Team of colleagues gathered around a laptop in a meeting room checking their wellness challenge leaderboard

Corporate Wellness
Challenge Team Building

Bring your team together, wherever they are. Turn wellness into an engaging team experience.

Virtual Team Building for Remote Teams

Shared wellness challenges can be one of the more effective ways to connect distributed teams — without requiring everyone to be in the same room.

Remote and hybrid teams often miss the informal moments that build trust: the shared lunch, the impromptu conversation between desks, the low-stakes interaction that makes colleagues feel like more than a job title on a call. A structured wellness challenge can help recreate some of that dynamic in a virtual setting.

When employees are working toward a common goal — whether that's a collective step target or a shared progress milestone — they have a natural reason to check in on each other. Teams can share updates and celebrate milestones through communication tools like Slack or Microsoft Teams, creating visibility across departments and seniority levels that might not exist day-to-day. Employees who participate in shared workplace activities often report stronger connections with colleagues and a greater sense of belonging [1].

GAMIFICATION

Gamification That Brings People Together

When the whole company works toward a shared goal, wellness becomes something employees experience together — not alone.

Company-wide challenges work particularly well as a team-building format because every participant contributes to the same outcome. Whether the goal is a collective number of sessions completed or a shared progress milestone, each employee's effort is visible and counts toward something bigger than their individual result.

This structure tends to prompt more interaction than privately tracked wellness programmes. When employees can see each other's progress — and know their own contribution is seen — they have a natural reason to check in, cheer each other on, and talk about the challenge across the working week. Shared milestones also give HR and managers low-effort moments to acknowledge the team publicly, creating positive touchpoints that work across seniority levels and locations.

The BetterMe Business challenges can all be run company-wide, with participation visible to the whole team through shared leaderboards and progress tracking in the app.

Organizations with highly engaged employees achieve 23% higher profitability than those with low employee engagement [2]
  • Company-wide goals
  • Shared progress
  • Peer recognition
  • Leaderboards

Why BetterMe Business Is an Effective Team Building App

BetterMe Business is designed to make wellness visible — so participation becomes a shared team experience rather than a private, individual one.

We support team-wide wellness challenges with shared leaderboards, visibility into colleagues' progress, and participation tracking across teams of any size. HR teams can monitor engagement in one place, and employees can see how their contribution connects to a broader team goal — creating a sense of shared effort that works whether a team is co-located or spread across multiple time zones.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why have a corporate wellness programme?

Companies implement wellness programmes as an effective team-building tool. Beyond individual well-being, structured challenges may help unite remote and hybrid teams, give employees a shared goal to work toward, and contribute to a stronger sense of company culture and belonging. Research suggests that employees who participate in shared workplace wellness activities may report higher feelings of connection with colleagues [1].

How do leaders support corporate wellness?

Successful team building tends to start with visible leadership involvement. When managers and senior leaders actively participate in wellness challenges — sharing their progress, celebrating team milestones, and engaging with the same goals as their teams — participation rates across the organisation often follow. BetterMe Business makes it straightforward for leaders to join team challenges and contribute to shared goals alongside their employees.

What makes a corporate wellness challenge effective for team building?

The most effective formats combine a shared company-wide goal with social visibility. Challenges where employees can see each other's progress — through a leaderboard or shared updates — tend to prompt more peer interaction than privately tracked programmes. Collective milestones and individual recognition moments can also help maintain momentum beyond the first week, giving employees ongoing reasons to stay engaged.

Can wellness challenges work for fully remote teams?

Yes — and in some cases, remote teams may benefit more from structured wellness challenges than office-based ones, because the informal moments that typically build rapport are harder to replicate at a distance. A shared wellness challenge gives distributed employees a common experience and a natural reason to interact throughout the week.

How do I get employees to participate in a team wellness challenge?

Participation tends to be stronger when challenges are easy to join, have a clear goal, and offer some social visibility — so employees feel their contribution is seen. Leadership involvement is also consistently associated with higher employee participation. Starting with an accessible goal in the first challenge can help build the habit of participation before raising the bar in future rounds.