The Gamification Quest
Embark on an exciting journey to revolutionize corporate learning and development, employee onboarding, training, and adult classrooms with the dynamic world of gamification. Join us at 'The Gamification Quest,' where Sententia Gamification takes you on a captivating exploration of this cutting-edge strategy, designed to ignite motivation and engagement among employees, customers, and students. Our podcast features insightful conversations with leading experts in Learning and Development, Adult Education, and Platform Providers. Discover a treasure trove of actionable tips, tools, and techniques that you can implement immediately in your training programs, talent development leadership, and efforts to boost employee engagement. Unleash the power of gamification and level up your approach to education and training. Join the quest and put gamification to work for you!
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The Gamification Quest Podcast: StoriesWisdom.com
12/22/2023
The Gamification Quest Podcast: StoriesWisdom.com
In this episode, we meet Pradeep U.N., a masterful weaver of narratives and gameplay, turning organizations into vibrant ecosystems where storytelling, gamification, and social learning converge to unlock a symphony of inclusion, innovation, and purpose. About Your Host: Monica Cornetti works with individuals and organizations like yours who want to learn how to think playfully to change behaviors and achieve objectives. A gamification speaker and designer, Monica was repeatedly rated #1 among the “Gamification Gurus Power 100” by RISE from 2015-2020, and in 2021 and 2022 was recognized as #1 in the Most Influential Women in Gamification who have created a legitimate impact in the gamification industry. Monica is the President of Sententia, Inc. and leads the company’s education and design projects at Sententia Gamification. She is also the Gamemaster of GamiCon (annual international conferences for the gamification of learning). She is the author of the books Lipstick Lessons, What Were You Thinking?, Totally Awesome Training Activities Guide: Put Gamification to Work for You, and co-author of Deliberate Fun: A Purposeful Application of Game Mechanics to Learning Experiences.
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Artrell Williams: Taiyazukuri – A Tire Manufacturing Card Game
12/05/2023
Artrell Williams: Taiyazukuri – A Tire Manufacturing Card Game
My guest is Artrell Williams and our topic is Taiyazukuri – A Tire Manufacturing Card Game that teaches tire manufacturing processes and terminology, fostering understanding through descriptions. It imparts Sumitomo Rubber USA’s Mission, Vision, Values, and KPI impact on business. The deck serves multiple purposes, reinforcing key concepts for SRUSA staff to grasp the value stream, communicate discrepancies, and cut manufacturing waste costs. At the GamiCon event in NOLA in September, Artrell's project was awarded the People’s Choice Award for “Low-Tech Design" – that’s quite the accomplishment to win the hearts of your peers. Artrell Williams is a Presenter, Facilitator and Trainer with a passion for helping others grow and develop. Seeking additional opportunities for civic involvement. His areas of expertise include: Soft Skills Training, Sales and Sales Training, Customer Service Training, Coaching, Mentoring, and Humor. About Your Host: Monica Cornetti works with individuals and organizations like yours who want to learn how to think playfully to change behaviors and achieve objectives. A gamification speaker and designer, Monica was repeatedly rated #1 among the “Gamification Gurus Power 100” by RISE from 2015-2020, and in 2021 and 2022 was recognized as #1 in the Most Influential Women in Gamification who have created a legitimate impact in the gamification industry. Monica is the President of and leads the company’s education and design projects at Sententia Gamification. She is also the Gamemaster of (annual international conferences for the gamification of learning). She is the author of the books Lipstick Lessons, What Were You Thinking?, Totally Awesome Training Activities Guide: Put Gamification to Work for You, and co-author of Deliberate Fun: A Purposeful Application of Game Mechanics to Learning Experiences.
