Employee wellbeing challenges are one of the most effective ways to increase participation, encourage healthy habits and strengthen workplace culture. GoVida enables organisations to create bespoke workplace wellbeing challenges tailored to their employees, whether physical, mental, educational or social.
Corporate Wellbeing Challenges
Wellbeing challenges bring colleagues together across all parts of your business.
Choose from a library of challenges or build a unique challenge experience.
⚽ Road to the Final
Bring the excitement of tournament football into your workplace with the Road to the Final – a team-based steps challenge inspired by the World Cup.
Participants compete through group stages and knockout rounds, combining their activity to progress, climb the leaderboard, and battle it out for a place in the final.
How it works:
Teams track their daily steps and activities, working together to progress through each stage of the competition.
Top teams advance from the group stage into the knockout rounds, where every step counts in head-to-head matchups.
Why it works
- ⚽ Familiar tournament format that drives engagement
- 🤝 Encourages teamwork and friendly competition
- 📈 Boosts activity through clear goals and progression
- 🏆 Creates excitement with knockout stages and a final showdown
Step Challenges for Employees
A fun and engaging way to stay active – individually or in teams – by progressing through a virtual journey based on your daily step count, points earned, distance cycled, etc.
How it Works:
- Participants unlock a series of milestones
- Each milestone reveals a new location, image, and description.
- Notifications celebrate progress and keep motivation high.
Popular Journeys:
🛣️ Route 66 (USA)
🥾 Landmark Series
🌍 Custom global routes tailored to your business
Why it Works:
✅ Visual, goal-driven format
✅ Keeps teams motivated with regular wins
✅ Customisable to match your culture and locations
Explore, unlock, and move together!
Seasonal Wellbeing Campaigns
Engage teams with challenges inspired by key moments in the year – from global sporting events to awareness weeks and seasonal campaigns.
⚽ Road to the Final
Teams progress through World Cup-inspired stages by logging steps and activities together.
Date: June–July
🚴 Tour de Force
A cycling challenge inspired by the Tour de France, with participants riding through famous stages together.
Date: July
🧠 Mental Health Awareness Week
A wellbeing challenge focused on movement, mindfulness, and supporting positive mental health.
Date: May
🎀 Pink Steps
A charity steps challenge that brings teams together to support breast cancer awareness.
Date: October
🌱 Spring Reset
A seasonal challenge focused on movement, energy, and positive habit-building.
Date: Mar-May
❄️ Escape from the Arctic
A winter adventure challenge where teams race to escape the Arctic wilderness.
Date: Nov-Jan
These are just a few examples – every GoVida challenge can be tailored to your people, goals and calendar.
Plan your wellbeing calendar
We’ll help you build engaging challenges around the moments that matter to your people.
Chaser Challenge
An exciting, high-energy steps-based challenge that brings teams together in a race to catch – or escape!
In the Chaser Challenge, some teams begin with a head start… but can they stay ahead? Other teams are hot on their heels, tracking their progress and working together to catch and overtake them.
Popular Themes:
🏝️ Escape the Island
🕵️ Catch the Spies
How it Works:
- Teams are assigned as Leaders or Chasers
- Progress is based on daily step counts and distance covered.
- Live leaderboards show who’s ahead and who’s gaining ground
Why it Works:
✅ Fun and competitive
✅ Drives daily activity
✅ Maximises engagement across all teams
✅ Great for storytelling and internal comms
Ready, set… don’t get caught!
Mental Wellbeing Challenges
A flexible, inclusive challenge that rewards both body and mind.
How it Works:
Participants earn points for a range of wellbeing activities such as:
- Daily movement (e.g. steps, workouts)
- Mindful moments (e.g. meditation, breathing, journaling)
- Personal growth (e.g. learning, creative hobbies, reading)
Examples include:
Why it Works:
✅ Inclusive – everyone can participate, in their own way
✅ Encourages a holistic approach to wellbeing
✅ Builds daily positive habits
✅ Boosts morale and team engagement
Great for promoting mental wellness, creativity, and connection — not just competition.
Custom Corporate Wellness Challenges
Bring your wellbeing programme to life with exciting, event-driven themes that capture attention and drive engagement.
How it Works:
- Challenges are built around popular events or cultural moments
- Examples include:
- 🏅 Olympics – Go for Gold Team Challenge
- 🌌 May the 4th – Steps of the Rebellion
- 🎃 Halloween – Step Through the Haunted Trail
- Themed content, visuals, and storytelling keep participants engaged
- Teams earn points or unlock milestones tied to the theme
Why it Works:
✅ Makes wellbeing fun, timely, and relevant
✅ Sparks energy and participation across teams
✅ Encourages repeat engagement throughout the year
✅ Easy to align with internal events or seasonal moments
Timely themes turn ordinary challenges into unforgettable experiences.
