Like Darkest Dungeon but for Work

Post date: 2018-01-18 16:40:47

I am looking for a team/employee management tool that is as fun to use as the party/estatement management screens in Darkest Dungeon (or any other well made RPG adventure party type games). Or, more boringly, I'm looking for a CRM but for teams/employees.

I manage a team of high performers. They are great! I seriously love working with them, and I want to be a better manager by keeping better track of some very specific things, like:

-Skill levels
-Stuff they enjoy working on, stuff they hate working on
-How much time they have taken off (so I can tell them to take time off and not get burnt out)
-Weird things that might not be relevant today, but might be relevant someday
-Important discussions we have had that I want to be able to come back to later
-Goals
-Metrics

I already have a lot of these things, but they are spread out in text files, notebooks, excel sheets, tracking tools I've built over time, in-house tools, etc...and I've reached a point where I want to consolidate ALL of these into one place, one thing that I can always have at the ready.

If I had my druthers, I would have something akin to the Darkest Dungeon interface, but for my team:

- Quests would be projects
- Character sheets would be where their skills and goals and things go
- Sending them to the sanitarium/tavern/etc would be like telling them to take some PTO, or sending them to a training or what have you

I've searched and searched, but I can't find anything that seems to fit the bill. Most of it is very HR/Payroll/Talent Management focused and doesn't seem to have all of these features in one place. I want it to be fun, and streamlined, and be like an extension of what I do.

I am seriously thinking about building it myself (e.g. I started to prototype it in Airtable), but I would love, love, love if there was already something out there that works like this. Also, it doesn't have to be "gamified" or video-game-esque per se, the key ask here is that it's like a CRM for me to manage my relationship with my team members better.

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