Let the games begin: How Google utilized this training platform to connect new team members

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Teamwork makes the dream work — but for Google’s new employee relations care team, which consists of six people across three countries and four time zones, fostering teamwork among these strangers was shaping up to be a bigger challenge than normal.

For help, the technology titan enlisted KeepWOL, a talent development platform that uses live multiplayer games and AI technology to create virtual team-building exercises. KeepWOL, which launched in 2018 and works primarily with large enterprises, hosted a learning and development event where the specialist team played an interactive virtual game together to get to know each other — and to learn about themselves, too. 

Paola Peralta
Associate Editor

Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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