The G-Factor: Evolution of Game-based Training Techniques in the Corporate World

The modern businesses have become more focused on the overall employee productivity outcomes to measure their achievements of goals and objectives. The fact that a regular learning and development of their employees is integral to the organizational growth has been best realized by many. People in leadership roles always try to keep their peers and subordinates best engaged with the affairs of the organization.

The recent trend in learning and development - that of imparting game-based employee engagement training has been accepted highly by the businesses all across the Globe. Do we infer this phenomenon as a mere ‘fad’? Or, should we really consider it as a ‘Game Changer’?

As per the recent trends, most organizations agree that the game-based training have brought upon favorable changes in the working style of their employees who have attended such employee engagement training modules.

Let us briefly look at the key factors that enable incremental employee motivation and an eventual engagement with the organizational matters:

•           Competition
•           Collaboration
•           On-boarding
•           Transparency
•           Goal setting and achievement
•            Fair and fast feedback mechanism

During one such program when the employee engagement trainer in Jaipur explained on an important rule of the ‘game play’. The participation has to be voluntary and never forced or imposed upon. There are three ‘consent’ factors that make a game-based training achieving success:

•             Fully recognizing the game as truly existing and paying attention to it
•            Understand the rules and realize the purpose of the game
•             Looking at the game to be just and fair for all

According to most corporate trainers of employee engagement training program, it is very important for the leadership to emulate the following key points which contribute highly in encouraging a lot of motivation for the participants and help them spread the word:

•           Unstinted and committed support
•       Clarity on end-purposes and the rules
•       Appropriate rewards system

There is a lot more to learn in the corporate training program on the aspects of employee engagement conducted by India’s best employee engagement trainer, Mr. Vivek Bindra. A successful entrepreneur and an eminent author, Mr. Vivek Bindra is best known for his unique and incredible methods that he applies in his training programs. He has served to the corporate training programs of more than 100 top-notch corporate businesses spread across the Globe.

To know more about Mr. Vivek Bindra’s corporate training portfolio, kindly visit his official and personal website or send an e-mail today itself!

The true ingredients that make an effective Team Building Training!

As such, TEAM BUILDING is a cooperative expression of various activities that indicate defined strategic roles within specific teams besides enhancement of societal relations. One will find numerous experts on team building matters planning and devising training as per the needs and wants of the specific groups identified for one such training.

Usually, a best team building trainer always includes the following primary aspects:

•          Bringing about the clarity on ROLE for each Team member
•          Conceiving effectual solutions to the Team’s issues and problems
•          Building consequential workplace affiliations
•          Bring the Team members on the similar platform of management in purview of the organizational goals

Team Building Training is actively and seriously used by the organizations representing various businesses across the Globe today.

The following four approaches describe a ball best hit towards Green!

•         Role Clarification
•          Goal Setting (including the purpose)
•          Inter-personal Relations – Building & Improving
•          Problem Solving

Two major challenges that any team building trainer in South Asia or in any part of the World may come across are:

ð  Diverse Workplace Environment and Cultures – Dissimilar languages and Cultural flairs often create obstacles, however planned one-to-one meetings and face-to-face communications are the best solutions available

ð  Lack of ‘Orientation’ besides Team-working skills – An ignorant attitude braced with lack of collaborative orientation and skills present highest degrees of challenge to the Team leaders! Some well-planned TEAM TRAINING are reported to yield effective outcomes.

You get to know a lot more in a live-wire corporate training session on TEAM BUILDING conducted by one of most praised and highly respected corporate trainer par excellence – Mr. Vivek Bindra.

He is a renowned and prominent motivational speaker who is also a successful businessperson and an author of great prominence. His management books that are based on the ‘shlokas’ (verses) of the legendary Indian manuscript – The “Bhagavad Gita” have been read and admired by many people across the Globe.

To get in touch with Mr. Vivek Bindra, write an e-mail or dial +91-981 054 4443 right now!

The Great TURN ONs and TURN OFFs of the Employee Engagement!

