Wellness Challenges – a Fun Way to Enhance Teamwork

How Wellness Challenges strengthen team collaboration and increase productivity

Wellness Challenges can be a fun way to encourage teamwork but how can we do them?

Have you ever considered rebooting your work teams and, just like your laptop, a refresh to your work system?? If you want to keep your business growing and developing, Wellness Programs work like a kick-start to boost your employees’ motivation and collaboration.

Teamwork productivity follows the simple rule of 1+1 = 3 (the rule of synergy): the stronger the collaboration and understanding among the team, the greater the productivity.

Early school education taught us the basic rule for success: “Unity is Strength.”? Thus, to ensure maximum productivity and service quality with profitability, you must boost the teamwork of your work team.

Wellness challenges are fun-filled activities that are collaborated in your business's Corporate Wellness program.

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Why should we do Wellness Challenges?

According to the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, humans long for belonging.? Wellness programs can fulfill this basic human desire–as they bring your employees together and help them engage in healthy activities.

You can turn boring meetings and virtual workshops into engaging, fun, joyful, yet productive activities to revitalize your team.? As part of your business's development strategy, these programs/activities will not stress out your employees but rather involve every employee in creating a caring, thoughtful, and happy work environment.

This blog will help you how you can boost your team collaboration with some fun-filled yet innovative and productive activities.

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Healthy eating makes a healthy environment

Studies by Grimani et al. (2019) show a significant relationship between healthy eating behaviors and production job performance by employees.? Excessive fast food and unhealthy eating behaviors lead to increased weight gain, obesity, mental stress, and other weight-related diseases.? This may include Cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes, or even depression and lethargy.

Suppose you want to cut the expense of productivity loss due to employee poor health, poor performance due to sickness, and absenteeism.? In that case, you must read the following activities to promote a healthy work environment.

a) Eat-healthy challenge

You must organize a healthy eating challenge once a week or for the whole month.? In this activity, every employee is asked to bring a nutritious lunch from home.? Then, at lunchtime, the table will be set with all the lunch meals, and the best healthy meal will get the reward.? You could even extend it further by asking them to explain their choices and benefits.? Sharing will empower the employee and the education shared will bond the team.

b) Fruit day

Like in our school days, let's relive that fun.? Arrange a fruit day once every week, ask the employees to bring fruits of a specific color and also that day wear clothes of that specific color.? For example, for Apple Day, red-colored dresses and fruits will be the challenge.? Make it a competition of teams or departments!

c) No Fast-food day

This can also work as a training program to quit fast-food eating habits and to control weight.? Challenge avoiding fast food, that means no one will be allowed to eat fast-food on that day, maybe three times every week.? The employee winning this challenge for the whole month will win a reward.? Set up accountability partners for team building or confidential weigh ins with a winner each month.

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A healthy mind nurtures a healthy body

Physical activities and challenges are the most interesting ones, filled with fun and joy.? They are healthy competition that enhances a physically active lifestyle.

Let's dig in! Learn 5 ways to improve your team's health and their mental well-being.

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