MiniGames™ are a fun, engaging way to correct a weakness or pursue an opportunity in your business. They get teams focused on the same goal and moving in the right direction, while also reinforcing business education, building teamwork, and creating a culture of winning. Great Game practitioner Qualbe Marketing Group started playing MiniGames two years ago, and their award-winning team has experienced impressive operational and cultural improvements as a result. Qualbe, a digital marketing, sales and technology firm based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, is the home of the national 1Dental brand, a top dental insurance alternative. They credit the principles of the Great Game of Business with helping them achieve their goal of outstanding organizational growth. Along the way, their MiniGame successes and challenges have provided them with several practical lessons from the field any Great Game practitioner can benefit from.

Creating an informed and engaged workforce doesn't happen overnight...and isn't sustainable without the dedication and focus of the whole team. To help get your Game off on the right foot in the new year, here's a list of must-know tips from our best blogs to help The Game excel at your company.

MiniGames™ are a powerful tool in engaging your team while targeting a weakness or pursuing an opportunity within your company. As you may know, they have been proven to drive company success. One component that can make or break the success of your MiniGames™ is the strength of your reward system. Here are the most essential elements of choosing the best rewards to motivate your teams for memorable and sustainable results.

MiniGames™ are short-term improvement challenges designed to correct a weakness or pursue an opportunity in the company. This targeted day-to-day progress adds up to long-term success, every small win putting you closer to the big win or goal. MiniGames are one of the greatest tools for driving improvement and engagement in your organization, so we asked you to share your company's best MiniGame at this year's annual conference. At the Gathering of Games, our practitioners had a chance to pitch their most successful MiniGame to a group of seasoned judges to see how it stacked up. Our judges selected two finalists to present on the Gathering main stage to share their best MiniGame with the entire conference. Check out our participants' and winners' presentations, along with our Minigame Toolkit below to help you get started or improve your company's MiniGames!

When you’re planning a MiniGame™, you’re most likely starting with a goal in mind, whether it’s reducing an expense, increasing a sales number or even replacing the toilet paper roll (hey, MiniGames can target any area that needs addressing!). It’s usually easy to find something you want to improve, but building a MiniGame that will drive those results takes some fun – and some finesse. We may be a two-time All-Star Award winner, but not all our early MiniGames were successful. Even a few years in, we had to step back, review and reinvent our Game play to reset and reinvigorate our results. Here are a few tricks we’ve learned along the way.

We're Jenner Ag and we are a practitioner host for The Great Game Experience. We're very excited to partner with The Great Game of Business team for this event. We wanted to tell you a little more about our story and how we practice open-book management in our organization. Before we had ever heard about The Great Game of Business, Jenner Ag was a profitable company… but we knew we had more potential. Although the profit sharing program the company had implemented years ago was quite successful, the management team could feel it getting stale. Worse, the employees had come to view it as more of an entitlement than something they had to earn. It desperately needed reenergizing.

Rolf Glass is a small manufacturer of decorative glassware in Pennsylvania. When the company first began teaching the Critical Numbers to its employees, the leadership at Rolf Glass noticed that there was a lot of room for improvement. In 2013, it was running at an average 88 percent efficiency, thus losing 12 percent of product.

Co-authored by Jack O'Riley MiniGames™ are a powerful tool for engaging your team while pursuing an opportunity or tackling a weakness within your company. These short-term improvement challenges drive performance metrics that contribute to the year-end revenue goal in addition to impacting behaviors of your employees. Engaging employees through an incentivized program provides an opportunity to develop your staff and discover their hidden skill-sets. Often times, MiniGames also improve teamwork and employee satisfaction scores. What does it take to put together a MiniGame? Be sure to include these must-have elements when developing your next short-term incentive challenge:

The Kiolbassa Provision Company is a 65-year-old family-owned manufacturer of handcrafted sausage based in San Antonio, Texas. Originally started as more of a pork and beef processor, the company shifted into making sausage fulltime under the guidance of president Michael Kiolbassa, whose grandfather started the company. The company’s sausages will soon be sold in all 50 states and in Mexico.

Founded in January 2000 in Fort Worth, Texas, Texas Air Composites (TAC) repairs and overhauls aircraft for airlines and other private owners all over the world.