comes time to consider promotions, raises, and other tangible rewards. Motivate Employees to Learn and Participate in Training Mandatory HR training, like harassment, diversity, and other compliance programsare often not high on fruchtwein employees priority lists, especially when they dont see a relationship to their day-to-day job duties. Motivating them to take time out of their busy day to complete these programs in a specified time period can be challenging. Adding a gamification experience to the online learning program can spur action. Employees who earn rewards and recognition for having completed these tasks, or missions in the gamification lexicon, are far more likely to make it a priority. And, HR benefits from the ability to check thos e boxes for compliance in a timely fashion, without the pressure of having to hound employees to complete the programs. Incentivize Paperwork and Other Administrative Requirements No one likes to complete paperwork, especially when other tasks are more pressing and exciting. But, paperwork is unavoidable in areas such as completion of benefits enrollment forms and expense reports. So why not make it fun? Similar to training applications, rewarding employees with either peer or management recognition - or even tangible incentives - for completing required forms can create a friendly competition where employees try to out-do one another for the title of best expense reporter or quickest to complete benefits update forms. Map the Path to Career Success Its no secret that peer mentorship is a powerful motivator that drives employees to want to succeed. They see colleagues earning praise, achieving goals and climbing the proverbial ladder, and they want to know how they can ach ieve the same results. Using gamification, HR departments can create transparent, mission-based career paths that show the steps employees have taken to level up in the organization. For example, perhaps the top salesperson completes refresher training annually, turns in expense reports within a week of travel, keeps his/her prospect pipeline up to date, logs 5 new leads every week and follows up on two. By showcasing this behavior in a gamified platform, other employees can see what it takes to become the top salesperson as this mentor provides a breadcrumb path to show peers the way to the top. You can even design such programs to allow team members to recognize one another for contributions made toward a common goal. And, again, all of this data is trackable, creating a valuable historic record to capture employee and organizational knowledge. By consulting the platform, its easy to identify employees who have achieved certification in specific skills, worked with clients in a sp ecific industry or make other connections throughout the data. All of this combines to create a more efficient, collaborative, productive and upwardly motivated workforce. To some, the idea of gamification sounds like a thinly veiled attempt to bait employees into doing what they should already be doing But the truth is, organizations can use gamification as an effective way to combat the employee engagement crisis in the U.S. According to a recent Gallup poll, 71% of American workers report feeling not engaged or actively disengaged in their work. This two-thirds majority translates into nearly $350 billion in lost revenue. Using gamification, HR executives and their teams can create a more interactive, rewarding and attentive workforce. It can help ward off worker malaise by leveraging intrinsic motivators to drive desirable employee behavior and improve efficiency and ROI while reducing turnover and churn costs.