Any manager/leader would be scared of leading an unproductive, de-motivated, and disengaged team. A renowned employee engagement trainer, Mr. Vivek Bindra agrees with the universal survey report which mentions the statistics of the engaged and disengaged employees. He says that similar to the situation of the businesses where 10% - 12% employees are the ‘driving’ force and rest are the ‘passengers’, the ratio %age of the engaged employees in the businesses is the same – about 12% to 13%. Remaining others are simply disengaged!

These stats may scare the leaders/managers even more. The corporate businesses have realized the importance of getting their leadership people trained for engaging their peers and subordinates to the fullest and derive the best outcomes in terms of productivity.

An eminent author of numerous management principle books and a highly respected International motivational speaker, Mr. Vivek Bindra suggests the following Great TURN ONs and TURN OFFs of the employee engagement:

J      A ‘Connect’ with the self and the soul!

If an employee gets to believe in self-belongingness with the workplace, the dedication and commitments levels leap to new highs. Good managers always try to solicit/invite ideas for every team member and showers loads of appreciation upon every idea generated, no matter whether the same is implementable or not!

J      Becoming an ‘ally’ in “Mission Happiness”!

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in a prescribed manner, however acknowledging the employees on regular intervals, acts as a little ‘pep-talk’ that fuels their work involvement greatly!

J      ‘Feel @ Home’ dwells another City of Rome!

A great enthusiasm shown by the employees to reach workplace is much suggestive of their self-connect with the overall ambiance and the environment of the workplace. The managers who ingredient some moments of fun and frolic in the office get to see happier and performing workforce!

J      R & R sublimes!

Leaders who ensure a timely and unbiased felicitation of rewards and recognition without ignoring or overlooking any deserving employees have always been rewarded in return! Their such moves which motivate the employees to enhance their productivity usually result in augmented outcomes for the managers, who in turn stand to rap double benefits coming fro both their superiors as well as from their subordinates!

J      The ‘Forward Leap’!

Every employee who gets to properly understand the roadmap of both vertical and horizontal career growths is bound to go ‘all-out’ and break all records of performances, perhaps!

Similar to the above Great TURN ONs, sophisticated leaders are also watchful about the Great TURN OFFs too. These contribute greatly to detract engaged employees.

L  The ‘Broken Pillars’!

Unsupportive and unhelpful behavioral patterns of the management and leadership are the sure shot factors that instigate employee turn offs and eventual disengagements!

L     Negative ‘spillage’ at work place!

Stressful and Oppressive work environment adds more fire to the process of disengagement for many souls. Hence, the leadership people should always look out for some ‘crack’s in the wall and place fillers appropriately.

As a management leader, if you are worried about your workforce disengagement issues, you have a wonderful opportunity to get your managers and leaders trained to better handle their subordinates causes of woes and ensure their best productivity coming in.

You can utilize the services of one of the best corporate trainers in India today – Mr. Vivek Bindra. A celebrated and highly respected name in the World of Learning and Development, Mr. Vivek Bindra has trained more than 10,000 employees and motivated more than half a million people to step ahead and change their lives!

A Content Overview of Team Building Training

With the continuous evolving business environment, every business wants its workforce to be well- equipped in terms of skills and knowledge applicable to their assigned jobs. However, as all five fingers are not same, often some team mates of the workforce do not match the progression steps of development set by the organization due to various reasons.

To calibrate the dormant or inactive status of certain ‘passenger’ employees, business seek the support of a specialist ‘Team Building’ trainer who can provide a variety of courseware on Team Building.

A multi-faceted and a seasoned trainer is adept in delivering such team building training which cater to the different needs of different businesses for the varying hierarchical levels of employees. Some training content are more interactive and some are more oriented towards teaching theoretical concepts. Some such courses on ‘Team Building’ are designed for upcoming leaders and some are specifically framed to improve the performance levels of the entire existing team.

