Posted by Corporate Wellness | Posted in Corporate Wellness | Posted on 19-09-2008
Wellness Challenges Are Popping Up Everywhere
Wellness Challenges are definitely hot right now and they are encouraging more and more people to get healthy and live better. Whether it is a city or a school or a social group or even a whole state, competitive spirits are being ignited by the challenge to be the healthiest team. The Wellness Challenges are usually about a six months to a year in length and they are made up of several teams, these teams all get points for physical activity, selecting healthy foods, and just making better life and health choices overall.
The best part about Wellness Challenges is even though there really is only way “real” winner; everyone that participates in the challenge is a life winner.
Wellness Challenges offers Incentive to Get Healthy
Establishing a Wellness Challenges in your office is a great way to get staff members to participate in your established Corporate Wellness Program. Have staff members form teams and receive points for everything from attending a Corporate Wellness Fair to getting a health risk assessment to starting an exercise regimen. At the end of the year, the teams will win prizes based on the number of points they have accumulated.
Wellness Challenges improve Corporate Health
Not only will Wellness Challenges improve the health of your staff members, it will improve the overall health of the corporation by providing benefits such as reduced injuries, reduced frequency of worker’s comp, reduced health care costs, better staff member attendance, and better corporate morale.
Like we said earlier, everyone is a winner in a Wellness Challenges!