Gamification can be used to motivate new hires during orientation. Elements like goal-setting, competitions, badges and leveling up can engage users and align their behavior with organizational goals. This increases engagement, commitment and supports active learning for new employees. For example, SAP used an online gamified training platform to educate and engage new hires before they joined. This increased awareness about the company, saved senior management time by 70% and reduced costs by 60%. Gamification provides a potent tool to transform new hires into productive employees when embedded effectively in the organizational culture.

1. Gamification for new hire
orientation
Parul Sharma

2. Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_-su3J1VrY
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3. What is Gamification?
Gamification is the process of using game concepts and mechanics
to engage users and change behavior.
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4. Pillars of Gamification
Gamification is founded in the
fundamentals of human
psychology and behavioral
science, and rests on three
primary factors
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Motivation
Ability
Triggers

5. Elements of Gamification
Real-time
Feedback
Onboarding Goal-Setting Competition Badges Levelling-Up
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6. How to Gamify New-hire Orientation
Understand
Audience &
Context
Define
Learning
Objectives
Structure the
Experience
Identify
Resources
Apply
Gamifications
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7. Impact Of Gamification on New-Hire
Onboarding
Gamification is a potent tool that can motivate the new hires to absorb the induction material on
their own, thereby enabling transformation to productive and committed employees.
GAMIFICATION
Embedding in the org culture
in an effective manner
Increases network by
fostering team skills
Increases engagement,
commitment and
motivation.
Supports Active learning
for new employee
ONBOARDING
OBJECTIVE
Align new-hire behavior
with organizational goals
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8. Let’s Play!
• Pretend you are a new hire for Google and you are
in a Orientation Program.
• The purpose of the game is to learn more about
Google’s culture.
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9. Instructions
• Each of you has a piece of a puzzle. On each piece there is a
statement about Google.
• If you think this statement is correct, you choose “YES”. If you
think this statement is incorrect, you choose “NO”.
• Follow the hint for the letter you chose.
• Try to find the person who has the card you need to put next to it.
• Work with your classmates to build the puzzle!
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11. What the future holds:
Challenges and Success Criteria
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12. Challenges
• Game mechanics to motivate positive behavioral change.
• Identifying the correct KPIs and Metrics.
• Defining objectives of gamification.
• Incentives and programs to promote desired behavior.
• Measurement and analysis techniques to be applied once
these programs are live.
• Visibility to key stake holders.
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15. How SAP Saved Senior Management
Time By 70% and Reduced Costs by 60%
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16. • SAP regularly hires new employees from college – as a key
part of its talent acquisition strategy.
• SAP was looking for :-
– An online solution to engage pre joiners between the day
of offer and joining
– To excite them about SAP as a prospective employer
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Overview

17. Challenge
• Educate and engage new hires even before they join.
• Scalable new hire training program.
• Reduce time and effort spent by senior management on
onboarding
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18. • SAP leveraged Mind Tickle to create an engaging online
training platform.
• The platform served to motivate online social interactions.
• Game mechanics, such as badges, leaderboard, points etc.
• The consistency and scalability of the solution provided SAP
team an efficient way to replicate the entire process across
different offices with the click of a button.
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Solution

19. • 75% increase in awareness about company and products
• 70% savings in senior management coaching time
• 60% reduction in administration and logistics cost
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Results

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Questions…