Turning Training Topics into Games: A Step-by-Step Process By Ellen Zimmerman, Ph.D. If I asked you if you wanted to play a game or sit through a training presentation, which would you choose? I'm pretty sure I heard you say "game." Unless the speaker is a professional who doesn't need the slides, many training presentations sound a lot like Charlie Brown's teacher: "whah, whah, whah." Your brain just doesn't focus as well when you are listening without being engaged in the content. | 32 Transitioning your most rote, boring (I mean important) training content into something fun that creates better learning retention doesn't have to be an expensive venture. Why Gamification Gamification is the art of transforming training content that is often not retained by learners into an interactive learning process with improved knowledge retention. A review of literature on whether gamification works provides support that gamification can provide positive learning results. Gamification of learning provides learners with a comfortable, nonthreatening setting to participate and learn by listening to others. The