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Create a Cyber Security Escape Room
11/22/2023
Create a Cyber Security Escape Room
My guests are Jamie Phillips, Celia Sellers, and Rebecca Arnett, and our topic is Creating a Cyber Security Escape Room. In this innovative Cyber Security Escape Room event, participants raced against time to thwart a hacker using social engineering, phishing, malware, and more. Designed for the curious, puzzle-loving, adventurous, and competitive, this team-based challenge involved solving 15 cybersecurity puzzles. It encouraged team building and social interaction, with participants either forming groups or being assigned to teams. Key game mechanics included achievement rewards like stickers and photos, advance priming through storytelling videos, communal discoveries, puzzle guessing, unlocking sequences, and strategic use of hints. The fastest team earned recognition and a certificate. The goal was to reinforce training on critical human risks in cybersecurity. Host: Monica Cornetti works with individuals and organizations like yours who want to learn how to think playfully to change behaviors and achieve objectives. A gamification speaker and designer, Monica was repeatedly rated #1 among the “Gamification Gurus Power 100” by RISE from 2015-2020, and in 2021 and 2022 was recognized as #1 in the Most Influential Women in Gamification who have created a legitimate impact in the gamification industry. Monica is the President of Sententia, Inc. and leads the company’s education and design projects at Sententia Gamification. She is also the Gamemaster of GamiCon (annual international conferences for the gamification of learning). She is the author of the books Lipstick Lessons, What Were You Thinking?, Totally Awesome Training Activities Guide: Put Gamification to Work for You, and co-author of Deliberate Fun: A Purposeful Application of Game Mechanics to Learning Experiences.
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An Award-Winning, Game-Based Solution to Organization Culture
11/14/2023
An Award-Winning, Game-Based Solution to Organization Culture
My guests are Jordan Dyson and Scott Provence and topic is their internationally award-winning project called Walk With Me. A wealth management firm was looking for ways to improve their organizational culture and address risks of declining client-service quality. Jordan and Scott created a two-step, game-based solution for this client: first, employees played a turn-based conversation game with an AI-powered chatbot that and then attended a live 50-minute debrief session where they learned about key empathetic behaviors, discussed their experiences. The program results showed double-digit improvement in evidence-based empathizing skills and participant mindset. Not only were employees exhibiting more empathetic behaviors in conversation, but their beliefs around their potential to enhance these abilities also saw measurable improvement over the course of the program. About Your Host: Monica Cornetti works with individuals and organizations like yours who want to learn how to think playfully to change behaviors and achieve objectives. A gamification speaker and designer, Monica was repeatedly rated #1 among the “Gamification Gurus Power 100” by RISE from 2015-2020, and in 2021 and 2022 was recognized as #1 in the Most Influential Women in Gamification who have created a legitimate impact in the gamification industry. Monica is the President of Sententia, Inc. and leads the company’s education and design projects at Sententia Gamification. She is also the Gamemaster of GamiCon (annual international conferences for the gamification of learning). She is the author of the books Lipstick Lessons, What Were You Thinking?, Totally Awesome Training Activities Guide: Put Gamification to Work for You, and co-author of Deliberate Fun: A Purposeful Application of Game Mechanics to Learning Experiences.
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Gamification for Product Excellence with Mike Hyzy and Bret Wardle
11/08/2023
Gamification for Product Excellence with Mike Hyzy and Bret Wardle
My guests are Bret Wardle and Michael Hyzy, and our topic is their book titled, Gamification for Product Excellence. After years of leading product strategy, management, and development, Mike realized gamification could be the ultimate game-changer for creating engaging products. Seeing an opportunity to share this powerful concept, he channeled his insights into his first book, Gamification for Product Excellence. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Bret is a seasoned Game/Software professional with over 15 years of experience in crafting immersive games, innovative software, and user-friendly apps. His passion lies in bridging the realms of design psychology in both gaming and software landscapes. About Your Host: Monica Cornetti works with individuals and organizations like yours who want to learn how to think playfully to change behaviors and achieve objectives. A gamification speaker and designer, Monica was repeatedly rated #1 among the “Gamification Gurus Power 100” by RISE from 2015-2020, and in 2021 and 2022 was recognized as #1 in the Most Influential Women in Gamification who have created a legitimate impact in the gamification industry. Monica is the President of and leads the company’s education and design projects at Sententia Gamification. She is also the Gamemaster of (annual international conferences for the gamification of learning). She is the author of the books Lipstick Lessons, What Were You Thinking?, Totally Awesome Training Activities Guide: Put Gamification to Work for You, and co-author of Deliberate Fun: A Purposeful Application of Game Mechanics to Learning Experiences.