Fixed mindset versus growth mindset how your beliefs can prevent your success

Fixed mindset versus growth mindset how your beliefs can prevent your successFixed mindset versus growth mindset how your beliefs can prevent your successWhy is it so hard to stay consistent with our goals and follow through successfully?Some of the most popular reasons for this is a lack of motivation and willpower, but theres something else we often forget to discuss.Its our mindset- specifically, the fixed and growth mindset, and how each one of these can affect the odds of achieving success with our goals.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreHeres how it works..What is the Difference Between the Growth mindset and the Fixed Mindset?According to Stanford University success psychologist, Carol Dweck, the fixed mindset is a belief that your character, creativity, intelligence and general ability to achieve a certain goal is fixed and cannot be changed. On the other hand, a growth mi ndset is a belief that your ability to achieve a goal can increase with practice and time.In Carol Dwecks book, Mindset The New Psychology of Success, she writesWhy welcheste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when its not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.Someone with a fixed mindset will see failure as permanent and they are likely to avoid conflict. But, a person with a growth mindset is likely to see failure as feedback to improve and problems as interesting challenges.The fixed minds et views critical feedback as a personal attack, a growth mindset views this as information to improve their efforts.The fixed mindset is more likely to put in minimal effort, since talent is fixed. The growth mindset is more likely to embrace challenging tasks and work hard to improve their abilities.The fixed mindset is more likely to give up or struggle with inconsistency in the face of adversity and obstacles. The growth mindset views obstacles as an opportunity to experiment and solve problems.The fixed mindset is overly focused on the final destination and outcome of the goal, whereas the growth mindset is focused on the systems or habits necessary for continuous improvement in achieving a goal.When it comes to risk taking, the fixed mindset is much less likely than the growth mindset to take creative risks for innovation.In reality, we often switch between both mindsets throughout the day. For example, if you catch yourself saying things like I always procrastinate, I always struggle to lose weight, I never have enough motivation, youre deckenfries in a fixed mindset that prevents you from making progress.Fortunately, theres a way to spend more time in the growth mindset zone.Quantity versus QualityLock yourself in a room doing five beats a day for three summers. Thats a different world like Cree Summers. I deserve to do these numbers- Kanye West, SpaceshipIn the book Art Fear(audiobook), authors David Bayles and Ted Orland share a fascinating story about a ceramics teacher that shows how the fixed and growth mindset can affect your success in lifeThe ceramics teacher announced that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.His procedure was simple on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the quantity group fifty pounds of pots rated an A, forty pound s a B, and so on. Those being graded on quality, however, needed to produce only one pot - albeit a perfect one - to get an A.Well, grading time came and a curious fact emerged the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantityIt seems that while the quantity group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the quality group had sat around theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.This is the kind of analysis paralysis from a fixed mindset I struggled with for years.For example, several years ago, I wasted over 2 months procrastinating in getting started on writing a book.Every day, I would open my laptop to write the first paragraph and freeze up. I wanted every word to be perfect and to avoid failure or criticism from the readers at all costs.Just like the quality ceramics group, I spent a lot of time theorizing about th e outline of the book, the graphics of the book cover and so on- but after several weeks I still had nothing to show for it.One day, I made a decision to let go of my fixed mindset and switch to a growth mindset.Instead of obsessing over perfection and quality, I focused on starting as small as possible and churning out quantity on a consistent basis.Using this strategy, I managed to stop procrastinating and write an average of 500 words per day over several weeks, until I wrote and published a book to help students achieve their best grades.Ive also used the same strategy to stay consistent with my writing. For over 6 months, Ive published a new article on mayooshin.com without fail.It doesnt matter how bad or imperfect I believe the written piece is, I publish it anyway, receive the feedback , rinse and repeat again.The irony is that some of my written articles- the ones with the most spelling mistakes, grammatical errors- and those I felt were rushed and poor quality have become the most popular and widely shared articles Ive written.If I was so obsessed about the quality of my work and too fixed on how people would react to my writing, youd probably have never read this article and many others on this site.Im not the best writer and there are much more talented writers out there online. Does this mean that I shouldnt bother writing, since Im not talented?And, if im not a good writer, how can I become a better writer if I dont practice writing?The fixed mindset response to this is that theres no point in my writing since Im not talented enough. But, the growth mindset response is that I keep writing, sharing content and improving my writing ability.Its a lot easier to stay consistent with your goals when you develop a growth mindset.How to Develop a Growth Mindset?Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.Bill GatesThe truth is that to become a better writer, professional, friend and so on, you hav e to put in your reps, make mistakes and keep learning.The best way to develop a growth mindset is to focus on quantity and volume.If you want to lose weight and stay in shape, simply show up to exercise- no matter how short and imperfect the workout- 2 to 3 times a week. After 6 months, youll be a lot closer to achieving your weight loss goals.If you want to improve your writing, simply write and share 1 article or written piece once a week- no matter how crappy and short it is. After 1 year, youll have written over 50 pieces, one of which could go on to become successful.If you want to pick up a new hobby or instrument, simply pick up the instrument to play or practice a new song every week. After 1 year, you would be able to play over 10 of your favourite songs with the instrument.Its not about being perfect or getting it right the first time. Its about making a commitment to show up consistently- to increase the volume of effort.Your ability to achieve your goals isnt fixed base d on your level of talent.It improves with every conscious decision you make to take action.This is why its so important to shift your identity and mindset to a growth mindset.Rome wasnt built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour. Lay your own brick today.Mayo Oshin writes at MayoOshin.Com, where he shares the best practical ideas based on proven science and the habits of highly successful people for stress-free productivity and improved mental performance. To get these strategies to stop procrastinating, get more things by doing less and improve your focus, join his free weekly newsletter.This article first appeared on MayoOshin.com.

