The single biggest Challenge you will face when trying to boost engagement and productivity in your workplace is getting your employees on board with your chosen initiative.

How do you persuade a disengaged team to engage in an activity aimed at boosting engagement?

At the Virgin Pulse Global Challenge, our answer is simple: entertain them into it.

This year 400,000 Participants – including Sir Richard Branson – will step up to a virtual journey of physical activity, healthy eating, stress resilience, sleep quality and better habits. All of these elements add up to a better bottom line for business.

With the program kicking off this month, on May 24, we break down how the Global Challenge can make a difference in your business.

• It’s a team thing. By placing people in teams of seven, we ensure employees have the moral support – and the peer pressure – they need to carry on. For businesses, departmental and geographical silos break down. Employees begin to communicate and connect in an engaging way, all joined under a culture of wellbeing.
• It’s simple. Although the Global Challenge is based on behavioural science and data, the central principles of the program we share with your team are simple, and anyone can do it. This breaks down the barriers that prevent many people from starting in the first place. Specifically, eliminates the fear that the program will be too hard and employees won’t be able to do it.
• It’s converts to culture and outcomes. The program helps employers understand the difference between an aspiration and outcome. Often, the starting point is to say, ‘I want my employees to get healthy, or to collaborate and engage more’. But you can’t design directly for those things. You need to translate them down to specific behaviours – like social time, or walking meetings – and the Global Challenge 100-day structure provides the framework to do that. It also provides in-depth reporting before, during and after the challenge.

Results show that post-Global Challenge …

• 58% of employees reported an increase in either their productivity or concentration¹
• 69% of employees reported a decrease in their stress levels either at home or at work
• 69% of participants met the recommended amount of sleep
• 62% of employees improved their energy levels

Get results in your organisation. Save your seat in the 2017 Global Challenge.

¹2016 Final Report. Global Challenge. (Based on: 290,494 participants who answered the starting survey. 124,011 participants who answered the end survey. 120,188 participants who answered both the start and end surveys.)