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Bernardo Letayf and Roman Rackwitz: 2023 GamiCon48V Pre-Conference Podcast
10/18/2023
Bernardo Letayf and Roman Rackwitz: 2023 GamiCon48V Pre-Conference Podcast
Bernardo Letayf and Roman Rackwitz are renowned gamification experts on the cutting edge of innovation with their latest project, TABI. With a passion for merging gaming principles with various fields, they bring extensive expertise to the world of technology and engagement. TABI, their groundbreaking software, promises to revolutionize user experiences, education, and employee motivation. Through gamified solutions, Rackwitz and Letayf aim to enhance engagement and productivity in diverse domains. Their podcast interview offers valuable insights into their visionary work, shedding light on how TABI is poised to reshape the way we interact with technology and engage with content. Hosted by Monica Cornetti: Monica works with individuals and organizations like yours who want to learn how to think playfully to change behaviors and achieve objectives. She is the President of and leads the company’s education and design projects at Sententia Gamification. She is also the Gamemaster of (annual international conferences for the gamification of learning). Monica is the author of the books Lipstick Lessons; What Were You Thinking?; Totally Awesome Training Activities Guide: Put Gamification to Work for You; and co-author of Deliberate Fun: A Purposeful Application of Game Mechanics to Learning Experiences. Monica is hired for her skill as a gamification speaker and strategist and she and her company Sententia Gamification are considered at the top of the field in gamified and game-based learning design for corporate training and adult education.
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Jim Piechocki - Gamifying Amazon AI
08/02/2022
Jim Piechocki - Gamifying Amazon AI
In the case of the project that is the topic of today’s podcast, Jim Piechocki woke up a dreadfully dull IT classification process training with a post-apocalyptic superhero story he had pitched years ago to Marvel about The Technicals, an alien race that takes over and outsources Earth. The gameplay: You must learn how to create a keyword class to rescue Amazon and save the planet. About our Guest: Jim is a member of a small but growing breed of ATD-licensed developers who start with the acting talent, the humor, the broadcast-quality imagery, and entertainment value. He worked as a gag-writer for comic Tim Allen in Detroit, who taught him how to pare down physical comedy and dialog for maximum impact. His writing teachers Harlan Ellison and Walter Hill (The Terminator, 48 Hours) drilled into him the importance of getting it right in the first draft. Working on staff for Filmation on the He-Man and The Masters of the Universe cartoon TV series, he learned the writer actually directs the animation. And he has found that everything from Greek, Roman, Viking and Indian mythology, can provide ongoing inspiration for gamified learning.
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Monica Cornetti: The Imagineering Magic of Disney
04/11/2022
Monica Cornetti: The Imagineering Magic of Disney
Walt Disney assembled a new category of designers, engineers, and artisans called Imagineers. These daring creators continue to balance their technical design chops with imagination, storytelling, and insatiable curiosity. Their blue-sky thinking has resulted in parks, shows, rides, cruise ships, and resorts that don’t just contain stories like a stage in a theater but actively tell those stories. Not a bad goal for your next training program. How can you use the imagineering pyramid in your course design and delivery?
