For your first challenge, we suggest a straight-forward challenge set up with a focus on engagement so participants can learn about the app and get into the habit of syncing their activity frequently.

We also recommend incorporating holistic health resources to round out your challenge experience. You can prompt your users to think about healthy living and increased activity by posting articles and health tips in a content module or by sharing helpful tips and reminders via announcements. With a high focus on engagement, you'll show your employees that you care, and that wellness is easy to incorporate into each day.

Since you won’t have historical activity data for your group to help with setting your first challenge goal, we recommend choosing a modest goal to start. Your goal should be challenging enough to encourage participants to get up and moving, but not too difficult that it discourages lower steppers.

You can reference these common daily averages that we see in our platform if you're not sure of your group’s current activity level:

You can also rely on our personalized goal feature to let users choose their own adventure!

We’ve found that a successful challenge is a mixture of both activity modules and engagement modules. Check out some suggested options you can use for your first challenge below.

Note that each of these challenges is included as a template in the Admin Center. Templates include all details required for challenge creation, including default goals. You can learn more about creating a challenge from a template here.

Set up: Stick to It, Content (“Wellness Challenges - Actionable” collection), Quote

Suggested duration: 14 days

Goal: Complete 7 mini wellness challenges & reach the Stick to It step goal

Our Stick to Wellness challenge was designed as a great way to kick of your program. It incorporates a personalized step goal, letting your users choose how much they want to push themselves. It also includes our “Wellness Challenges” content collection, which includes prompts aimed at supporting overall physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.

Set up: Leaderboard, Streak, Content (“Increasing Movement - Actionable” collection)

Suggested duration: 10 days

Goal: Complete 5 content prompts & reach the Streak step goal

Lead the Way is a straight-forward stepping challenge! It incorporates a Leaderboard to get everyone in the competitive spirit, and has other individual elements to keep all participants motivated to reach their goals. The content prompts include simple ways to build more movement into your day-to-day life, and a personalized Streak goal pushes participants to prioritize moving daily.

Set up: Content (”Picture Perfect Nature Walk” collection), Group Target

Suggested duration: 21 days

Goal: Share photos in chat based on content prompts & reach the Group Target step goal

This challenge gets your group moving outside and focuses on building engagement through chat! The content collection includes a series of scavenger-hunt style prompts for things your users can look for and take a photo of when out on a walk. They can then share their photos in the challenge chat, where they can react and comment on each other’s photos.

Users will also get moving to reach the Group Target goal as a collective. We suggest using our Group goal calculator to generate a realistic goal for your group, based on how many steps you expect everyone to move daily and how many participants join in the challenge. Group Target allows for some rest days and some higher movement days, as participants work together to reach an overall total number of steps during the challenge duration!