Keep Employee Training Fun Using Gamification
Gamification in corporate training has nothing to do with PlayStations or smartphone apps. Instead, it means using your online training software to stimulate employee engagement in training by converting learning activity into a more game-like experience. Echo360 and Echo360 have come together to redefine learning engagement with products like EchoPoll, which includes gamification elements that can help drive success in employee training. With our guiding e³ philosophy focusing on equity, engagement, and evidence, gamification of employee learning becomes a leading motivation for excellence in corporate training programs.
What are the benefits of gamification in employee engagement and training?
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Employee feedback
Through EchoPoll’s gamification elements, your trainees can receive constant, updated, and automatic feedback. You can use various leaderboards in your online training program so employees can observe how they’re doing compared to personal benchmarks or other employees taking the same training. Feedback is one of the most significant features of gamification in training. It allows trainees to continually understand how they’re doing and what they can do to improve their performance.
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Employee recognition
Most employees believe that recognition is the main tool managers can use to increase employee engagement. Recognition is as important as financial rewards to the majority of employees and trainees. EchoPoll offers gamification elements like completion badges that give trainees a way to see who is doing especially well and who has improved. With EchoPoll, this is carried out automatically, making it easy to implement and maintain.
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Skill development and improvement
Using the gamification elements provided with EchoPoll is a way to provide opportunities to your employees to learn and improve their advancement potential. By setting a learning path lined with achievement badges, managers can encourage each employee to create their own future in the company as they collect sets of badges that lead to increased opportunities.
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Motivation and encouragement
When you change boring classes into gamified sessions, you encourage friendly competition among employees and motivate them to perform better than one another. When each trainee wants to appear on the top of EchoPoll’s leaderboard, you’re bound to get the best performance out of each person.
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Employee engagement
Gamification is a potent engagement tool that works with trainees’ brain chemistry to produce actual behavior variation. Gamified training releases a rush of happy hormones, making the trainee want to repeat the positive experience. When trainees enjoy learning, they feel involved and want more. Gamification draws employees into the training program and makes them more interested and excited to participate.
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Autonomy and self-paced learning
EchoPoll makes it easy to create asynchronous courses so your trainees can select their own schedule, within selected parameters, to start and complete training courses. Gamification takes place automatically, so each employee reaps the benefits regardless of when they participate in the training course. They can use any device they want from whatever location is convenient.
How can I create content that uses gamification for employee engagement?
EchoPoll works hand-in-hand with our other products. Point Solutions is a suite that gives you everything you need to engage with your trainees whether they join the course in person or virtually. It has elements like polls, images, quizzes, and more. These features help lectures and presentations become truly interactive sessions.
Echo360 is a video management platform that helps you create and share excellent educational content. You can simply drag and drop content into your personal library and then tag it, edit it, and share it with individuals, a small group, or an entire class of trainees. It also features Automatic Speech Recognition, which creates editable, searchable transcripts that can easily be turned into closed captions.
Testing is essential for gamification — it’s how the badges or other rewards are generated. EchoExam makes generating tests simple. You can create your own content for study guides, worksheets, and assessments. EchoExam can generate up to 26 versions of the same test, discouraging answer sharing among trainees. EchoExam also provides the metrics you need to track each trainee’s performance so you can step in if someone needs help.
How can we start using gamification in our corporate training?
Gamification is a powerful tool that’s easy to implement in your corporate training program. To learn more about EchoPoll’s gamification features and the other features our products bring to the table, set up a demo today.