Contests

How do you get people to change?

People do what they're rewarded for.

Inspire people of every stripe: staff, clients, students, leaders, stakeholders, and volunteers—to achieve new levels of understanding and innovation with a contest.

Managers and Staff: Let regional groups compete to innovatively apply new knowledge to solve today's problems:

Challenge staff and emerging leaders to acquire cutting edge knowledge
Give college credit for corporate/industry training (optional certificate)
Design pratice applications to drive down costs & create new solutions

Clients and Volunteers: Create quick puzzles to entice clients to learn more about what you do and how it adds value.

Stakeholders: Provide concise case studies with solution options that interatively showcase your accomplishments.

Leaders: Induce not just succession planning but succession practice with performance goals and rewards.

Students: Small rewards can inspire big changes in thinking and productivity motivating students to solve real-world problems.

Contests Inspire Great Results for:

Onboarding	Roll Outs (s/w, program, process)	Cohort Building
Problem Solving	Applying New Knowledge	Process Improvement
Succession Planning & Practice	Online Job Resources	Workforce Development

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Onboarding

We employ the latest research on successful onboarding to create fun and productive introductions for new hires. Whether new to working or new to your organization, swap the glassy-eyed info-blitz for smiley, exciting mini-contests that introduce the best about joining your people in the work that you do.

Roll Outs

Whether you're switching software, introducing new programs, or improving processes, adding a contest can help engage your workforce. Following the equation:

Fun

Objections

helps perfuse the message and alleviate complaints. This leads to:

Fun

Objections → ↑ Speed to Success

Cohort Building

Digital dialog is the communication de riguer for today's up and comers. Construct cohorts to harvest their penchant for online informal learning. Then add contests to foster new thinking about how to succeed as professionals and get the job done right.

Problem Solving

Sometimes solutions to the hardest problems are right under your nose. Prompt fresh ideas and generate solutions from across your workforce with a simple contest and a tasty reward.

Engage → Inspire → Challenge → Recognize & Reward

It works! And it's cheaper than consultants!

Applying New Knowledge

The missing link for so many training initiatives is insufficient practice of new learning. Overcome that with a contest to solve actual problems facing your organization or clients. Dangling a small "carrot" can motivate groups or cohorts to grab on to what they've just been taught and hammer out an original way to lower costs, increase productivity, or meet customer needs.

Process Improvement

Stuck in a rut? Stymied in your revenue generation? Unfetter your ways by launching a contest to design a better "process" mousetrap. Surprising fixes can result and previously unrecognized future leaders may emerge.

Success Planning and Practice

It's not enough to figure out who'll replace someone who leaves. They need to know how to do that job. Reduce ramp-up time in new positions by inspiring coaching and mentoring to desired outcomes with a contest. Make sure that people can practice what has been preached!

Online Job Resources

A great secret to boosting competency is positioning job aids and other resources online. But how do you get people to use them? Create contests like Checklist Champion, Job Aid Giant, and Most Resourceful to see huge increases in accessing digital tools.

Workforce Development

Add spark to training programs and spice to individual career growth by offering a fun and easy contest. Keeping competitive might be deadly serious but learning and professional development don't have to be. Prime your investment for success by encouraging positive attitudes and the expectation of increased value for everyone.