I've written before about how employers can incentivize healthy employee habits, but a feature in the Wall Street Journal introduces a new twist on this phenomenon: gamification. A recent Towers Watson and National Business Group on Health study revealed that some 60 percent of employers plan on using...
Today's post is inspired by a tweet from @Cloudscope1, who wrote, "What are your top three tips for getting more articles done in a day? Currently I'm doing about 2." Without further ado, my suggestions: 1. Set a goal for each post and write...
Cutting-edge offices around the world are gamifying work to boost employee productivity; leverage their strategies at home to gamify your day and boost personal productivity. While you probably wouldn't want to gamify every aspect of your life, these strategies will help you supercharge a morning, lazy Sunday or...
Ridiculously Efficient readers are familiar with efficiency strategies like working in spurts, leveraging Parkinson's Law and managing decision fatigue; this list of unconventional productivity strategies shares novel ideas to boost effectiveness. Productivity-Enhancing Office Practices * Does Your Office Need a Thinking Day? * 5 Management Strategies to Enable Efficiency * 3...
Managers can supercharge team productivity by taking a cue from video game design and gamifying aspects of work. Adam Dole of Method recently outlined the four things video games teach us about motivating people in a post for Fast Company: * Games create urgent optimism. * Games create tight social groups. * Games...
Website owners are increasingly installing badges, scoring systems and other methods of gamification to entice visitors to engage with their site, but Disney is taking this phenomenon to new heights with what's being called the Disneyland "electronic whip." This whip takes the form of several flat-screen...
