Is Your Professional Development Content Just Checking A Box?
How much of your organization’s most precious resources (time and money) go into professional development? Good organizations understand...
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the science of play at work
- May 31
- 2 min
Why Experiential Learning Is A Perfect Match for Games
Do you remember having to sit in a classroom, bored out of your mind while a teacher lectured? Or think of the last time you had a work...
- May 4
- 2 min
Why You Can’t Solve Your Culture Crisis With AI
Have you heard the buzz about AI? It’s everywhere. AI, or artificial intelligence bots like ChatGPT, Bard AI, Bing AI, Jasper AI, and a...
- Apr 12
- 2 min
Cultivate Shared Purpose For Olympic-Level Team Performance
Have you ever seen an Olympic rowing team in action? Every team member works together, their actions are smooth, focused, and shooting...
- Mar 23
- 2 min
How You Can Use Games To Dramatically Improve Employee Engagement
We’re a quarter of the way into 2023! So it’s time to take a look at how your company is doing with one of the biggest challenges...
- Feb 16
- 2 min
Are You Using Onboarding To Retain Your Top Talent?
Are you worried about keeping your top talent? Today’s talent landscape is competitive…but you already knew that. In fact, if you’re like...
- Feb 2
- 2 min
The Secret to Turning Toxic Culture into Thriving Culture
Bad culture is like vulgarity: “you know it when you see it.” Unfortunately in today’s workplace, it’s much more common for the saying to...
- Jan 27
- 2 min
The One Key To Getting Your Employee Development To Stick
How much do you usually spend on employee development and education? It’s a lot, right? Think about that number. Really feel into it. You...
- Jan 4
- 3 min
To Be a Great Leader, Make It About The Journey, Not The Destination
Happy New Year! With 2023 now underway, it’s time for individuals and businesses alike to make resolutions, set goals, and reflect on the...
- Dec 12, 2022
- 3 min
How Do You Increase Productivity? The Answer May Surprise You
Are your employees being productive? If your answer is “ehhh,” you’re not alone. According to the Washington Post article “U.S. workers...
- Nov 16, 2022
- 3 min
Is the Surgeon General Warning about YOUR Workplace Culture?
Move over, tobacco warnings - there’s a new issue in town. In October, the US Surgeon General issued a 30-page report titled, “Framework...
- Nov 9, 2022
- 4 min
How Sliding Doors Moments Can Give Us Better Outcomes
Do you ever wonder how different your life would be if you’d taken a slightly different path? A potentially pivotal moment that...
- Aug 23, 2022
- 4 min
Why Working with Other People Is So Hard, and How to Get Better At It!
Why is it so freakin’ difficult to communicate and collaborate with other people? We’re social animals. Communicating and collaborating...
- Jul 21, 2022
- 2 min
The One Thing Earthquakes Can Teach Leaders About Managing Team Pressure
For decades, conventional wisdom went something like this: Work is work. Personal life is personal. Mental and emotional wellbeing are...
- Jul 6, 2022
- 2 min
3 Simple Steps to Boost Engagement in Remote Teams
We’ve reached the point where it’s almost a cliche to talk about how hard it is to make meaningful connections with colleagues through...
- Jun 30, 2022
- 4 min
Pressure, Meet Play: A Guide to Picking the Right Game (Part III)
A great team creates more value than the sum of its individual parts. To achieve this status, we must set up each individual for success....
- Jun 23, 2022
- 4 min
Pressure, Meet Play: A Guide to Picking the Right Game (Part II)
In the first part of this series, we covered the Leadership Diagonal of our Pressure Matrix – 3 pressure points commonly found in teams...
- Jun 14, 2022
- 4 min
Pressure, Meet Play: A Guide to Picking the Right Game (Part I)
The first of a three-part series to help you pick the right game for your team Have you ever wished that you had a crystal ball to...
- Jun 2, 2022
- 3 min
Gamifying Responsibility
Simple solutions to strengthen your team and culture During the past few years organizations have been dealing with a lot of employee...
- May 25, 2022
- 2 min
How We Created the Pressure Matrix (And How It Can Help You Be An Effective Manager)
Over the last year, the team at BarometerXP has been refining a core philosophy around the concept of pressure… In science, barometers...
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