Incentive campaigns & wellness challenges are designed to create awareness around healthy behaviors, while providing rewards. Typically 3–8 weeks in length, these powerful programs target risk areas and address total well-being backed by the latest research. 

WELLNESS CHALLENGES OVERVIEW:

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Challenges are the perfect way to infuse healthy habits into your worksite, while building engagement, resiliency and even community! 

 

All programs include everything you need:

• Customization

• Tracking card

• Promotional materials

• Education materials

• Follow-up evaluation

• Optional Registration Systems: Let us take care of facilitating your program registration. Telephonic, online and paper-based registration systems available.​

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WELLNESS CHALLENGE OPTIONS:

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Our top 5 most popular wellness challenges for 2024: 

• Whole-Being Bingo

• Stress Less Challenge

• Happy 'n Healthy: A Resiliency Challenge

• Clean Eating Challenge

• 30 Days of Mindfulness Challenge

 

Below are just a few of our popular incentive campaigns: 

 

Power of Play (4 weeks): While play is usually associated with children’s development, it is also beneficial at all stages of life. Play can add joy to life, relieve stress, supercharge learning, and connect you to others and the world around you. Play can also make work more productive and pleasurable. During this challenge, participants learn about the benefits of play, how define what play means to you, how to integrate play at work and beyond. 

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Fruits & Veggies Score More (4 weeks):

Need a jump-start to eat healthy? Fruits and veggies: Score more! is designed to help increase your intake of fruits and vegetables. Join this challenge to try new fruits and vegetables and share delicious recipes. Learn tips to reach your personal goal through adding more to your diet, not cutting anything out! Each serving of fruits and vegetables will be tallied and added to a final point total. Complete the weekly challenge and receive an additional 5 points.

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100-Mile Step Challenge (4 weeks): Ready to challenge yourself and achieve something amazing? Introducing the 100-Mile Challenge! Whether you're a seasoned walker, runner, or a newbie to fitness, this challenge is designed to help you reach your goals. By tracking your steps and aiming for a total of 100 miles over four weeks, you'll not only improve your fitness but also discover the incredible power of consistency and determination. Join us and let's conquer this challenge, one step at a time!

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Ergo Challenge (3 weeks): This challenge is designed for office workstation employees to learn and adopt practices that reduce physical stress on their bodies. Each week focuses on a different aspect of ergonomic health with daily tasks to complete. In Week One, employees will optimize their desk setup and improve posture. Week Two emphasizes the importance of movement and regular breaks to alleviate strain. Finally, Week Three is dedicated to establishing long-term healthy habits that promote ongoing well-being. By participating in this challenge, employees will gain valuable knowledge and practical skills to enhance their comfort and productivity at work.

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Wellness Buddies (4 weeks): This challenge that fosters a sense of community, promotes social connections, and encourages employees to engage in healthy activities together.

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Simplify Your Life Challenge (3 weeks): Participants learn simple tasks that they can do every day to be more present in life. Complete 15 or more of the 20 challenges, to be entered into a prize pool at the end of the challenge by turning in the completed challenge sheet.

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Gratitude Challenge (30 days): A 30-day gratitude challenge can be an excellent way to foster a positive and supportive work environment. Encouraging employees to express gratitude can enhance their overall well-being, productivity, and job satisfaction. Over the next 30 days, participants will be encouraged to complete various challenges that represent gratitude. Step it up: Give out journals to participants, schedule a meditation teacher during the month or use one of our guided mediations in this challenge. 

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Fight the Fatigue (4 weeks): Fatigue is a common complaint that brings adults to their physicians’ offices, according to Harvard Health Publications. Fortunately, you may be able to change some habits or pick up some new ones that can help your body generate more energy.  During this challenge, participants can try at least 10 out of 14 new techniques every day for 4 weeks to help improve their energy naturally.

