Staff Connect - Forecaster Games

Staff Connect

Give your staff something to buzz about across departments and product lines.

Build Camaraderie

Raise spirits and raise the visibility of corporate materials by hosting fun contests for your entire staff. With contests that strengthen relationships across departmental lines and across rungs in the corporate ladder, your team will truly elevate their esprit de "corp."

March Madness, the Academy Awards, American Idol, football season, The Masters, elections… we run contests all year ´round about popular events that people care about. Everybody loves competitions among superstars on the field, on the screen, on the air, on stage, and in the news.

Staff Connect offers common experiences they can all enjoy. And while your co-workers may not click over to their HR intranet very often, our games can get crucial corporate materials the eyeballs they need.

A fun way
to improve in-house communications

Nobody has a crystal ball, but everybody has an opinion! Staff Connect lets you host online games with elegant designs and straightforward gameplay. Our technology does all the hard work, and allows you to integrate custom announcements and links to HR matters that concern every employee. (Enticing prizes that you can supply also generate interest, of course :-)

Here's an example

Say you own Kingfish Consulting Corp., a tech advisory and outsourcing agency with headquarters spread across three cities. Depending upon the assignment and client, different experts from your various locales get pulled in. Additionally, you´ve just decided to switch corporate health-care plans, and there´s a suite of deadlines coming that everyone needs to keep in mind. Here´s how Staff Connect can help:

1) Select
2) Brand
3) Promote
4) Engage
5) Track

1) Select

Choose an upcoming event your clients care about

At Kingfish Consulting, many staffers love binge-watching TV and going to the movies, and the Primetime Emmy Awards are coming up. So you choose a trilogy of contests starting with the Emmys, continuing with a box-office earnings 10-week ranking challenge, and ending with the Academy Awards.

2) Brand

Upload your logo, choose a game id and your game is immediately available to try out.

You meet with your head of HR and your intranet manager, and calendar out the timing of health plan registration deadlines alongside the deadlines for the contest. As deadlines approach for the games and the plan, the appropriate reminders will be circulated.

Finally, you build out a set of on-theme prizes: movie passes, Netflix subscriptions, and a grand-prize 77-inch 4K Smart TV.

3) Promote

Send an email blast to your staff with the URL for the first contest.

Once the nominees are announced, the game automatically notifies all registrants that they can make their first choices. Staffers can change their minds as often as they´d like, up until the Emmy Awards ceremony begins.

During the 10-week box-office earnings contest, staff members who have opted in get weekly updates of who won that weekends forecasting challenge, and can click through to make their best predictions for the upcoming week´s gross box office receipts.

By the time the Oscars come around, Tall offices are abuzz with who´s got the best shot at the grand prize!

4) Engage

Let your profits race ahead from here!

Sometimes when consultants work on-site on client projects for long periods of time, they get a bit detached from the inner goings-on at the home office.

Staff Connect helps every staff member feel part of the whole.

It all adds up to keeping Kingfish Consulting at the forefront of the minds of your entire team, whether they´re new accountants, seasoned coders, or senior management.

5) Track

View all registration and participation metrics in real-time.

Aside from the obvious rise in water cooler chatter, it´s easy for HR management to track the effectiveness of this game in increasing visibility for corporate communications. All registration and participation metrics are organized into charts and graphs, and click-throughs to the intranet portal are similarly enumerated.