Diversity & Inclusion Challenge
A unifying, awareness-driven challenge that celebrates people, cultures, and stories across your organisation.
How it Works:
- Participants earn points by engaging in wellbeing activities
- Progress unlocks bios, stories, or fact files about colleagues across different regions, roles, or backgrounds
- Optional team activities encourage connection and conversation
- Content can align with key D&I dates or themes (e.g. International Women’s Day)
Why it Works:
✅ Builds a sense of belonging and team connection
✅ Increases awareness of different cultures and identities
✅ Encourages interaction across departments and locations
✅ Reinforces your organisation’s D&I values in an engaging way
Celebrate your people – every step brings your team closer together.
CSR Challenges
Drive your CSR / charity fundraising and design a challenge around a specific good cause close to your organisation’s heart.
How it Works:
- Participants earn points through wellbeing activities
- Progress contributes towards unlocking charity donations
- Educational content is revealed at milestones (e.g. health tips, awareness messages)
- The challenge can align with key moments like:
- 🎗 Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October)
- 👨 Movember (November)
- 🌍 Custom causes aligned with your CSR goals
Why it Works:
✅ Builds a sense of purpose and shared impact
✅ Raises awareness around important causes
✅ Encourages healthy habits through meaningful action
✅ Strengthens company culture and CSR commitment
Move together, give together – every step makes a difference.
✅ Customisable Team & Solo Challenges
✅ Live Solo & Team Leaderboards
✅ GPS Activity Tracking
✅ Sync with Wearables & Fitness Apps
✅ Track 50+ Activity Types – Physical, Mental & Creative
✅ Venue Check-ins (Gyms, Studios, etc.)
✅ Track Mindful Activities (Meditation, Journaling, etc.)
✅ Track Creative & Development Activities (Art, Music, Learning)
✅ Push Notifications & Challenge Progress Update Emails
✅ In-App Support & Engagement
✅ Challenge Reporting & Insights Dashboard
✅ Full Launch Pack & Marketing Assets
✅ Custom Branding Options
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Employee Wellbeing Challenges FAQs
Employee wellbeing challenges are structured campaigns that encourage colleagues to take part in activities that support their physical, mental and social wellbeing. GoVida makes participation fun through gamification, rewarding healthy behaviours with points, achievements and friendly team competition.
No. While step and activity challenges are popular, GoVida’s gamified platform supports almost any type of wellbeing challenge.
Your organisation can create challenges focused on:
– Walking and physical activity
– Mental wellbeing and mindfulness
– Learning and personal development
– Healthy habits and nutrition
– Sustainability initiatives
– Team collaboration
– Charity fundraising
– Seasonal wellbeing campaigns
– Company values and business objectives
Employees earn points by completing activities, allowing organisations to create engaging experiences that go far beyond counting steps.
Absolutely. Every challenge can be customised to reflect your organisation’s goals, branding and culture.
You can choose from GoVida’s library of proven challenge formats or work with our team to design a completely bespoke challenge around your wellbeing strategy, company events or awareness campaigns.
Yes. Depending on your challenge format, employees can either choose their own teams, be automatically allocated, or compete individually. This flexibility makes it easy to create competitions that suit organisations of every size.
Our team helps you maximise participation from day one. We provide everything needed for a successful launch, including:
– Promotional launch materials
– Branded communications
– Registration support
– Weekly engagement updates
– Progress reports and leaderboards
– Challenge insights to share with your teams
– Celebration content for milestones and winners
Our aim is to make running an employee wellbeing challenge as simple and engaging as possible.
Challenges can run for as little as a week or continue for several months. Many organisations choose four to six week campaigns, while others run seasonal programmes or year-round wellbeing initiatives using GoVida’s flexible platform.
Yes. GoVida’s challenge engine can be themed around almost any wellbeing initiative or awareness campaign, including Mental Health Awareness Week, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Movember, World Environment Day, charity fundraising events and seasonal wellness programmes.
Gamification gives employees a reason to participate consistently. Through points, achievements, leaderboards, rewards and team competition, everyday wellbeing activities become enjoyable and motivating, helping organisations build lasting healthy habits rather than short-term participation.
Challenge Pricing
Challenge Pricing
- One time program or event
- Select from a library of pre set challenges
- Flexible start dates and duration
Challenge Pricing
- One time program or event
- Bespoke challenge creation with dedicated team and onboarding
- Flexible start dates and duration
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