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Deep Sleep Challenge (3 weeks): During this challenge, participants will track their current sleep habits for the first week to discover how much they are actually sleeping and what habits are helping or hindering them. For the following two weeks, participants can try at least 10 out of 12 new techniques to help improve the quality of their sleep.

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Superfood Challenge (3 weeks): Participants will learn what superfoods are as well as include these foods in their diet during the challenge. Participants will also try new recipes, learn how to cook/serve these foods, and discover why these foods are considered “superfoods.”

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Whole-being Bingo (3 weeks): Self-Care is what you can do for yourself 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to maintain health, treat minor ailments and manage chronic disease. It includes these seven pillars: health literacy, self awareness, physical activity, healthy eating, risk avoidance, good hygiene, and optimal use of products and services. Self-Care Bingo will help you take active steps to improve your overall well-being and healthcare consumerism.

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Rethink Your Drink (4 weeks): During this challenge, you will track your current drinking habits for the first week to discover how healthy or unhealthy they are. For the following three weeks, you will learn about the hidden calories and sugars in drinks and how to replace them with healthier drink options. You will be challenged to cut your sugary beverages in half for three weeks.

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Stress Less Challenge (3 weeks): Learning the simple techniques presented in this 7 week (or can also be 21-day) challenge will help participants to reduce their stress on the spot. The eight techniques presented in the challenge will allow participants to note their stress level pre and post activity, while allowing each person to determine what works best for him or her.

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Happy 'n Healthy Challenge (3 weeks): There are proven ways we can improve our moods and raise our levels of happiness and resiliency throughout the day. Each activity listed in this 21-day challenge not only provides a quick boost of positive emotions, improving participants performance and focus in the moment; but if performed habitually over time, each has been shown to help permanently raise participants happiness baselines.​​

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Clean Eating Challenge (3 weeks): Clean eating is based on enjoying whole foods – fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and lean proteins instead of pre-packaged, processed foods or fast food. Participants are given one clean eating challenge each day. If they complete 17 out of the 21 challenges, they win!​​

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Total Detox Challenge (4 weeks): During this challenge, participants detox their lives through food, drink, digital consumption, products, relationships and toxic thoughts.

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Hold the Holidays (4 weeks): Participants weigh in with their pre-Thanksgiving weight and sign a contract stating that they will practice healthy diet and exercise habits over the holidays. Participants commit to entering the New Year weighing less, the same, or within two pounds of their initial weight. Weigh-ins are then conducted on a weekly basis.

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New Year, New You (4 or 8 weeks): This program focuses starting the year off stress-free. Each week focuses on goals like sleep, community involvement, organization, nutrition, physical activity, relationships and spiritual health. Participants keep track of goal progress.​

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Deskercise Challenge (4 weeks): Deskercize helps participants increase their movement throughout the day. It includes simple activities that can be done at a desk or in the office to break up activity throughout the day. Moving more throughout the day can help increase energy levels, boost concentration and assist in falling asleep faster. The goal for this program is to strive for improvement and move more each day.

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Strong Bodies (5 weeks): Participants will be emailed an “exercise of the week” (online demonstration video included!) to work on, plus workout tips designed to educate and motivate participants towards their fitness goals. At the end, all exercises can be combined into one, complete strength training circuit for a regular workout routine!

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JustStep! (5 weeks): Teams work to accumulate as many steps as they can, through any type of physical activity. A tracking device works best for this program and so wear your Fitbit or other device to keep track of your steps. Can be set up as individual or team-based.

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30 Days of Mindfulness (4 weeks): Participants learn simple tasks that they can do every day to be more present in one’s own life. While the primary goal is to encourage a greater sense of feeling present, these tasks also result in a greater feeling of calm, easy, empathy, appreciation, gratitude and balance.​

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The Skyscraper Challenge (6 weeks): This program focuses on climbing six of the tallest buildings in the United States. Participants identify the number of steps in their workplace, and track their steps. Each week focuses on a different building. Prizes can be given out weekly to those who completed the building, and to those who completed all six buildings by the end.​

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