How to Build a Wellness Challenge

Wellness challenges keep employees active and engaged, and the challenge builder gives admins control over enrollment, team setup, and visibility. This article walks through creating a challenge, adding a team element, organizing teams and participants, and managing recognition wall visibility.

Creating a Challenge

1. Log in and navigate to the Admin Panel.
2. Select Create a Challenge and choose the map you'd like to use.
3. Enter the challenge settings.
4. Choose how participants join:
5. Add Participants: add employees directly.
6. Invite Participants: send invitations.
7. Skip This Step: allow participants to self-join.

Making It a Team Challenge

To add a team element:

1. Select a map, and in the settings choose Teams instead of Individuals.
2. Choose whether to track the team's average steps or total steps.
3. Once the challenge is created, go to Admin Panel > Teams to set up how your teams are organized.

Setting Up Teams and Participants

Two tools give admins more control over how teams and members are organized:

Batch Team Creation lets you create and upload multiple teams at once. You control each team's name, size, and description, making it easy to organize large groups before the challenge begins.

Member Upload lets you assign employees to specific teams in bulk, rather than waiting for members to self-select during registration or at challenge time.

Recognition Wall Visibility

By default, all challenges post to the recognition wall to congratulate participants who complete the challenge. To turn this off, adjust the setting in the challenge settings.

Challenge Ideas

A few challenge types that tend to drive strong participation:

• Step Challenge — keeps employees moving with friendly competition.
• Turkey Trot Prep — builds up to a 5K with a running or steps challenge.
• Hydration Challenge — simple, accessible, and easy to run alongside anything else.