Gamification for Employee Engagament: Strategize, Design, and Implement Gamification to Successfully Engage Your Employees - Softcover

Narayanan, Akila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783001348 ISBN 13: 9781783001347

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Strategize, design, and implement gamification to successfully engage your employees

About This Book

• Learn how to successfully implement gamification for your employees
• Discover the benefits of gamification within the workplace and how it can enhance working relationships
• With lots of practical illustrations and creative ideas to show you how to incorporate gamification into the workplace

Who This Book Is For

If a positive and engaged team is important to you, get started with gamification now and discover how it could transform your workplace.

In Detail

Akila Narayanan has over a decade of experience in the IT industry and is currently working as Project Manager with one of the global IT leaders. She is a social business enthusiast and evangelist with vast experience managing complex and strategic projects for insurance customers. She specializes in enabling social business and gamification for insurance customers, has published thought papers and created customer mindshare. She holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from University of Madras and is PMP, AINS certified. She has completed the online gamification course offered by coursera.org.

Over the years, business environments have changed considerably, and the needs of the employees have changed along with it. A big challenge amongst businesses to retain and nurture the best talent. With gamification you have the opportunity, when done correctly, to engage and establish mutual trust and better retention. This book will show you what, where, when and how gamification should be applied within a business context. With focus on practical illustrations and creative ideas for implementation, by the end of this book you will feel confident on how to successfully incorporate gamification into your business.

Over the years, business environments have changed considerably, and the needs of the employees have changed along with it. A big challenge amongst businesses to retain and nurture the best talent. With gamification you have the opportunity to engage and establish mutual trust and better retention. This book will show you what, where, when and how gamification should be applied within for your business needs. With focus on practical illustrations and creative ideas for implementation, by the end of this book you will feel confident on how to successfully implement gamification to ensure a collaborative culture and sustaining engagement at your workplace.

About this title

About the Author

Akila Narayanan

Akila Narayanan has over a decade of experience in the IT industry and is currently working as a project manager with one of the global IT leaders. She is a social business enthusiast and evangelist with vast experience managing complex and strategic projects for insurance customers. She specializes in enabling social business and gamification for insurance customers, has published thought papers and created customer mindshare. She is an avid blogger in her organizational community and her areas of interest include project management, people/human resource management, behavioral analysis, motivation, process and quality, knowledge management, social business, gamification, and innovation. She is also interested in convergence of social, mobile, cloud, and analytics technologies. She has a strong passion for enabling people, a keen observer and an empathic thinker. She holds a Bachelor's degree in engineering from University of Madras and is PMP, AINS certified. She has completed the online gamification course offered by coursera.org. Akila Narayanan is based out of Chennai, India. She can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/pub/akila-narayanan/46/27b/403

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1783001348
• ISBN 13: 9781783001347
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 136