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Augusta University: The AU Victory Cup
03/16/2022
Augusta University: The AU Victory Cup
As part of a bigger effort to offer an asynchronous, summer faculty development program, the Center for Instructional Innovation at Augusta University developed a 2-part, 6-week program on Multimedia and Motivation in Student Learning. The first half of the program was a 3-week course on the Science of Motivation and Game-Based Learning. The course was NASCAR or stock car race themed with 68 faculty members being divided into “pit crews” of 5 members. Each week (lap) presented the Pit Crews with content and “driving missions” that supported broader learning objectives. About our Guest: Jeff Mastromonico has been teaching, developing multimedia, and working in instructional design in the higher ed space for over 20 years. He currently is the Director of the Center for Instructional Innovation at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia. He has a Masters of Education in Educational Technology from the University of South Carolina and a second-level certification in Gamification from Sententia. Lynsey Steinberg is one of the 300 board-certified medical illustrators. Lynsey graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Masters of Science degree from the Medical College of Georgia and earned her board certification in 2016. Lynsey has been able to experience hands-on surgery in the operating room, develop virtual reality, 3D printing, animation, gamification, and graphic design while working directly with students, faculty, and staff. As a team member, she believes in creating engaging work with a passion for creative problem solving through collaboration, inspiration, and innovation.
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Tracey Stokely: Using Escape Rooms for New Hire Programs
01/12/2022
Tracey Stokely: Using Escape Rooms for New Hire Programs
Paycor wanted an exciting experience to enhance their new hire program. Tracey created a wildly popular escape room game to review their day’s content and promote teamwork.
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Fernando Mendes: Gaminar
12/08/2021
Fernando Mendes: Gaminar
With the pandemic, facilitator-led corporate training was pushed to virtual platforms and many companies and freelances were not equipped to deliver experiential learning online.
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What Does it Take to Create an Award-Winning Program?
10/11/2021
What Does it Take to Create an Award-Winning Program?
Many GamiCon participants care about awards and would like to have the prestige that comes with winning an award. But how do you know if your gamified learning solution is award-worthy?
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Darryn Van Den Berg
10/11/2021
Darryn Van Den Berg
A Player Journey can be used to guide players towards specific goals and deciding which journey you want to send players on is only the start.
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David Castañeda Pardo and Lina M. Parra Ante
10/11/2021
David Castañeda Pardo and Lina M. Parra Ante
How can you use a motivation driver’s perspective to test your game designs in a more integrative way?
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Scott Provence: Why Villains Always Lose
10/11/2021
Scott Provence: Why Villains Always Lose
Ever wonder why genius supervillains fail to take over the world? In this session, use game-play and business-based research to accomplish your own version of world domination.
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Hadiya Nuriddin
: Choose your Fighter
10/10/2021
Hadiya Nuriddin
: Choose your Fighter
Including compelling characters in your games creates opportunities for fostering a sense of connection, empathy, ownership, and meaning for learners while they experience the narrative you designed.
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Mahesh Joshi: A Client’s Request
09/22/2021
Mahesh Joshi: A Client’s Request
A client asked Mahesh Joshi if he could gamify a one-day seminar to generate greater interest in the material. The resultant product is a card game—BiggieBills—is a patented, interactive, and dynamic strategic thinking game. In this episode, Mahesh and Monica walk through the process from the first request to the implementation of the gamified program and iterations along the way.
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Deirdre Jensen - Scenario-Based Learning and Gamification
08/10/2021
Deirdre Jensen - Scenario-Based Learning and Gamification
And our topic today is centered on highly engaging and effective projects that Deirdre and her team have created for clients. We’re going to explore together - How Scenario-Based Learning and Gamification are Great Partners for High Impact Learning.
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Jimbo Clark - Thinking Out of the Virtual Training Box
06/15/2021
Jimbo Clark - Thinking Out of the Virtual Training Box
Covid-19 brought tremendous disruption to the world of physical corporate training. Jimbo Clark tells us how he took a course that required participants to construct a physical box, and pivoted it to being a digital experience that was just as engaging. He shares lessons learned from this experience so you can avoid going through the same growing pains.
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Eric Nelson - School is in: Gamification Schoolhouse
05/11/2021
Eric Nelson - School is in: Gamification Schoolhouse
Eric Nelson, has taught for a total of 26 year in countries such as The Marshall Islands, Taiwan, India, Korea, and Vietnam. He joins us to explore how gamification can be used to tackle tricky classroom problems, create alternates to traditional letter grades, and assess content mastery in new ways. Monica and Eric tackle the unique challenges facing teachers in the age of Covid, and how gamification can ease some of these growing pains.
