Gamification for employee motivation

Ever used gamification for employee motivation?
I have.

We created a simple module initially (as a prototype):
- High Level badges on achieving a specific level
- Low level badges (area based)

Step 1:
Identify areas for your low level badges
Create areas where you would like to see your employees perform:
- Documentation
- Code Reviews
- Agile Process followed
- Unique test cases/scenarios
- Certifications
- Follow ups with different groups (during a project)
- Team work
- Trainings and presentations
- Knowledge sharing

You could have as many low level badges as you like. The areas would be based on your organization priorities or project priorities.

Associate each badge with a set of points.

As employees garner points, they would be in the leader boards for each area.

An employee will get a high level badge based on the number of points he/she accumulates.

Advantages:

• Employees have access to the area based leader-boards and that serves as a feedback on areas they need to improve on.
• This promotes a healthy environment within an organization

We have implemented it and found employees enjoying collecting points and badges.

The only dis-advantage of this model is to constantly keep inventing newer badges or challenges else it will become monotonous and die a natural death.