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The Manager's Role in Employee Engagement and in Corporate Team Building
Employees don't leave companies, they leave managers. Gallup found that managers account for at least 70% of the variance in team engagement. Here is what great managers do differently, and why team building and wellbeing belong in their daily work.
Game-based wellbeing: Corporate team building
The importance of corporate wellbeing is increasing as organizations work to reduce team burnout. Now imagine a corporate wellbeing solution that is not only corporate wellness gamification, but playable wellbeing games for teams.
In finance organization: wellbeing of teams rose after game-based wellbeing
The importance of corporate wellbeing is increasing as organizations work to reduce team burnout. Now imagine a corporate wellbeing solution that is not only corporate wellness gamification, but playable wellbeing games for teams.
Meet Albin: The artist who turns our sketches into 3D
Albin is new to designing psychology games. At Nordaurai, that's part of the point. We build games, and we also build people, everyone here gets to learn something they haven't done before.
Meet Nikki: The creative artist behind our first wellbeing board game
Nikki joined Nordaurai as a game artist intern. She finds Nordaurai a meaningful job because she has a deep curiosity about psychology, and giving art to mental health games is exciting and meaningful for her.
Case study: Psyon Games used Nordaurai's wellbeing games for their team engagement day
Case Study: Psyon Games used a gamified wellbeing workshop for their team engagement. Team members openly discussed and reflected through Nordaurai's wellbeing games to improve their team engagement and organizational productivity.
Meet Noel: The creative mind behind Nordaurai’s characters
Noel joined Nordaurai as our character designer intern and his first job turned out to be more than just a line on his resume. In this post, he shares why he chose a wellbeing game studio over a traditional entertainment studio, what he's learned balancing fun gameplay with meaningful design, and how the work has aligned with his own values from day one
Meet Nicky: Head of Game Production Behind Our Games
Meet Pernilla known as Nicky, Nordaurai's Head of Game Production. Discover how her passion for serious games and positive psychology brought her to build wellbeing games that help people grow.
Measuring organizational wellbeing impact:
Organizational development has to be part of HR budget planning, because a company's biggest asset is its people. Burned-out people mean poor performance. Healthy, engaged people and leaders mean more performance and more revenue. This isn't up for debate
HR Budget Planning for Organizations: Planning Your Q4 Wellbeing Budget
Organizational development has to be part of HR budget planning, because a company's biggest asset is its people. Burned-out people mean poor performance. Healthy, engaged people and leaders mean more performance and more revenue. This isn't up for debate
How to Reduce Company Costs: The Real Employee Cost Breakdown
Our CEO Angela Boyajian breaks down the real cost of turnover, sick leave, and burnout in organizations with real HR data
Is Silent Burnout Quietly Costing You Revenue?
Every person in your organization, including you as director or CEO, silently experiencing burnout is silently burning revenue.
Gamified Wellbeing vs. Traditional Wellness Programs
The data is clear, Team and leaders are not engaging with wellness apps, and they're not using these tools. So this raises a real question for buyers: if usage is this low, what exactly is your user report showing?
Designing Work for Employee Wellbeing
I have come across many team members ignoring the pop-up notifications from their wellness provider. So yes, organizations need measurable behavior change for better organizational performance. As a business owner myself, I value companies' investment, and this reflects our core value: your wellbeing investment must be worth it.
Why Employee Burnout Is Rising
82% of employees worldwide are at risk of burnout right now. Heavy workloads, poor boundaries, AI job insecurity and weak wellbeing programs are driving it and it's no longer just an HR problem
Gamification in Mental Health
Mental health needs innovation, tools that break stigma, invite engagement, and reach diverse populations. Today, that innovation has a clear name: gamification in mental health.
What global companies can learn from the Nordics
Key lessons from the happiest country in the world, designed for organizations that want to boost engagement, strengthen well-being, and build healthier, more productive workplaces.
What is Positive Psychology
Through games people reflect on their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in a natural way. This makes mental health work more human more accessible and more effective especially in organizations.
Mental Health is Normal
As long as we are alive our beautiful brain will make us feel depressed anxious or emotionally overwhelmed. Why?