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Gamifying a company induction
HI David
It's great that you are getting to the heart of this and looking to improve the induction training! What are the different modules that you are trying to meld together, you mentioned the welcome and then product information, what else comes along? It's often difficult to cover a broad range of modules in an onboarding program (especially in large, complex organisations). I had to do that a few years ago and it was definitely challenging, but in the end rewarding! At the core of it, all the induction training should relate back to one thing, and that's the company you're about to start working for and I find that is often the common thread that you can weave through. Everything you learn in the onboarding should directly reflect the company's goals and objectives. Another question is, does everyone get the same onboarding? (I don't know what kind of company this is so I'm just guessing) but are there Sales people and operations people all doing the same induction? Maybe you could have some differentiation (if you haven't already) in terms of the onboarding for specific roles - for example, sales people and finance people don't really need the same level of product training. Hope that is helpful! I'll be really interested to see how you come out, and especially if you end up using gamification (I did the same Coursera course as Jerson...and agree, it is well worth doing!). Good luck!