The Elite Commander Team: P2L’s Innovative Leadership Game.

 In p2l’s leadership game Elite Commander, you’ll assume the role of the team leader of a ragtag team of soldiers. This team will be your backbone in making it through the harsh game world. Not only does each member have a unique skill set, but also come equipped with their own quirks and backstory. Why don’t we cut to the chase and have you meet the team of elite commander.

Maria Picket (24), Female Sniper.

Trust us; You do not want to get caught within 500 metres of this bullseye baddie. 

 

Maria Picket will be your eyes in the bushes (that sounded better in my head) during your stay as team captain. With a near-perfect track record, her biggest regret remains the single-shot she missed five years ago.

 

This sarcastic sharpshooter is naturally rebellious and uniquely skilled at math and singing (don’t tell her we told you that). Her nature will test your leadership skills and may have you at odds with her time and time again. 

 

Be that as it may, Maria Picket is fiercely loyal to the people she cares about. A strong leader will maximize her potential both personally and on the battlefield.

 

Yao Wang (28), Gunner Infantry 1st Class.

Meet your pollen-sensitive, gold-loving gunner, Yao Wang. A bright strategist held back by his ego and impulsivity. 

 

At first glance, you’d think Yao Wang to be an industry-certified model. He’d love to hear that, half due to his self-absorption and a half due to his fashion industry aspirations. 

 

As the team leader, you’ll guide Yao Wang toward his full potential. Regardless of his erratic nature, a strong captain will capitalize on everything this member brings to the table.

 

His charm, influence, and persuasiveness will be valuable assets to your mission. Just keep him away from flowers, as they may have pollen, and Yao Wangs’ winged yellow enemies LOVE pollen.

 

Staff Sergeant Rob Furlong (28), Medic.

Meet the peanut-sensitive Mother Theresa of your crew, Rob Furlong. The only thing he fears more than spiders is being unable to save his comrades (that got dark).

 

Ever since he was younger, Rob Furlong dreamed of being a doctor. His kindness, compassion, and empathy will prove invaluable to your team. 

A natural statistician by heart, Rob is someone you’ll have to nurture during your stay as a leader. Validating his kind-hearted nature and tireless effort will allow him to shine like no other. 

 

Just make sure he has his EpiPen. 

 

You (?), The Leader.

The final, most essential member of the team is you.

 

As the leader of this band of misfits, you’ll be tasked with adjusting to their unique personalities.

 

The success of this mission is in your hands. Show that you have what it takes to lead your team through hell and back. 

 

This isn’t just a leadership game Reach your full potential, become a true Elite Commander.

Building A Winning Learning Strategy For 2022

Learning and development (L&D) is an ongoing process of human progress. As children, we learn as we play along. During school and university years, learning takes place in a set academic system. As adults in the workforce, we call this process career development or more commonly, on-the-job training. Thus, learning and adapting to the current trends and needs of the business is an essential part of an individual’s career advancement, which collectively leads to economic growth.

Companies over the years have recognized the importance of training their employees from time to time. Most organizations have a training plan in place for their staff at each stage of their career. Some large firms have their own training and development departments that own up to this responsibility, while others hire external agencies that offer specialized training programs to match their requirements.

The past few decades saw a boom in several training events for executives organized with extravagant themes. These offshore training events have not only added costs to companies, but they are also time-consuming for business leaders due to travel. With the recent challenges posed by the pandemic, the landscape of training and development has transformed to become fully digital.
Further, with work from home taking more prominence, companies are open to hiring talent from across the globe. This has also contributed to the need for offering training and development through online learning systems.

Learning Strategies That Will Lead to Success in 2022

Employee skills, potential, and competencies that an organization needs for its growth are enhanced with a strategic learning and development plan in place. It examines how these things can affect the organization’s sustainability and success.

Let’s dive in now to understand what learning strategies are bringing successful outcomes to companies through online learning and development programs.

Planning as a team

Training from the ground up

Previously, companies used to focus on training employees on the managerial level with leadership, communication, and presentation skills. However, with everyone working from home, virtual communication has become the norm. It is essential for every employee to have the necessary presentation and communication skills to work through virtual meetings. By shifting the focus to enhance these skills from the ground up, companies are seeing instant success in their business.

Coaching employees to become successful leaders ahead of time in the digital environment is the first key to success.

Customized training

One size doesn’t fit all. This rule applies to L&D programs as well across boards. For instance, onboarding sessions can be generic based on the company; however, industry-specific personalized training is something that gives individuals a better understanding to adjust to the new environment quickly. With more remote working in place, simple virtual training to complex augmented reality (AR) modules for teaching new hires on how to use the machinery and technology has become the way of orientation programs.

Customizing employee training also means that companies are taking care of individual employee needs into consideration, which shows the company’s interest in retaining the talent. We can integrate such personalized learning modules with key performance indicators (KPIs) and can measure the performance of the learner. These metrics can help individuals and companies assess their contribution and motivate them to perform better with each passing day.

Self-paced learning

With new challenges thrown at us by the pandemic, giving employees a flexible learning program for advancing their skills has proven to be successful. To aid this, businesses today are leaning towards offering self-paced learning options for their employees. Learning Management Systems, internal certifications, and training modules are some of the popular methods. Others are outsourcing professional trainers to build a personalized training module that best fits the organization’s needs to reach their desired goals.

