Cultivate gratitude through Challenges

How can you cultivate gratitude and encourage your members acknowledge and express their thanks for others? We've got the tools to help! Discover two ways you can cultivate gratitude using your wellbeing program:

Tip #1: Run a Staged Charity Step Challenge

Nurture a sense of unity toward a charitable goal by launching a Staged Charity Step Challenge!

What is a Staged Charity Step Challenge? While it may seem like a mouthful to say, a Staged Charity Step Challenge honors our standard configuration options from our Step Challenge offering.

• Challenge Theme: Choose a theme from our Staged Challenge Library or customize the Challenge to reflect your charity of choice.
• Team Structure: When planning your Challenge, you can set up the Teams so participants are pre-assigned. Alternatively, you can select from a 5, 8, or 10-player Team Structure so members may join a Team of their choice.
• Participation: The unifying quality across all Staged Challenges—the entire participating population unlocks the Stages by taking steps during the duration of the challenge!
• Benefit: Working toward the same goal will bring a feeling of unity across participants and your organization while boosting motivation at each milestone. At the end of the Challenge, the donation value achieved is announced via email and displayed on a challenge leaderboard on the platform for all to see.

Choosing a Charity for your Challenge: While there are numerous charities with countless more being founded daily, we encourage you and your organization to select one that has meaning to you and your people. Often, your members are more passionate about a certain cause than you may realize, whether that be from a personal experience or even through a coworker.

• Pro Tip: We encourage you to ask your members about what inspires them. If they are working towards a cause they are more passionate about, then the better chance of participating in your challenge.

Tie wellbeing to your philanthropic efforts: Select a charity your members can get behind. Work with your Account Manager or check out some of these tips to help get you started:

• Survey your members to see what inspires them and what they are passionate about in their life, whether personal or through another colleague.
• Check out resources such as GreatNonprofits.org or GiveWell.org to help determine which charity best suits you and your organization if you are having trouble finding one.
• If you run your challenges during the holidays, consider choosing an organization that is centered around the holidays to ensure those less fortunate are supported during that time of year, as well.

Tip #2: Run a Healthy Habit Challenge

Strengthen the habits that help foster gratitude through Promoted Healthy Habit Challenges

What is a Promoted Healthy Habit Challenge? These week-long challenges are centered around a Healthy Habit that stems from one of the Personify Health topics of interest.

• Joining the Challenge: Participants join the challenge and will be greeted with the rules of the game. Plus, they'll receive daily the tips for staying on track.
• Participation: The main interaction for the participants lies in the Yes/No Tracker across each day of the week. Members that follow the daily tips are asked to mark “Yes” for at least five out of the seven days.
• Post-Challenge: After the challenge is over, members can choose to continue to track the Healthy Habit, encouraging a long-term relationship for tracking that habit and making it stick. We also recommend rewarding members who participate to build on the motivation to join and track each challenge!

Healthy Habit Suggestions for Gratitude: To strengthen or build habits around gratitude, Personify Health has a few Healthy Habits in our library that can help you practice cultivating gratitude and happiness. For example, these two Healthy Habits are part of our Building Relationships Topic:

• Appreciate Others: Recognizing others can be a small act with big benefits. Ready to Unlock the power of appreciation?
• Helping Hand: Helping others build relationships, boosts your mood, and increases your self-esteem. This week, seek out opportunities to be helpful.