NEW! Revolutionizing Employee Onboarding Certificate:
Gamification and Augmented Reality in Training Design Lab

A series of 4 sessions starting June 17, 2025

Register Early! Course size is limited.

 

Certificate Overview

This design lab immerses you in the world of gamified onboarding and augmented reality, shifting away from traditional methods of passive presentations and slide-heavy sessions. You will leave with actionable skills to create interactive, hands-on onboarding modules that fast-track employee competency, foster a sense of belonging, and improve retention. Throughout each 3-hour session, you will design and prototype onboarding modules, learn best practices, and explore cutting-edge technology to ensure new hires feel competent, engaged, and valued from day one. If you are ready to modernize and revitalize the onboarding processes, this lab offers the opportunity to acquire new skills in gamification and AR while networking with peers and experts. You will leave with a functional, engaging onboarding module designed to maximize employee satisfaction and retention.

Bonus Items 

• Comprehensive Toolkit: Access to a toolkit with design templates, a step-by-step guide for gamification integration, and AR setup resources.
• Networking and Post-Course Consultation: An invitation to join an expert network for ongoing support, plus resources for post-course consultation.
• This comprehensive, hands-on course will empower you to redesign onboarding programs into highly engaging, efficient, and effective learning experiences. It will focus on reducing 'time to competency' for frontline and trade workers, enhancing their early performance and connection to the organization through gamification and augmented reality.

Key Features of the Sessions:

1. Interactive Design Workshops

• Engage in hands-on activities to design and implement gamification strategies within onboarding programs, using real-life scenarios and design tools.

2. Guided AR Integration

• Learn how augmented reality (AR) can simulate tasks and environments safely and effectively, providing new hires with practical experience without risk.

3. Expert-Led Insights and Case Studies

• Benefit from expert insights on successful applications of gamification and AR in industries like manufacturing, healthcare, and retail, where streamlined onboarding is crucial.

4. Collaborative Design Sessions

• Work in teams to design a segment of an onboarding program, applying learned techniques and testing each element’s impact on engagement and learning retention.

Course Details

Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites.

Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for HR professionals, training managers, and organizational leaders who want to enhance onboarding processes, particularly for roles requiring hands-on, operational skill development, such as frontline and trade workers. 

Technical Requirements
You will need download a free trial of Zapworks Designer for AR creation. Important:  Your trial period for this software is 14 days. We recommend you install the trial version no more than 24 hours prior to the start of the first session. 

Course Objectives

By the end of this certificate you will:

• Master Core Gamification Principles: Understand and apply gamification elements that increase learner engagement, including points, badges, and leaderboards.

• Explore Augmented Reality Tools: Integrate AR into onboarding for an interactive, risk-free environment that accelerates hands-on learning.

• Create a Scalable Framework: Design a scalable onboarding framework that reduces time-to-competency and maximizes new hire satisfaction.

• Develop a Prototype Onboarding Module: Create and test a gamified onboarding module ready to integrate into real-world onboarding programs.

• Evaluate ROI and Effectiveness: Identify and measure key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess onboarding program effectiveness and impact.

Course Materials

• Comprehensive Toolkit: Access to a toolkit with design templates, a step-by-step guide for gamification integration, and AR setup resources.

• Networking and Post-Course Consultation: An invitation to join an expert network for ongoing support, plus resources for post-course consultation.

Sessions

Session 1:     Gamification Foundations for Onboarding

Explore core gamification principles and how they apply to onboarding, including essential elements like points, levels, and feedback loops to engage learners.

• Activities: Gamified brainstorming; designing basic game elements.

• Outcome: Draft a game-based storyboard to map out the new hire journey.

Session 2:     Building Immersive, Real-World Scenarios with Augmented Reality

Learn how to integrate AR to simulate real-life tasks and provide hands-on practice for new hires without risk.

• Activities: Demo of AR tools for onboarding; guided setup of a sample AR scenario.

• Outcome: Create a basic AR scenario plan tailored to onboarding tasks in your industry.

Session 3:     Collaborative Design and Prototyping

Teams will collaboratively design an onboarding prototype, integrating gamification and AR to create a comprehensive new hire journey.

• Activities: Group prototyping, feedback sessions, and iterative testing.

• Outcome: Finalize and test a prototype onboarding module with peer feedback.

Session 4:     Measuring Success and Scaling for Impact

Discover methods to assess the onboarding module’s effectiveness and plan for scalability.

• Activities: Defining KPIs, creating a measurement plan, and exploring how to refine and scale the program.

• Outcome: Develop an onboarding success measurement framework to track ROI and program impact.

      

Instructors

Monica Cornetti
Sententia Gamification
Monica with individuals and organizations who want to learn how to think playfully to achieve uncommon results. A gamification speaker and designer, Monica is recognized as one of the Most Influential Women in Gamification who have created a legitimate impact in the gamification industry. Hired for her skill as a gamification speaker and strategist and is considered at the top of her field in gamification design (ILT, vILT, eLearning, and Hybrid) for corporate training and adult education. When she is not busy transforming dry, dull, and boring training with gamification, Monica can be found “researching” gameplay with her grandchildren.

Jonathan Peters
Sententia Gamification
As Motivation Officer at Sententia, Jonathan has spent over a decade studying the science and art of motivation and persuasion. As a speaker, he has helped audiences from Melbourne, Australia to Augusta, Maine more effectively communicate with their customers and team-members. With Sententia, he applies his knowledge and experience to make learning more enticing, engaging, and encouraging through gamification. Jonathan is the co-author of Deliberate Fun: A Purposeful Application of Game Mechanics to Learning Experiences.

Destery Hildenbrand
XR Learning Consultant, Destery1Kenobi, LLC
As an XR Solution Architect with more than ten years of experience integrating immersive technologies (AR/VR/MR) into corporate and educational environment, Destery is passionate about designing innovative learning solutions that drive engagement, retention, and user success. His expertise includes developing immersive experiences, managing cross-functional teams of developers, and leading training sessions on cutting-edge technologies and he thrives by helping organizations unlock the full potential of AR/VR to enhance their learning and development programs. 

Course Dates

Course Rates

Early-Bird Registration 30+ days prior to course start date: $845

Registration within 30 days of course start date: $995

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Course Equipment

IMPORTANT - You'll participate in online and collaborative activities in a number of ways, each designed to provide a unique means to interact and learn from experts and colleagues. All course delivery software operates at Internet connection speeds of 56.6 kbps or better, on PC, Mac and Unix platforms. Programs will use teleconferencing or VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol.) The login instructions emailed to you approximately one week prior to the start of the course will outline platform use as well as any headset requirements or suggestions. Each registrant must provide their own laptop or desktop computer in order to fully participate in the course as mobile applications such as Zoom and Adobe Connect have limited feature functionality that may prohibit you from fully experiencing class activities. Please test your login information a minimum of 48 hours in advance on your course start date on the computer you will be using for the course.
 

ATD Initial Eligibility and Recertification

Training Magazine Certificates have been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials.  For questions on initial eligibility and recertification, visit ATD Certification Institute. 

This program has been approved for a maximum of 12 points.