Is Your Team Wii Fit?
This holiday season I received the Wii Fit software game. Now I have purchased several Wii games in the past year, so Wii is not new to me. But this Wii Fit has been a very popular software program, so I was curious, what made it so popular? For those who don’t know about Wii or Wii Fit, you need to get outside more often, but I’ll explain. Wii is a software video system, like X-Box or PlayStation. You buy video games such as shooting games, sporting activity games, educational games etc. In recent years these gaming systems have become very sophisticated and interactive. Well back to my Wii Fit….
As we all know, exercising is not a fun activity for most people. Even though we know it is good for us, we make excuses for putting it off. I wondered what made this exercise video so compelling and then it hit me, motivation! I love when science and technology catch up with me.
I explain how to motivate and improve your work teams, using terms like enjoyable, passionate, and focused on the individual. Well, Wii Fit is using those same traits to have us workout.
First, the Wii Fit platform measures our weight, asks our age, determines our balance and starts us with beginner exercises, in other words assessing our personal traits. Next, we are given a variety of activities that determine what exercises we excel at. The exercises are thoroughly explained and we are encouraged throughout the exercises, just like a manager should do with their team. The Wii Fit measures how well we do with our balance and accuracy as we perform these exercises. My performance is ranked based on past performances, so I have an analysis of how well I’m doing. I am always striving to beat my last performance.
Wii Fit gives us a series of activities under the heading of Yoga, Strength Training, Aerobics and Games, so we don’t get bored. Even the Games category is having us do fitness activities disguised as games and ranking our success. We receive recognition as we improve.
There is also a heading called Favorites where your best activities are automatically stored so you can continue to work on the exercises you are good at. This Wii Fit is motivating me to perform tasks that I didn’t think I would like, in a way that is enjoyable, measurable, and using my best skills.
How about your work teams? Do you know where each member’s talents lie? Have you found a way to incorporate those talents towards your organizations goals? Are your team members given a record of how they are doing, not against someone else, who have different talents and characteristics, but ranking their successes against themselves based on how they have done in the past? Are your teammates given specific instructions how they can improve their present ranking? I think this Wii Fit has something here. Maybe next year there will be a Wii Sales, Wii Communication or Wii Customer Service. Hmmmm, then what will I do.
I need to leave now because I need to beat my scores from yesterday.
By: Kenny Zail
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As we all know, exercising is not a fun activity for most people. Even though we know it is good for us, we make excuses for putting it off. I wondered what made this exercise video so compelling and then it hit me, motivation! I love when science and technology catch up with me.
I explain how to motivate and improve your work teams, using terms like enjoyable, passionate, and focused on the individual. Well, Wii Fit is using those same traits to have us workout.
First, the Wii Fit platform measures our weight, asks our age, determines our balance and starts us with beginner exercises, in other words assessing our personal traits. Next, we are given a variety of activities that determine what exercises we excel at. The exercises are thoroughly explained and we are encouraged throughout the exercises, just like a manager should do with their team. The Wii Fit measures how well we do with our balance and accuracy as we perform these exercises. My performance is ranked based on past performances, so I have an analysis of how well I’m doing. I am always striving to beat my last performance.
Wii Fit gives us a series of activities under the heading of Yoga, Strength Training, Aerobics and Games, so we don’t get bored. Even the Games category is having us do fitness activities disguised as games and ranking our success. We receive recognition as we improve.
There is also a heading called Favorites where your best activities are automatically stored so you can continue to work on the exercises you are good at. This Wii Fit is motivating me to perform tasks that I didn’t think I would like, in a way that is enjoyable, measurable, and using my best skills.
How about your work teams? Do you know where each member’s talents lie? Have you found a way to incorporate those talents towards your organizations goals? Are your team members given a record of how they are doing, not against someone else, who have different talents and characteristics, but ranking their successes against themselves based on how they have done in the past? Are your teammates given specific instructions how they can improve their present ranking? I think this Wii Fit has something here. Maybe next year there will be a Wii Sales, Wii Communication or Wii Customer Service. Hmmmm, then what will I do.
I need to leave now because I need to beat my scores from yesterday.
By: Kenny Zail
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