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Tim Dickerson - Start Dirty Stay Dirty
03/11/2021
Tim Dickerson - Start Dirty Stay Dirty
Tim Dickerson is like many Sententia learners (roughly 50% if you want a number), he ended up in instructional design by happenstance more than choice. In this episode Monica and Tim talk about what particular gems of gamification wisdom were the most meaningful to him, and why you should rush to failure as fast as possible.
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Richard Vass - How to Make Rockstar E-Learning
11/04/2020
Richard Vass - How to Make Rockstar E-Learning
Our topic today is what Richard and eLearning Brothers do best - Help You to Become an eLearning ROCKSTAR™ - help you build content that is engaging, interactive, and inspiring. You can see an example of ROCKSTAR eLearning if you download the case study at thegamificationquest.com Gamified Workplace Safety & Emergency Training. Team members report that the new training is the most fun compliance training they have ever completed.
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Game-Based-Learning in Practice
10/08/2020
Game-Based-Learning in Practice
Use the Game Based Learning Design Wheel, which combines the scientific principles of learning theories, game design, and theories of motivation and behavior into a practical model to design gamification solutions that contribute to learning. Developed to design serious games for learning, Michiel and Karen will take you through the process of making your own serious game or gamification for your adult education or training program in 9 clear steps.
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Javier Velasquez - Gamification Feedback, Rules, and Loops
09/25/2020
Javier Velasquez - Gamification Feedback, Rules, and Loops
Gamification designs for learning should use the full potential of feedback rules and feedback loops. Feedback is key in game design not just to direct behavior, but also to give discernable cues to the players on their performance and aspects to improve. A good gamification design knows to nudge behavior, but great gamification design creates meaningful learning cycles that use multiple feedback rules. These feedback systems can create loops that accrue and relate to meaningful rewards or game outcomes.
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Bernardo Letayf - Map a Player Journey
09/18/2020
Bernardo Letayf - Map a Player Journey
Why is a player journey such an essential part of gamified instruction? Bernardo is joining us to promote his player journey creation workshop that he will give at Gamicon 2020. Learn how a well crafted player journey will reward mastery, as well as how to balance an extrinsic rewards system. Should everyone get a trophy?
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Victoria Ichizli-Bartels - Practice Self-Gamification
08/13/2020
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels - Practice Self-Gamification
Practice Self-Gamification or we could turn that title into How to Play the “Turn Your Life into Fun Games” Game. You are going to appreciate the program today as you learn how and why to turn your life into a game. Why would you do that? When you no longer focus on upsets and complaints, you save an enormous amount of time.
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Marilyn Zwissler - The Great Art Quest
07/20/2020
Marilyn Zwissler - The Great Art Quest
An art history course developed for Alverno College based on a challenge to save art works of five ancient cultures from oblivion and thereby save the memory of those cultures.
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Jean Marrapodi - GamiCon Throwdown Judging
07/19/2020
Jean Marrapodi - GamiCon Throwdown Judging
Gamicon head judge Jean Marrapodi walks us through the Gamicon Project Throwdown competition, the creation of a comprehensive rubric for that competition, and the difference that it made.
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Masha Sedova - Hacker's Mind
04/27/2020
Masha Sedova - Hacker's Mind
Hacker’s Mind by Elevate Security gamifies the security training process resulting in employees who understand their importance in securing your organization. Turn every employee into a security superhero, and equip the organization to succeed against today’s people-centered risk.
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Monica Cornetti - Six Keys to Successfully Gamify Your Next Webinar
03/20/2020
Monica Cornetti - Six Keys to Successfully Gamify Your Next Webinar
If you're in HR, Corporate Training, or a Teacher, webinars offer an inexpensive (free) alternative to live, instructor-led sessions. If you are a business owner or a marketer. webinars are an effective way for you to get publicity and increase sales.
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