037: Games at Work for High Performing Employees - With Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks

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Check out my Free Legal Workshop: Employment Law for Businesses - (Sign up HERE). Strategic hiring retention of top candidates are vital to mitigating risks and meeting goals. So, how can employers differentiate their talent development offerings to attract, develop, and retain the best employees? In todays business world, high-performing teams are more important than ever- that’s where the use of games enters the workplace.

Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks is the Founder and CEO of tech startup KeepWOL. KeepWOL's fun learning platform for teams enables employee engagement and retention insights using games. The platform uses multiplayer web-based games, assessments, and personalized educational content to deeply understand employees, improve soft skills, build inclusive teams, and revitalize corporate culture.

Listen to Lauren and I discuss these topics on the Employment Experience Podcast:

7:02: Cultural intelligence and how games can help achieve diversity;

9:23: How games help production, connect teams, increase morale and keep invested employees;

11:07: How the KeepWOL games can collect metrics to aid in professional development;

12:37: Why gamification provides more employee engagement information than employee surveys;

21:00 How the games are played

Watch the video on YouTube Here.

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