Launching your corporate fitness challenge is just the beginning. You’ve carefully planned the challenge type, set clear goals, and determined the duration. Now, as the event goes live, the real work begins. The success of your challenge depends not only on the preparation but also on how well you manage it and engage participants throughout its duration. Here’s how to ensure your event runs smoothly and keeps participants motivated until the very end.

Participant Engagement

Communication is key to keeping participants actively engaged throughout your fitness challenge.

Regular updates by email or on your internal communications systems can help keep the event top-of-mind – you can even take it one step further and enable in-app push notifications. Check out our Communications Hub for materials we’ve created to help your challenge run smoothly.

Incorporating sub-challenges can help to maintain interest and motivation. In a month-long step challenge, for example, adding daily or weekly targets will keep participants engaged with movement throughout the whole challenge.

Encouraging participants to share their experiences on the Event Feed can help to foster a sense of community. When participants see others working towards milestones, it can serve as a powerful motivator, inspiring them to stay committed to their own goals.

Efficient Management

Effective user management plays a key role in the seamless operation of your challenge. Administrators can view participant information to track engagement metrics. This data helps to identify participants who may need additional encouragement or support.

Our knowledge base contains articles for both administrators and participants to get a better idea of how the app works and how to troubleshoot common problems like device connection.

With our Enterprise support plan, we offer detailed training for administrators across your organization to ensure that all administrators have the knowledge needed to manage participant access and troubleshoot any issues that may arise for participants.

Event Wrap-Up

As your event ends, it’s important to maintain momentum and gather insights about the success of the current event and possibilities for future challenges. A good starting point is sending out a wrap-up email (like the one you can find in our Communications Hub). Be sure to summarize key highlights of your event to share your collective wins with participants. You can use this opportunity to announce upcoming events, motivating participants to stay involved and get excited about future events.

Gathering feedback after an event via a survey or poll can help you understand your participants’ motivations and experiences and identify areas for improvement for future challenges.

Remember, too, to thank your participants for embarking on this journey with you. You could choose to highlight top performing individuals or teams if competition was an important part of your challenge. You could even gift participants with swag – like a t-shirt that says “I survived the 2024 Summer Step Challenge” – to remind them of their contribution to the challenge and the company.

Bottom Line

Successfully managing a corporate fitness challenge relies on effective participant engagement, streamlined event management, and a thoughtful wrap-up process. Actively involving participants, effectively coordinating every aspect of the challenge, and making sure your wrap-up does your challenge justice sets the stage for a rewarding and impactful experience for everyone involved.

Ready to take your corporate fitness initiatives to the next level? Schedule a demo with us today to discover how CorporateFitness.app can help you streamline your event management, boost engagement, and maximize results. Let’s make your next challenge a success, together!