Wellness Challenges
Engage your workforce, encourage healthy habits, and build stronger team connections with wellness challenges. Whether your employees are in the office or working remotely, challenges bring people together around shared goals. If you’re looking to strengthen culture and support employee well-being in a meaningful way, challenges are where it starts.
Why Wellness Challenges Work
Workplace wellness challenges aren’t just about fitness – they’re a smart strategy for driving engagement. With clear goals, friendly competition, and built-in gamification, challenges create an experience employees genuinely enjoy and want to stick with.
Wellness challenges help organizations:
Boost participation across well-being initiatives
Encourage lasting healthy habits
Strengthen team connection through shared goals
Track progress with measurable outcomes and actionable data
Foster a positive, health-focused workplace culture
Support inclusive participation no matter the fitness level
Support Every Pillar of Health
CoreHealth’s challenges cover every major dimension of wellbeing, including:
- Physical Activity
- Nutrition
- Weight Management
- Mental & Emotional Wellbeing
- Financial Wellbeing
- Social & Community
Enjoy a hassle-free experience with pre-configured challenges running every month — just set it and go!
Prefer more freedom? Anytime challenges for teams or individuals are also available whenever you’re ready to start.
Challenges can be used as-is or edited into something completely unique to fit brand and culture. Run wellness challenges in whichever format best suits your people:
- Individual challenges
- Personal challenges
- Buddy challenges
- Team challenges
How To Launch a Challenge
Bring your next challenge to life in just a few easy steps:
1. Pick a Starting Point
Choose from templates or create a custom challenge that fits your goals.
4. Track and Celebrate
Monitor engagement in real time, recognize achievements, and reward progress.
2. Set the Details
Decide the format — individual, team, or buddy and configure your dates, tracking metrics, and incentives.
3. Launch and Promote
Invite participants, spark friendly competition through leaderboards and message boards, and promote the challenge with built-in communication.
Pick a Starting Point
Choose from a ready-made template or create a custom challenge that fits your goals.
Set the Details
Decide the format — individual, team, or buddy and configure your dates, tracking metrics, and
incentives.
Launch and Promote
Invite participants and fuel competition on leaderboards and messageboards.
Track and Celebrate
Monitor engagement in real time, recognize achievements, and reward progress.
Gamification & Real-Time Tracking
Wellness challenges work best when progress feels personal and participation feels exciting. With built-in gamification and wearable device syncing, CoreHealth keeps employees motivated by making wellness feel like a rewarding journey – not another task on their to-do list.
From interactive maps to achievement badges, employees get instant feedback that keeps them engaged and coming back for more.
- Virtual maps and milestones
- Leaderboards for fun, friendly competition
- Badges and achievement levels
- Points and rewards tied to incentives
- Instant progress updates from wearables
FAQ’s
What types of wellness challenges can we run?
CoreHealth supports a range of challenge formats, including individual, buddy, and team challenges. Challenges can focus on areas like physical activity, nutrition, mental and emotional wellbeing, financial wellbeing, social/community wellbeing, and health awareness, using ready-made templates or custom setups.
Can we customize challenges to fit our culture?
Yes. You can use challenges as-is or tailor them to reflect your organization’s brand and culture by adjusting things like the look and feel, messaging, tracking metrics, rules, and incentives.
How do employees track progress?
Participants can track progress through dashboards with built-in activity tracking and engagement tools like leaderboards, badges, milestones, and progress updates. Where applicable, progress can also be supported through wearable device syncing for more seamless updates.
What rewards are available?
Rewards are flexible and can be aligned to your program. CoreHealth supports options such as points-based incentives and recognition elements (like badges, leaderboard placement, or internal “bragging rights”), depending on how you configure the challenge. Reward fulfillment is also supported through our partner network.
Are wellness challenges good for distributed teams?
Absolutely! Challenges create a shared experience that helps connect people across teams by using common goals, progress tracking, and friendly competition, which can work well across different groups and locations.
Get Started with Wellness Challenges Today
Launch workplace wellness challenges that inspire movement, build healthier habits, and bring your employees together.