Gamification In Sales: Leaderboard Best Practices that Power Up Employee Engagement

You’re on your toes, constantly looking over your shoulder to make sure that nobody sees what you’re doing. You listen closely for telltale sounds, and as soon as you hear them, you hastily stop and cover your tracks.

No, this is not a suspense film and yes, I’m sure many sales executives and agents have experienced this situation at one point or another.

It’s usually what happens when you try to play games at work.

Thankfully for office ninjas who routinely sneak in a round of Solitaire or Minesweeper during the workday, a steadily increasing number of research results have shown that playing games at work might actually be a good idea.

Instead of being time wasters, games played at work can actually boost productivity and rev-up employee morale. “I compare games with a coffee break. If you are like me, you use them in strategic, functional, useful ways,” says University of Utrecht’s Professor Jeffrey Goldstein, who pioneered one of the earliest studies on the subject.

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