Create Team Engagement by Playing Together

A new breed of engaging cooperative video games can help your team work together better, because they get to practice achieving a common goal.

Why it Matters:

Any glance at the Gallup employee engagement polls tells a dire story of employee engagement. What's more, we are seeing work become more and more transactional, leading to an in-company gig economy. With no connections, employees change companies without changing seats. But you can do something about it. Online video games have been developing friend-making, community-building technology for decades. These tools work in person, and remotely. You can put that technology to work in your business.

Big Picture:

Over the next several weeks, I will be sharing content from my upcoming book, "Playing Together." It is a recipe for understanding how to run fun workshops that bring teams together and get them to experience the four S's of connection.

1. Synchronicity - having the same experience at the same time.
2. Shared identity - working together toward a common goal.
3. Spatial memory - a shared memory spread throughout the group.
4. Serendipity - unplanned, unstructured conversations.

If you reflect back on your own time in school, you will find that these elements are present in our education system, which is why it seemed so much easier to make friends in school than in work. We can intentionally recreate those elements to a certain degree in our work environment. I will show you how.

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'" - C.S. Lewis

Takeaway:

Cooperative video games are a powerful tool to actually build teams, and I will show you how to do it.