Some businesses struggle on unifying their employees because of differences in ideologies, goals or departments. As your workforce grows, it may become even harder to unite them even through speeches or meetings. If you are having a hard time unifying your employees during working hours, you can try unifying them after working hours. With the rise of “MMORPG” (massive multiplayer online role playing games), you have an opportunity to unify your employees through a virtual online game.
MMORPG is not only for teenagers. There’s a steady rise of adults playing these games casually whenever they are free from work. This is like a godsend unification opportunity for business leaders as a way for improving relationships among co-workers. A popular MMORPG like World of Warcraft (WoW) might be the online game that gets the job done.
Make a guild and recruit all your employees to join. Pay for their online gaming fees and start building a better relationship with your men. Know more about your employees while questing and have them operate in groups to complete some game objectives or game events to improve relationships and teamwork. This is less costly than holding a trip or event that last only for a few days and more fun for you and your employees. Just try not to get too addicted to gaming.
If you need unification in your business, MMORPG might be the key. It is also a good way to further increase your presence and relationship with the men. The virtual realm is a great place to keep in touch with your employees while having fun.
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Wow that is a great idea, especially because it should take care of the awkwardness of typical ‘teamwork exercises.’
Perhaps we could create a “make-money-online bloggers” guild on there…
I like your post and I think it is a good idea. The only problem is if the employees got too addicted to the game to focus on work, LOL. I’m just kidding, I think its a good alternative to the usual parties and sports engagements. Anyway I just dropped by for the Entrecard and thanks for accepting my ad request. Have a great day!
Sucker- Haha, that would be cool =).
Louie- No problem, thanks for visiting =)!
First, I’m sure this artcile was meant for men and women however you only refer to it building teamwork among men.
But let’s move passed that, I think this is a realy great idea. We hold off-site outings and by the time we get everyone there and situated and reel in the staglers in etc is becomes more of a burdon then a team building gathering. I like the virtual team building idea. World of Warcraft seems to be a really popular game to play as well.
Great post as usual
Debo- to me men is like both genders because of men and wo”men”, I’m not sexist hehe. Thanks for the compliment =).
I like this post… using WoW or Second Life as a way to grab the interest of continually more and more disconnected workforces is a REALLY good idea. So long as your workforce is interested in these games.
For a traditional, multi-generational, large company, this might not work as well to get ALL employees “plugged-in,” but it would definitely help with the younger, computer-savvy, gaming employees.
Nice post!
Namaste,
Andrew
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Thanks Andrew. Yea it will definitely work better for the computer-savvy employees because they understand it more.
It’s interesting you wrote about this because this is exactly what we did in the first company I worked at out of college. I worked for a web development company in 2000 and none of us lived in the same city so we collaborated completely online. Our official company stress relief tool was Everquest. We would usually play for a few hours after work and had a great time cooperating on quests together and helping each other. Over all I think it helped us as a team because we were all sharing common goals.
That’s cool James. Back then Everquest was really popular! Even if you leave the company you can still network with them through Everquest and meet out sometimes. Is a win-win situation.
Uniting employees through mmorg
great concept
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