{"id":3510,"date":"2011-03-24T09:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T16:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2011-03-24T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T16:49:04","slug":"how-to-engage-employees-in-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/how-to-engage-employees-in-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Engage Employees in Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Employee engagement<\/em>. It\u2019s one of the most critical elements of any sustainability or CSR program, but it\u2019s also one of the most perplexing.\u00a0 The reason it\u2019s so difficult is that most of us aren\u2019t professional \u201cengagers.\u201d But game designers are.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Priebatsch, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scvngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SCVNGR<\/a>, believes the engaging foundations of game thinking is ready to break out of your game console and into all facets of personal and professional life.<\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome to the Game Layer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a keynote address at the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/sxsw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">South by Southwest<\/a> conference, Seth explained how the past decade built a \u201cSocial Layer\u201d on top of the world. This social layer, created with tools like Facebook and Twitter, is all about forging connections between individuals. With this social layer, you can now connect and visualize your relationships in a whole new way.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the \u201cGame Layer\u201d is all about influence. Instead of trading in social connections the way that Facebook does, the game layer traffics in human motivation. It\u2019s not about the number of followers you have, or how many people \u201clike\u201d you, but about how you can leverage game mechanics to achieve all sorts of great things.<\/p>\n<p><em>How Games Motivate Change<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Game designers think about engagement for a living. They not only want you to buy and play their game, but they want you to keep playing and reach for the next level of success. In other words, game designers motivate you.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2011\/03\/23\/how-to-engage-employees-in-sustainability\/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Leader:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee engagement. It\u2019s one of the most critical elements of any sustainability or CSR program, but it\u2019s also one of the most perplexing.\u00a0 The reason it\u2019s so difficult is that most of us aren\u2019t professional \u201cengagers.\u201d But game designers are. Seth Priebatsch, founder of SCVNGR, believes the engaging foundations of game thinking is ready to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/how-to-engage-employees-in-sustainability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Engage Employees in Sustainability<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}