Not surprisingly Game of Thrones baby names are on the rise

Not surprisingly Game of Thrones baby names are on the riseNot surprisingly Game of Thrones baby names are on the riseParents are getting another generation ready for Game of Thrones.While the popular HBO show ends in just three weeks, baby names inspired by the show are gaining popularity in the US, with parents naming their newborns after popular characters from the hit TV show.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreThe New York Times reported Arya, the main talking point from Sundays epic episode, ranks at No. 135 on the most popular name for girls in the US. Thats more popular than Jessica or Danielle for babies in 2017.In all, 2,156 babies were named after Ayra in 2017.Some people think I took my obsession with the show too far, Marina Lippincott, who named her daughter Arya, told the Times. I dont really care. Arya knows who she is and thats who she wants to be. She goes and gets it. Nothing stops her - not even that shes a small girl.Arya isnt the only baby name on the climb. The Times reported 20 Sansa, 11 Cerseis, 55 Tyrions and 23 Theons were born in the United States in 2017.Parenting website Baby Center predicted other character names could blow up in 2019.Olenna is up 71%, climbing from 18,292 in 2018 to 5,351 while Khalessi rose 7% and now sits No. 493.Below is the ranking for GOT-inspired baby names, according to NameberryGirlsKhaleesi No. 303Sansa No. 407Arya No. 457Daenerys No. 687Myrcella No. 2,430Olenna No. 3,629Missandei No. 4325BoysTheon No. 512Jon No. 1,413Tyrion No. 1,446Samwell No. 2,437Eddard No. 2,525Wylis (Hodor) No. 6,154You might also enjoyNew neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happyStrangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds10 lessons from Benjamin Franklins daily schedule that will double your productivityThe worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs10 habits of mentally strong people

These six tired puppies are working hard to become fierce police dogs

These six tired puppies are working hard to become fierce assekuranzpolice dogsThese six tired puppies are working hard to become fierce police dogsTaiwans police forces have a new pack of pups on their hands.A dog in the NPAs K-9unit just had six puppies, who are being groomed to serve the organizationsAnti Bomb and Drug unit, according to Mashable. The publication said they were reportedly born on May 9, according to the NPA.A spokesperson for the NPA told Mashable about their plans for the pups.The puppies mom, named Yellow, is in the K-9 unit.the department that deals with anti drug and anti bomb issuesWe will train the puppies to join our police duties, the spokesperson told the publication.These puppies will have a big job to do, and are an example of nurturing young talent.So what could all this cuteness possibly be named? They go by Full Moon, Lucky Star, Feida, Brother, Schumann, and AJ.Their mom is reportedly one of 22 in K-9 unit.The cutest little bunch of puppiesPhotos of the puppies were uploaded to the NPAs Facebook page last week.(function(d, s, id) var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)0 if (d.getElementById(id)) return js = d.createElement(s) js.id = id js.src = https//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.jsxfbml=1version=v3.1 fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs)(document, script, facebook-jssdk))These puppies already have a fan inthis Twitter user.The same user followed up with wishful thinking.This user thinks the pups are super easy on the eyes.The beauty of workinganimalsFrom Gavel, a Vice-Regal Dog at Queenslands Government House in Australia, to Ollie, a Staffordshire terrier with a fake identity who fooled seven auf der ganzen welt medical journals into thinking she was a human academic, theres something we can all learn from working animals theres a lot of value in hard work.Whether youre Alpha the service dog, who was so loyal, he earned a picture in a high school yearbook, or New Zealand Polices guinea pig in police uniform named Con stable Elliot, who gives out safety tips and raises awareness, its clear that being good at your job while raising the spirits of colleagues is the true path to success.But if theres one thing Taiwans little police pups can also teach us, its that there really is nothing wrong with getting readyfor your professional career ata young age.