As opposed to classroom training where the flow of the course material is pre-determined, online learning platforms allow learners to choose a topic that they need to polish their skills on and apply it to their work. Thus, gaining a job-specific skill to address an immediate problem saves time for both the employee and employer.

Training made fun

Gamification, which is training your staff via online games and simulation, is gaining popularity. With fewer opportunities to meet in person, companies are making efforts to bring a lot more fun-filled activities that are interactive and make learning a joyful experience. Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Microlearning, and other online training methods are trending in 2022.
Since these learning tools are available for employees to access from the comfort of their homes, it has attracted the attention of learners and they are leveling up their ability to succeed at work.

virtual reality a trending learning strategy

 

Peer group elevation

It’s a fact that productivity increases with peer accountability. When learners form groups to learn a new skill, the social feature of interactive question-and-answer sessions, collaborative methods of knowledge sharing, are leading to successful results. People working remotely have acknowledged that these peer-to-peer learning engagements have built an increased sense of belongingness with the organization.

When employees feel a strong partnership with their workplace, they perform better, resulting in increased profit margins.

In a brief span, the pandemic has changed the way the world works, and its effects are here to stay. This has led companies to change their approach of hiring, training, and interacting with their employees and it will continue to transform in the years to come.

These top trends are shaping the future of learning and development and driving companies to establish new priorities. Now that you know this, let’s embrace these changes and plan a customized learning strategy that’s unique to your business. Ask us how. mike@p2linc.com

 

Games for Office Engagement and Motivation – P2L Recommends

Games for Office Engagement and Motivation – P2L Recommends

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P2L is one of the only businesses in the eLearning industry that combines games and modern teaching methodologies, and is actively developing gamification practices to work more enjoyable and engaging.

Numerous articles underline the importance of gamification theory. It is crucial to study and experience how such an everyday and enjoyable practice helps workers get engaged. It also contributes to building better leaders for the workplace of tomorrow.

Nonetheless, there are many cases where people have a general idea about the cruciality of the gamification eLearning process. And yet, they aren’t really aware of the specifics.

Therefore, P2L is here today to let you know some game theories and theme-based recommendations from our business, which will help you apply the same rules in your company and witness better results that you have ever seen. 

Wisdom Games

Please, pay close attention to this aspect of gamification theory.

Wisdom games aren’t about showcasing that some employers are more intelligent than others (because that’s not the point).

It’s more about showing people that they are constantly learning even through a fun gaming process on a Thursday or a Friday afternoon. They will always hear something new that they’ll have to keep in mind.

Examples of such games would be Checkers (we would advise the Chinese game), Heads-Up, Risk, etc.

Action Games

Let’s be honest at this particular point of the article. Your company’s people don’t want to feel like it’s another day at the office, especially when it’s time for the games to take place.

After being an intern and a worker myself for a long, long time, I’d suggest that the managers and the organizers would have to make the gamification day similar to a boarding night with some friends.

Long story short. Twister.

It might sound funny for people at an office to start stretching their legs and bringing their hands over another co-worker. At the same time, they have another person’s foot below their belly.

And yet, they will test natural endurance and their shape-making abilities. They will get a decisive break from the usual ‘9-to-5 in-front of a computer’ type of shift, and a lot of fun and laughs are guaranteed.

And yes, it’s groundbreaking; it’s innovative, it sounds crazy. But only the businesses that have this type of craziness are actually the ones that are different from the masses. 

Strategic Games 

Chess.

The Healthline website states that “Skilled chess players learn to anticipate an opponent’s next moves. To predict what another person will do next, a player must develop the ability to adopt another person’s perspective and infer what action they are likely to take. Behavioral scientists call this ability to see from another viewpoint the “theory of mind.”

It’s an ability that is essential to exercising empathy and building healthy social relationships. A 2019 study found that chess develops this perspective-taking ability in children who practice the game.”

Don’t you want your workers to compete with each other, have fun and at the same time sharpen their mental capacities?

If not, that’s great. But if you are someone who likes seeing people learning and having fun simultaneously, chess is a perfect strategy. Making a league for the workers who would like to participate would also be beneficial for developing mentalities of putting effort even in such little things.

Monopoly

You can call me biased all you want. I really don’t care. The fact that I have been playing this game since I was 6 doesn’t change my opinion.

I would have the same point of view even if I started playing this game yesterday.

From a business perspective, this is the best game that has ever been created in the history of the world. Amen!

You are more than invited to disagree, but the reality is that there’s only one game that teaches you the actual reality of business. How to handle money, make important financial or social decisions, communicate and make deals with counterparts.

Does this remind you of something? Because for me, this is the perfect depiction of the business world, which is the world that everyone lives in today; regardless of whether you chose it, or not.

Concluding remarks

There are two types of people in the business world.

The first one is the guy that is hungry for more. More work done, more money, and more clients. This is the same manager who thinks that gamification theory is just a crock that is being sold in the virtual world by certain companies who are out to make some money. He will believe that gamification will hinder growth. If the employees aren’t working 168 hours a week, this is a significant loss.

The second one is the guy that is hungry, but is patient at the same time. He wants more. More work done, more money, and more clients, but in the meantime, he is fully aware of the factoring in productivity. This is a factor that is strongly connected to the well-being of the company. 

People want to work and have fun simultaneously, and squeezing a period for games in the schedule isn’t such a big deal. Still, it’s also crucial for increasing productivity in the overall business.