Knowledge Guru

MAY 9, 2017

These two words guided our team’s efforts as we decided on features and improvements for the Spring 2017 release of Knowledge Guru. The Bottom-Line Performance team launched the Knowledge Guru in 2012. Visuals and Variety. New Look for Quest. Since its launch in late 2014, Quest has become our most popular Knowledge Guru app.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The BLP team (creators of Knowledge Guru) is no stranger to the challenges that come with learning game creation. Particularly, if you’re an in-house designer, this book will not only help you work internally with different teams in the company, but also help you address customers and their needs. You can order a copy here.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 13, 2014

I work with members of our Training & Development Team to develop and distribute our training materials as well as performing presentations and training sessions. We have also used it internally to help our Training Team learn about new training techniques and procedures. Who are your Knowledge Guru games for?

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 10, 2017

Two of them are presented by Bottom-Line Performance team members: one on mobile learning and the other on learning game design. This session is presented by two of BLP’s marketing team members, Steven and Jake. The conference will commence Wednesday, January 11th and end Friday, January 13th. We hope to see you there!

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 21, 2016

We use board games to encourage team discussion, foster collaboration to achieve goals, provide application practice and/or provide recall practice. Create ways for learners to work in groups or teams. Most game-based learning will fit into one of the following categories: Mobile Games. Board Games. Online Computer Games.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 20, 2017

This can be helpful if you want to display results in a leaderboard by location, by team, by role, etc. Be aware that the first custom registration field you have in your game links to a leaderboard. Follow these steps to select Leaderboards for your Drive game. Quick Steps List.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 16, 2017

By doing so, I can stay on top of my game in my professional development and bring new ideas back to my team. Steve and Jake (part of our team here at BLP) will share recent stats on mobile learning adoption, identify common roadblocks organizations face, and demonstrate how mobile design principles improve the learner experience.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

As you consider the best way to help learners with product knowledge, consider these examples from Knowledge Guru customers: ExactTarget needed sales and support teams to know all the product facts, terminology for the launch of MobileConnect. The game is still used for new members of the MobileConnect team.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 20, 2014

The Knowledge Guru team is kicking off 2014 with two exciting new additions to the Knowledge Guru product: an Enterprise edition and a Racing theme pack. Add and edit game authors: Have a team of instructional designers? New Enterprise Edition. Change details like the game’s title and URL in seconds.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Your sales team has a mix of skillsets and experience levels. Once you diagnose the issue, whether it’s a lack of self-confidence or competence, you can start building towards a team of more fearless, successful sales reps. Some are really great at connecting with customers, but others lack self-confidence and may underperform.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 22, 2017

The Bottom-Line Performance team launched the Knowledge Guru in 2012. Knowledge Guru administrators can now choose to turn on a carefully crafted series of emails that players trigger with various in-game activities. These auto emails are designed to foster repeat play and gently nudge inactive users. About Bottom-Line Performance.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 26, 2016

In addition, managers must put people over process and make time for things like coaching, mentoring, training and creating a positive team culture. Unfortunately, today’s spread out sales teams make coaching difficult. A great sales manager can be the difference between a high performing rep staying or going.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 12, 2015

It’s yet another opportunity to see a live demo of the new “Quest” game type, learn how the spacing and repetition in Knowledge Guru lead to long-term employee retention and meet in person with some members of the Bottom-Line Performance team. ATD TechKnowledge is just the start of a busy year for the BLP team.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 12, 2015

It’s yet another opportunity to see a live demo of the new “Quest” game type, learn how the spacing and repetition in Knowledge Guru lead to long-term employee retention and meet in person with some members of the Bottom-Line Performance team. ATD TechKnowledge is just the start of a busy year for the BLP team.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

And where is the Sales Retail team, as the Out-of-home team takes the charge in this battle. This week’s top 3 remains the same, but Knori, Streefje and Katleen amongst others still have some levels to go. They can still beat the mysterious Royvalle. Are they afraid? Who can beat them? Register now and play!