Video Chapter 6 New Ways to Teach Engineering

Video Chapter 6 New Ways to Teach Engineering Video Chapter 6 New Ways to Teach Engineering Video Chapter 6 - New Ways to Teach EngineeringChapter 6New Ways to Teach EngineeringThis chapter focuses on whether traditional engineering curriculum best prepares students to be global problem solvers. Based on the scenario below, Bella returns to Steadfast University and considers the skills she will need in order to create responsive engineering solutions, either in the developing world or in a global corporation. If traditional engineering curriculum doesnt fully prepare students to be global problem solvers, how can it be changed?THE SCENARIO Will Engineers Be True Global Problem Solvers? In the United States, middle school student Bella attends a Maker Faire and is inspired to join the schools robotics team. In Zambia, young Kamillo examines his villages broken water pump and wonders how it can be repaired. Both young people have started on a path that could lead them to confront some of the largest challenges on the planet. How will each be prepared and empowered to be true problem solvers?Watch Chapter 7 - Global Competition for JobsJoin the conversationThis video is part of the ASME Decision Point Dialogues seriesan initiative designed to challenge thought leaders from industry, government, academia and NGOs to grapple with some of the most complex questions facing engineers and technologists today. The series raises awareness of existing conflict points and stimulates the kind of debate that leads to bold decision making and disruptive learning. In this first installment, the panel tackles the question of how to prepare and inspire generations of engineers to solve the most pressing global challenges. The copyright of this program is owned by ASME.

Purchasing Sql Resume

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4 More Ways to Reduce Work Overload

4 More Ways to Reduce Work Overload Yesterday, I talked aboutthe unfortunate state ofprofessional life for many workers today. The majority of Americans are putting in 47 hours a week or more, which has led to poor work-life balance and increasing levels of burnout for many.To help workers combat this state of affairs, I offered four tips that can go a long way in helping you lightenyourworkload. In case those tips dont do the trick for some of you, Id like to offer four more pieces of advice today1. DelegateOften, we end upoverloaded at work because we arent delegating enough. The thing is, as more and more tasks pile up on our desks, its very likely that we have teammates who are ready, willing, and able to step in and help out.Sometimes, people dont delegate because they are afraid to do so. They fear that the people to whom they delegate their work wont deliver the same quality of results that they themselves would.If that sounds like you, you sho uld know that experts recommend delegating tasks to people who can perform them at least 70 percent as well as you can. Through practice, these people will eventually be able to perform at 100 percent of your level and youll never have to worry about delegating to them again. Youll know they can do good work.Another barrier to delegation can be the fear that, if other people can do your work, your company wont need you anymore. Its kind of ironic, actually If you overload yourself because youre worried about being made redundant, youll be reducing your own efficiency and level of wertmiger zuwachs.Thats more likely to get you fired than good delegating skills are.2. Speakto Your BossApproaching your boss for help can feel like an admission of failure but if you do it right, it can actually be a sign of personal effectiveness. The key is to come up with some possible solutions before talking to your boss about your overloaded work schedule. Possibilities include- access to extra re sources like an intern, temp,or freelancer- passing some work to a willing and able colleague- extending the deadline on certain projects- or being able to work from home in order to focus more on particular projects.Explain to your boss that you are overloaded and that its affecting your productivity. Tell them youd like to find a way to bring your workload to a manageable level.Ask your boss if they would like to hear your suggested solutions. At this point, the two of you should be able to start a collaborative brainstorming session aimed at resolving the issue.3.Take Better Care of YourselfInterestingly enough, making simple improvements to your health and well-being could increase your productivity and reduce your sense of overload.For example, exercising before work or during work has been shown to increase your mental performance and levels of energy. Its also important to get enough sleepa study of 21,000 workers found that those who get six hours of sleep a night or lessare not asproductive as their well-rested colleagues are.And, finally, research showsthat unhealthy eating islinked to decreases in productivity. If you are skipping meals and feasting on junk food, its likely that youremaking yourself less productive.4. Work SmarterIf youre an overloaded worker, theres a good chance that your hectic schedule has left you with no time to evaluate your methods and processes. Thats a shame, because taking some time to assess your workflows can help you find smarter, more effective ways to work. For example, you might find that you can automate a task youve been doing manually, thereby freeing up more time in your schedule and lightening your overall burden.By taking the right steps and committing to a plan ofaction, it is possible toface yourwork overload head-on and come out on top, with a renewed sense offulfillment and a much better work-life balance.