February 2020 - Playing at Work

Are You Leading Play in Your Organisation?

15th February 2020 Karen Gargani 4

When did you last play in your organisation ? How often do you leave a meeting room uninspired with the solutions presented ? Do you need a more positive and en… Read More

Duolingo review – how to apply Gamification smarter

15th February 2020 Dirk van Diepen 7

Have you ever thought: “I want to learn to speak _____”? That same energising thought got 300 million people to try out Duolingo, a freemium tool to learn any o… Read More

To Play at Work, See What You Do as a Game

17th February 2020 Victoria Ichizli-Bartels 6

One of the most prominent personalities in gamification, Andrzej Marczewski, wrote in his well-received book Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play: Unicorn Edition, “… Read More

The Play is the Work

15th February 2020 Sue Baechler 4

The best games call on us to use our talent and imagination to play, learn and excel. So do the best workplaces. I didn’t start out making games. But I quickly… Read More

Entrepreneurial Ludic Learning

17th February 2020 Kathy Fuller 3

Play, entrepreneurship, and management are concepts in business. Risk-taking, changing habits, and cognitive and creative rigor stem from these big three. Playi… Read More

Co-creation with frontline staff

15th February 2020 Andy Yeoman 3

In theatre, an invisible fourth wall separates the audience from the onstage action. People in the audience are passive observers and not active participants. B… Read More

How games do feedback better than your boss

17th February 2020 Ludogogy 2

For most people there is a clear delineation between ‘Work’ and ‘Play’, and with it the sad assumption that ‘Play’ is enjoyable and voluntary, and that ‘Work’,… Read More

Simple Ways of Making Work Playful

15th February 2020 Thomas Ackland 1

Playfulness is a rather unique phenomenon that when utilised effectively can be a useful resource for enhancing social awareness and community building within w… Read More

The Dangers of Competition in Workplace Games

15th February 2020 Terry Pearce 2

Bringing Collaboration into Play Right now, gamification and games are so focused on online implementation that you could be forgiven for thinking they’re mainl… Read More

How board games can achieve behaviour change in the workplace

17th February 2020 Tania Vercoelen 3

Scavenger hunts, blindfold exercises, tower building… are you familiar with any of these workplace team building activities? These are examples of how organisat… Read More

Play is Work

17th February 2020 Dave Eng 1

Games are a type of work if you think about it. We invest our time in games. We give games our attention and our mental capacities. But why do we do that? What… Read More

KPI’s – keeping score

17th February 2020 Nigel Hopkins 1

Whilst most companies use measures, key performance indicators and dashboards, they may work against the overall company goals. KPI’s work in a similar wa… Read More

Time to get serious about Stakeholder Engagement

17th February 2020 Ask Agger 1

HOW MUST-WIN BATTLES FAIL In an ever more complex world, large organisations rely on their ability to react or proactively change through large scale strategic… Read More

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up…

15th February 2020 Scott Simmerman 3

Two caterpillars were sitting on a wagon and a beautiful butterfly floats by. The one caterpillar then says to the other, “You’ll never get me up in one of thos… Read More