Discover a secret tool to improving individual performance in a rapidly changing business environment: gamification. Learn how you can apply gamification to motivate behavioral change to support performance. Slalom Consulting will describe its internal framework and highlight specific initiatives, as it experiments on itself to advance individual performance and build organizational capability.
This program is part of our CPLP competency series, with a focus on Improving Human Performance.
Join Matt Holcomb, an organization effectiveness leader for Slalom Consulting in San Francisco, and two of his senior colleagues to learn how you can improve individual performance at your organization or for your clients. Matt will walk you through a case study, show you Slalom’s internal experimentation of gamification for recruiting and retaining productive work networks during a period of high growth, and when to use gamification to support performance.
You will walk away with:
- Ideas on how to improve role-based performance when your business model is rapidly shifting
- Key concepts of gamification applied to improving human performance
- Tools you can use to diagnose where and when to apply gamification in supporting performance improvement
Who should attend:
- L&D leaders and practitioners responsible for designing and developing performance management solutions
- Directors and managers that have teams or large populations of performers experiencing wide variance of performance
- HR leaders and business partners who provide performance improvement consulting
Presenters:
Matt Holcomb is an organization effectiveness leader for Slalom Consulting in San Francisco, CA. Matt is an advisor to Fortune 500 sales, HR, L&D, marketing and IT leaders. His work spans strategy, design and implementation across frontline excellence, integrated talent management, and HR/L&D transformations. His experience focuses on integrated talent management and applying social media and gamification to support business outcomes.
Prior to Slalom Consulting, Matt was a Principal Consultant for Bersin & Associates; a Consulting Director for several years at Exemplary Performance, LLC, a performance management consultancy. Matt has also been a Strategic Services Architect for Saba, Inc., Manager at BearingPoint and sales leader at SPSS, Inc.
Matt is a longtime San Francisco resident and actively participates in Jefferson School Budget Committee, Urban Forests, and SF Parks Alliance. He spends his time hiking across Northern California and playing baseball and soccer with his wife and two children in the Golden Gate Park on most weekends.
Tyler Shada is a Director for Slalom Consulting based in Palo Alto, CA. He originally joined Slalom in Seattle and then relocated to the Bay Area to help open the local market. Over the past five years he has been part of the team scaling the Bay Area from origination to 160 employees. Tyler is focused on increasing velocity of the firm through account leadership, internal operations, analytics and talent acquisition. His work spans strategy, reporting, training, and tactical delivery within talent acquisition. His experience includes integrated talent acquisition and applying gamification to support business outcomes.
Prior to Slalom Consulting, Tyler was an independent consultant focused on software and mobile product development, a Product Manager at HigherMarkets, a Product Manager at Simplexis, and a Consultant at Accenture.
Tyler grew up in the Midwest, holds multiple engineering degrees from Northwestern University and enjoys spending time with his wife and two young sons.
