The strength of teams is the success of the company: Why you should bet on sports teams in a challenge
Why is it worth betting on sports teams in a challenge? Examples of team rankings in Activy projects and benefits for the company.
In times when concern for employees' fitness and well-being is becoming a pillar of modern organizational culture, the answer to the growing need for integration and mobilization are sports challenges with both individual and team rankings. This model, based on forming teams (departments, countries, or cities) and summing up their achievements, offers benefits that cannot be achieved through individual rivalry alone.
1. Effective Integration: Building Collaboration
Challenges based on team rivalry are the best form of integration, even after work. Employees from different divisions or departments join forces to earn points together. Team-based rivalry, often with elements of surprise, strengthens bonds:
- Breaking barriers: Competition naturally forces communication and cooperation. SKF used a random approach to maximize this effect: one year, employee teams were mixed with participants, aiming to increase integration between people from different departments and animate their interactions.
- Increased attachment to the company: The team result strongly cements relationships and builds greater loyalty to the organization, providing a great topic for conversation.
Do you want integration in your company to grow? Reward teams created by the employees themselves in the app! They will join any teams, set their logo and name, and competition with others will surely drive them to move and interact.
2. Mobilization for Everyone
The most important advantage of team rivalry is its universality and inclusive nature. In individual rankings, usually a narrow group of the best athletes triumphs. In the team format, the success is determined by the commitment of the entire group of employees.
- Consistency matters: Activy's scoring system rewards regularity and the number of participants. Thanks to this, every person feels they have a real contribution to the team's success.
- Virtual group challenges: A perfect example of how to motivate entire groups for a joint effort is the action at InPost. There, 7-person teams were created, modeled after cycling teams during the Tour de France race. Employees covered the entire race distance together.
3. Positive Image and Employer Branding
Supporting employees' sports activity has a direct impact on the perception of the company as a modern and caring employer.
- Global dimension and charitable goals: Team rivalry often combines sport with social responsibility. Raben Group, organizing a challenge for employees from all over Europe, introduced a division by countries. The competition had a dual goal, and the winning countries decided on the distribution of budgets for charitable purposes.
Are you running an international challenge and want to send tailored communication depending on the country? Or download separate reports for each country? Divide employees by nationality in the system and do it with a few clicks on the Activy project administrator platform.
4. Concrete Benefits for Business
Investing in sports teams is an investment in human capital, but also a tool for managing a multi-branch and dispersed structure.
- Better health and reduced absenteeism: Improved physical and mental fitness of employees translates into lower stress levels and less sick leave.
- Support for local leaders and convenient reporting: Team ranking is particularly useful in large, dispersed organizations. In FORVIA, which has many factories, a separate ranking was created for each location. This division allowed for structuring reporting and distinguishing local leaders.
Are you wondering which location's employees are most likely to cycle to work? Enable assigning to teams representing cities/branches and download specific reports!
Do you want to select leaders from each location without manual work? Turn on the city team ranking and monitor how the statistics automatically arrange themselves, indicating the most engaged branches and their managers.
Sports challenges based on team rivalry are more than just a game – they are a strategic HR tool that uses the natural need for competition and belonging, transforming it into better fitness, more effective cooperation, and overall organizational success. In this format, it is not the fastest individual who triumphs, but above all, the most cohesive team.
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