Gamification and other HR-instruments in Leadership development

The company’s “Ignite Leadership” Game, aligned with its overall employee engagement framework, was created to develop five key skills for leaders: negotiation, communication, time management, change management and problem solving. To date, a total of 70 leaders have completed the gamified leadership program, and 50 employees ended up taking on team leadership roles – that’s 50% higher than had done so through traditional training and coaching methods. Plus, these “graduates” of the Ignite Leadership Game generated 220 new ideas in their roles as leaders, which led to a 40 percent increase in employee satisfaction and helped lower attrition by 30 percent. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannemeister/2014/01/06/2014-the-year-social-hr-matters/2/

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The best advice is to get as much customer feedback upfron as possible. Try to "fail fast" so you can bring those learnings into your next iteration. Or better yet, try to pre-sell your solution and check customer response. Other advices from venture investors you may see http://futurerating.blogspot.com/2013/12/whats-biggest-impace-to-seed-to-early.html For getting a right idea for business, see Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy, a report from the McKinsey Global Institute, 12 technologies that could drive truly massive economic transformations and disruptions in the coming years. The report also looks at exactly how these technologies could change our world, as well as their benefits and challenges, and offers guidelines to help leaders from businesses and other institutions respond. http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/disruptive_technologies

How to Protect Yourself from Failure, by Deepak Chopra

1. Have a good support group around you at work. 2. Communicate with your spouse or partner. 3. Don't isolate yourself and carry the whole burden by yourself. 4. Identify with core values that sustain your sense of worth. 5. Build your self-esteem. 6. Develop interests outside work.

Batkid

Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco, CA is going above and beyond to grant the wish of a young boy named Miles. Miles is 5 years old and has leukemia. As a fan of superheroes, Miles’ one wish is to actually be Batman. So, the Make-A-Wish foundation, with the help of innumerable others, will turn San Francisco into Gotham City on November 15. They’ll orchestrate a full day of crime fighting all over the city for “Batkid.”

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