Can you recommend any games that can be played in call centres to help increase morale?
“We asked the question “Can you recommend any games that can be played in call centres to help increase morale?”. Here are your replies.
“Rush hour (9 - 11 on a Monday morning) - maximise sales by offering rewards, sweets or ring a bell. Team competitions. Who can bring in the most sales before 9.00am. Bacon Butties for no sickness for a week. Team prize” - Susan Forrow, Performance Manager, Inkfish Call Centres Ltd
“For teams - each team has 10 balloons - each time a team makes a sale, they can pop one of the other teams’ balloons. Individually - each person has 3 balloons (a bit like the weakest link)” - Dave Fricker, Telecom Applications
“Rather than games to motivate people, I see more benefits coming from Involvement Lock In - e.g. Charity Committee. Agents present to a local charity. Charity visit to raise the money in different events and try and get people involved - i.e. Telethon and Comic Relief” - Adam Faulker, Sabio
“Using events such as the World Cup, Halloween and Christmas to link up with games. We put it back to the employees and let them design the games. Lots of companies give vouchers, but we ask our staff what they want rather than give them vouchers” - Lucy Moran, Eckoh Ltd
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We use prizes to motivate. It does not have to be flash things - I do a lucky dip, fill a black bag with shredded paper and fill with; pens, books,bubbles etc and for every 4 sales they get to luky dip. Competitions against other teams are good:- Pass the parcel, or a prize of getting offline for an hour always is a popular one.
Take an object such as a board eraser or squishy ball to a team meeting. Pass the object to someone in the group and explain that it is to be passed to the person next to them and it must continue to move.They cannot. Manager turns their back a few seconds so you don’t see who has the object and then yells stop. The person holding the object then has to answer a question given such as ‘name 5 types of women’s shoes’, name 5 authors, or 5 kinds of sportscars, 5 vegetables or nuts.Just any kind of questions that they really have to think fast. The object stays with that person until the question is answered and the game continues. I have used this game on most of my teams and they always love it. If someone gets stuck with an answer, the rest of the team helps out. It builds team work and helps to cope with pressure.
Comment by Patricia — 9 Nov 2008 @ 4:48 pm