Doing good together: active integration of employees from different companies
A challenge that has kept employees engaged for 5 years!
Summary
Preparations
Our employees already know the app well, so every year we try to change something and make it more attractive. This time we added running to cycling, which brought even more people into the challenge.
We noticed, though, that sports competition is not what matters most to participants. What really drives them is the charity goal and the chance to help people in need through simple, everyday activity. That is what motivates them: each on their own, virtually, but still all together!
We also wanted to go further and involve all the group companies in the challenge. We wanted employees who work in different buildings every day and have no contact with each other to get to know each other and do something together in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.
We thought that competition between the companies would liven things up: each participant joined their company's team in the app, so they could follow the team's combined results and its position in the ranking as they went.
The challenge
As the participants themselves pointed out, the rankings and points for regularity were important: people followed them and made sure not to miss a single day of activity.
But after finishing a ride or a run, before they even checked the points they had earned, they always looked first at the amount they had just raised for the charity goal: PLN 3, PLN 9, PLN 20... and with every zloty the main goal of PLN 30,000 seemed more and more within reach!
The participants also chose the foundation together: in a survey they decided to support a children's hospice in Wałbrzych.
Results
In the end the counter stopped at PLN 28,631, and nobody saw that as a failure. Quite the opposite: everyone realized how special it was, what they had achieved together thanks to the cooperation between the company and the employees involved in the competition.
So caught up in helping, they didn't even notice when the third month of the active challenge had passed and healthy daily movement had turned into a habit on its own.
The Activy company challenge gave me a simple, uncomplicated activity (but with a specific goal) as a break from solving problems every day. I also met new people in the company. It started with comparing our results in the app - Izabela, challenge participant
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