Should You Leverage Microlearning Game-Based Strategies?
As the name suggests, game-based learning is a learning journey with goals clearly specified, and the subject matter is designed in such a manner that it helps learners understand the concepts by applying gamified learning designs. These gamified learning journeys can imitate the real world in fields like sales, development and training, health and safety, leadership, cultural transformation or compliance, and employees can improve their strategic thinking, decision making, market analysis, problem-solving, leadership, teamwork, and so much more. This helps organizations prepare employees beforehand and bridge any gaps that may occur, and boost performance.
Notable Reasons To Launch A Bite-Sized Gamification Strategy
Stress And Anxiety
Stress and anxiety are generally a part of all workplaces, even more so since the start of the pandemic. Employees tend to have less energy and morale, but there is a way to turn that around. Studies show that training with the help of game-based learning helps release endorphins which assist people coping with mental health issues.
As new people join the team, it is hard to socialize with the employees who have been with the organization for a long time. Game-based learning helps all the team members interact amongst themselves and avoid social isolation. After all, if an employee is happy, they would pay more attention and participate during your training, resulting in a higher rate of retention.
Mobile Learning
With the COVID-19 amongst us, people have been forced to work from home, and therefore, learning has slowed down. Code of Talent allows you to design and build different digital microlearning journeys for your employees and allows them to learn at their own pace. It also allows peer-to-peer learning and broadens their viewpoints.
Organized Fun
All of us have been on the other side of the table, having to suffer through a long learning course with just one person presenting the whole time. Game-based learning makes training fun as well as effective and ensures all members participate and learn. You could break up training with a brainstorming activity or a mind map to force employees to engage with the material, digital training is making this much easier to implement.
One of the most important things of training is challenging employees to put their learning into practice, and gamified learning does exactly that. They would try, might fail but continue trying and learn from their mistakes and finally succeed. There are a few practices that can be implemented to make the most out of training:
- Provide employees with incentives that would encourage them to engage and apply the material.
- Make the training relevant to the employee’s job, rather than something generic.
- The training should be actionable takeaways for the employee so that they can implement it in their work.
- Always provide feedback immediately to let employees know about areas of improvement.
In a digital context, Code of Talent offers various methods to keep them engaged: discussion boards, badges, leaderboards, we have measured their energy levels, we have a system that could take their points and transform them into a real-life object – a rewards feature, which, if used by the company, they can buy different stuff put forward by the company, with the points.
Productivity And Innovation
All of us have been on the other side of the table, having to suffer through a long learning course with just one person presenting the whole time. Game-based learning makes training fun as well as effective and ensures all members participate and learn. You could break up training with a brainstorming activity or a mind map to force employees to engage with the material, digital training is making this much easier to implement.
Cost-Effective
One major benefit of game-based training is the money you save. The training process is sped up, and instead of the average 46 hours of traditional training, game-based training requires a total of 20-25 hours. Employees deal with potential real-life situations during the learning journey, so they are aware of all compliance risks without handling them and possibly making mistakes. As we said earlier, all of this results in a happier training participant, which means they would want to stay with the company resulting in a higher retention rate and no repeated onboarding and training costs would be incurred.
Critical Thinking
Games encourage employees to think about a problem in-depth and from various perspectives while they attempt to solve it. The same skills are required during their jobs, and game-based strategy gives them prior experience before dealing with problems in the real world.
Safe Environment
Companies want their employees to be better trained, but the greatest risk of doing that, especially when talking about soft skills, is getting it wrong and having unhappy customers on your hands as well as money lost. But one never learns without making mistakes. You can ensure the employee learns, makes mistakes, and has no repercussions through game-based learning.
Progress Tracking
Trainers and managers can track each employee’s progress through real-time analytics, and they would be able to observe the strengths and weaknesses in-depth and work upon them accordingly. This kind of real-time tracking is unavailable through traditional training.
Conclusion
Microlearning is quick to consume, but it’s not always quick to develop. Fortunately, this eBook has best practices and tips to choose the best platform in record time. Download the eBook Your Microlearning Journey Roadmap: How To Launch A Microlearning Game-Based Strategy That Gets Rapid Results for more insider secrets.
