Arbejdsglaede: The Word For Joy at Work

Arbejdsglaede: The Word For Joy at Work
Gamification Co - Concourse Exhibition Center
ON-DEMAND ONLY
You get paid for that? Is it possible to have fun in a large corporate setting? Can joy be brought into the workplace? For the last few years we have been conducting an informal social experiment utilizing gamification (before we knew what it was) in our corporate training modules to encourage participation, engagement and enjoyment. Along the way we discovered that what we were doing was not only an effective training method, but also had a name: arbejdsglaede. Arbejdsglaede is a Scandinavian term for happiness at work. Happiness leads to greater productivity, health, creativity and success at work. While the results of our "experiment" exceeded our expectations, there were also failures and obstacles along the way which impeded our progress. This presentation features some of our favorite stories from the journey and highlights and illustrates the transferable techniques we have utilized over the last five years in Boeing IT as well as new approach to Agile metrics we are piloting in 2014.

Ryan Kleps
Process Analyst, Boeing