Motivation and retention have always been at the core of learning and development. It is one thing for an employee to complete their training program. It is an entirely different thing for an employee to complete their training with the knowledge and skills to show for it. How can you inspire your employees to want to succeed in reaching these goals?
There are many ways to incentivize people, from rewards to penalties. We’re going to focus on the rewards – how to positively motivate and reward using gamification.
3 Ways to Reward Employees in Corporate Training
1. Profile Creation and Leaderboards
By allowing employees to create profiles within the training solution, you can foster a sense of personalization. Creating a profile could include designing avatars, screen names, and profile customization.
Using these profiles in leaderboards can foster a healthy sense of competition. Employees can see their standing among their colleagues, motivating them to improve their performance. This would not only encourage playfulness and communication about the training within the team, but employees would also have to actually retain and recall the information to participate in good standing.
3. Storytelling and Role-Playing
People become invested in games because of the journey it takes them on. The same could be true for a gamified training experience.
Develop story-based learning modules that guide employees through different situations they may encounter in their roles. You could integrate decision-making points where employees have to choose their actions, leading to different outcomes and opportunities. You could even implement AI to act as a character in the story, simulating real-world situations dynamically.
Reward players through the narrative in the same way that they would be rewarded in the actual scenario – a satisfied customer, a sale, or a positive interview.
4. Real-World Rewards:
Although the training solutions may be digital, the incentives don’t need to stop there. Offer employees tangible rewards such as gift vouchers, extra vacation days, or other perks for reaching certain levels or achieving high scores in their training.
Send personalized emails detailing their accomplishments and rewards. This not only shows that you recognize their efforts, but it keeps them motivated to continue to succeed.
But How Can You Actually Implement These Reward Systems?
It might feel daunting to think about incorporating these techniques into your corporate training program. Gamification may often require programming and development that takes time to get right.
Fabella Creator makes it easy to integrate all of these techniques into your training solution.
No coding is needed to easily set up personalized profiles and leaderboards, track employee progress, and award achievement badges. Create immersive story-based modules and role-playing scenarios that engage employees in real-world simulations, or have Fabella Creator send your employees an email about their tangible rewards when they reach certain milestones.
By leveraging Fabella Creator, you can go beyond the basics of corporate training and develop engaging, effective, and rewarding experiences for all employees.