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Fried Training Talk- The Game Of Learning

Published: Friday, February 12, 2021

JUMP FROM PLAYING A GAME TO CHANGING BEHAVIOR?

 This year, I keep coming back to discussions about learning games, because I’m involved with 2 game projects. Unfortunately, making the mechanics, the storyline, the scoring, even the graphics may be the easiest part of creating the games. The real challenge is making sure they have real impact on every type of audience.

I really like both projects for different reasons. One project is a game intended to impact player’s self-realization around unconscious bias. The other is intended to engage people with enterprise level knowledge, player interactions, tasks, and leveling.

I have 2 fears:

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    1. Even if we make the games fun, involving, & appropriately difficult, changes in behavior won’t transfer to on the job results.
    2. Knowing the resistance some have to anything called a game, I worry that specific groups of people won’t get what they should out of these games.

So help set my mind at ease by answering this week’s questions:
What is the best work impact you have seen from playing a game?

It’s been a few posts since I added a bonus question so let me add this potential bomb shell:

Would you expect more impact from learning games on a particular segment of our learners?

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Ans1: With one of our clients, a game sparked a change in the way the organization was handling tickets. Another built a communication portal to aid collaboration internally. Behaviour change is going to be hard if we stop at the game,it needs to go beyond that.
Ans 2: I wouldn't name a segment of learners but two types of learners who are impacted the most, First: The ones who are like a clean slate, willing to try anything. Second: Those who have tried everything , failed and still seeking
Jo- Thanks for your responses. I agree with you that no matter what form a training takes place in be it game or classroom if it stops there Behavior Change will be difficult.
I think your segments of learners impacted the most are interesting. I think "Clean Slate learners are probably the most likely to be impacted by any training. Those who have tried everything I would think might be a little harder to impact, especially if they feel at all bitter about it.
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