Such courseware can be both standalone or channelized in content nature, however they are primarily conceptualized with the following key management elements:

•          Behavioral aspects
•          Communication flowchart
•          Awareness of self and others
•          Levels of morale
•          Roles in the job
•          Goals – of self, others and the self’s organization
•          Special Strategic activities

The four most popular ‘Team Building’ courses that are much demanded by the corporate businesses are:

•          Team Development and Sustainability
•          Theories of ‘Team Building’
•          Leadership Strategies for building an effective TEAM
•          The Key elements of TEAM Dynamics

Business Heads and Organizational Heads who wish their subordinate and/or peer team members to undergo ‘Team Building’ activities and training can safely rely on the corporate training programs conducted by Mr. Vivek Bindra a multi-faceted corporate trainer with extraordinary capabilities.

Mr. Vivek Bindra has trained employees of more than 100 top-notch corporate businesses representing various industrial segments across the globe. His sheer energy and positivity brims his audiences with great amounts of morale and self-confidence that is finally translated into enhanced outcomes at their work place.

To contact Mr. Vivek Bindra, you may e-mail your details or visit his website and furnish your details there. You may also dial (+91) 98105-44443 right now!

Active Listening: The Best Way to Win Hearts!

Have you ever wondered that why we have two ears and only one mouth? Mr. Mark Twain once replied to this. He said – “This is because God knew that listening was twice as hard as talking!” Today active listening holds a great importance across all levels of hierarchy in every organization. Often poor listening leads to terrible situations of conflict in an office. Developing good listening skills is one of the most important skill development aspects that organizations intend their employees to imbibe and practice.

Significance of Active Listening

Active listening enables a person to clearly understand and connect properly with another person. This greatly assists in gaining him the trust and the confidence of the person who is speaking. Take the case of a patient talking to his doctor. Unless the doctor hears out the problems faced by his patient, he will not be able to diagnose the problem and accordingly prescribe the appropriate medicines. A wrong diagnose can cause even a fatality and raise doubts on the credibility and professional skills of the doctor!

Categories of Listening

Ability to ‘filter’ vital information, ability to focus and enthusiasm levels of the listener are the factors that broadly decide the categories of listening. These are:

a)      Hearing – Means hearing sounds without focusing on anything else

b)      Simple listening – This mainly represents only the physical presence of a listener

c)      Active listening – The best situation where the listener is aptly present both physically and mentally

Barriers to active listening

Even if one decides to practice active listening, some natural and self-imposed barriers emerge to spoil the party. 

a)      Forcing others to listen first and speak later

b)      Listening to multiple people simultaneously

c)      Not updated with previous conversations

d)      Rapid/Slow flow of communication from the speaker

e)      Distractions like nearby conversations, running TV or radio etc.

M/s Global Academy of Consulting & Training conducts specific and need-based skill development training programs for individual professionals and organizations. The module-based training program on “Business Communication” covers such important facets of listening skills. For more information on this and other training programs, simply log onto http://globalact.in or write to info@vivkbindra.com.

Soft in Attitude Strong in Trust

No job on this earth is problem-free. No two jobs are same nor the associated problems. But what is common is the three basic assumptions:

·         People are different.

·         Life is complex.

·         No one is perfect.

 The CorporateTraining in India has to address the crux of the whole issue which is the ‘Attitude’.  Attitude is everything, Business speakers and Leadership trainers say that if they have to choose a team based solely on one criteria, then that would be choosing people on the basis of their ‘Attitude’.

People with the right attitude are keen to learn new skills. On the hand people with really great skills and a bad attitude can create a lot of problems. Even such people with wrong or negative attitude are difficult for the motivational speakers to handle. Changing someone’s attitude is difficult unless the person is willing to do so. To find out whether you have the right attitude and believe in the "teamwork culture," you should ask yourself few questions like mentioned below:

·         How do you feel about your job?

·         How do you feel about your company?

·         How do you feel about your team?

The above questions can be used by the HR professionals to gauge the strength of their team.

People with positive attitude are able to win their colleagues and seniors’ trust. Colleagues who have an established sense of trust with one another are likely to create a strong COMMUNICATION or support system and will be positioned to effectively to collaborate or pull together important elements of the project necessary for success.