The common myth that gamers are a useless generation is untrue. Gamers are committed, team-oriented professionals who play to win. Consisting of millions of rising professionals, the gamer generation will at the end of the day lead the workforce, and they are already changing the rules of learning.
Misconcepts about Gamers
Gaming is not a waste of time, but an astonishingly effective training method for teaching vital business skills.
Researchers have found that all those endless hours engrossed in front of video and computer games have produced masses of employees with unique characteristics such as
- Bold but calculated risk taking
- A remarkable ability to multitask
- Startling leadership skills.
The Gamer
Gamers intuitively recognize that their personal success depends on adding value to the business enterprise and they essentially expect to deliver an excellent performance. Gamers are used to being leaders.
Some valuable personality traits of the gamers are -
- They have a cleverly camouflaged commitment to professional excellence.
- A well-built belief in competition gives the gaming generation a welcome impetus to perform.
- Even though they are focused on theirability and on competition, gamers care more about the business they work for than non-gamers.
- Gamers prefer recompense and bonuses based on tangible performance rather than a set remuneration.
The points where gamers as employees score over non-gamers are-:
- Gamers re-invent themselves: the gaming generation is self-educating and always onto something "new".
- Gamers "think unusual": for the gaming generation, personal control, trial and error, and continuous change are all just part of life.
- Gamers are born global: the gaming generation is exposed to a multitude of cultures through the gaming experience and thinks nothing of chatting to colleagues' across the world as if they were just next door.
- Gamers are tough: Gamers know, the only real restraining factor to be successful is a person's own keenness to keep trying. The only real driver is the aspiration to reach a higher level.
Failure leads to Success
Gamers don't just gain knowledge of people but of the rest of reality, too. Games demonstrate how the world works and that failure doesn't hurt, it is a part of life.
Before winning a game, gamers will have failed numerous times. Such high failure rates can be exceptionally productive. Because of the high possibility of failure, gamers logically focus on what they did wrong, where they could have done better, and how to reach the next level.
So the gaming generation learns through replication something that countless trainers have tried to instill-: Failure is part of the procedure that leads to success. Gamers have learnt to embrace risk for precisely the right business reasons-: to capture a suitably large recompense.
Conclusion
Without a doubt gamers are strong in precisely the areas that today's companies require most. But to control these skills, managers need to understand and value the very special ways in which gamers think and behave.