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 13, 2017

TE is continually looking for creative ways to equip our sales team and distributors to serve our customers,” said Maria Cannon, Vice President of channel marketing at TE. TE’s vision for an interactive game partnered with BLP’s design expertise created a tool that serves our team in a way that is different from standard training tools.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 19, 2014

Managers are perking up too; they need their teams to develop the skills needed to bring game design “in-house.” We’ve heard it again and again: instructional designers are clamoring to add game design to their skill sets.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Here’s a two primary examples: To re-direct players’ attention to leader boards or to recent progress of a team or an individual player. There are several occasions where sending an in-game email to a player or a group of players can be useful. You may be running a contest. Quick Steps.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 15, 2014

This can be helpful if you want to display results in a leaderboard by location, by team, by role, etc. Be aware that the first custom registration field you have in your game links to a leaderboard. Follow these steps to learn how to select Leaderboards. Quick Steps List. Select the CUSTOMIZE tab.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 23, 2015

This is no different than any sports team: practice and more practice make for a winning team! Do the process. Of course, once reps know the process, we must allow them sufficient time to practice the process.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 21, 2013

However, creating a design document can make your use of the wizard easier – and provide your project team members an easy way to review the overall game design. Instead you communicate this URL address to your review team and provide them with a spreadsheet of the questions in the game so they can make comments or suggest any revisions.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 13, 2015

For the third straight year, the Bottom-Line Performance team will head to ATD International in support of our Knowledge Guru platform. As usual, our schedule is full of educational sessions and workshops that explore learning science, retention and learning game design. Here’s where we will be in Orlando: Saturday, May 16th.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The sales team has goals of its own, and they may not always align. Unfortunately, there’s often a disconnect between the business unit who created a product and the salesforce who sells it. The product managers developed the product and have specific goals they want to hit, in collaboration with the C-suit.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 8, 2013

Make sure you have a question set for every topic: When trial users are demo’ing their game to others on their team, they sometimes forget this step. For every topic you create, you must create a complete question set to make your game live. If you don’t, you’ll get an error like this: 3.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

…allow an internal team to collaborate on the solution. The majority of corporate learning content involves Bloom’s verbs like identify, remember, understand, etc. Solutions should make the process of acquiring this knowledge painless and even motivating. An enterprise-ready solution is needed.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Our team has attended DevLearn for years to learn about the latest, greatest learning solutions before they “hit the shelves” for most of our clients. Fall is in the air. For us at BLP , that means it’s DevLearn season. DevLearn is the premier learning conference for emerging trends and technology.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 11, 2016

Winning this award with our Knowledge Guru app is a great honor and reflects the efforts of our product team to bring the full Knowledge Guru experience to mobile devices.”. “The Horizon Interactive Awards competition has always been about excellent design” said Sharon Boller, President of Bottom-Line Performance.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 31, 2018

You can even program the bot to forward questions it cannot answer to your training team for further support. For example, a learner could text the bot a question and receive an answer without having to log into the LMS to look for it. Training reinforcement needs to be carefully positioned as part of the learner’s overall experience.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The Knowledge Guru team is always reading up on games and gamification, so we thought we’d curate some of the best books for anyone interested in learning game design. Last week we did a post on 5 Great Serious Games and Gamification Blogs to Follow.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Here are five common business situations where a serious game can help: Your product launch cycles are too fast, with little time to train sales and support teams : A well-designed serious game that helps people learn product facts and features can save significant time and money over traditional training methods.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Since the release of Knowledge Guru in 2012, our team has spent thousands of hours researching the science of learning and serious games. We’ve play tested dozens of games to see what mechanics work for learning.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

BLP has an extremely talented team of consultants with a high focus on relationships. This acquisition has enabled us to stay true to our values while also delivering on our goals of optimal solutions and an optimal workplace for our team members. Sharon Boller will remain with the team in a senior leadership role.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 27, 2013

The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. But not everyone is as informed about the industry. We are setting out to change that.

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Games Resources eLearning Guild Simulations 157

Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. But not everyone is as informed about the industry. We are setting out to change that.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 17, 2017

Desire not to let someone down (if playing on a team). If mental activity and physical actions are required of us, it’s harder to disengage than if we remain passive. Collaborate with others to work through a challenge or get something done. Desire to feel valued by teammates. Desire for interaction with others. Emotion interests us.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Look for a recurring series of “Questions to Ask as a Learning Designer” to challenge yourself, or your design team, to think differently about learning game design. Download the White Paper. You can download the white paper here.

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Games Case Study Gamification Player 194

Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 14, 2013

The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. But not everyone is as informed about the industry. We are setting out to change that.

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Cognitive Games Resources Player 145