‍The best sign that your step challenge worked? People outside the challenge start asking how they can join.

Maybe it started with Sales, one office, or a single department that wanted to try something new. People got competitive, the leaderboard became a daily conversation, and coworkers on other teams started asking how they could get in on it.

That’s the moment a team challenge can become a company program. A company-wide step challenge gives every employee the same invitation, connects teams that rarely work together, and gives HR one program that reaches the entire organization.

Whether you’re the team lead who started it or the HR leader deciding what comes next, here’s what gets better when the whole company gets involved.

Benefits of a Company-Wide Step Challenge for HR and People Teams

For HR, going from one team to the whole company is where a step challenge starts working like a true corporate wellness program.

Give Every Employee Access to the Same Wellness Program

A challenge that’s open to everyone feels like a company program everyone shares. Finance, the warehouse crew, the field team, and the new hire who started Monday all get the same chance to join, and with unlimited challenges on Stridekick Unlimited, one program can cover the whole organization.

Connect Remote, Hybrid, and Global Teams

Remote, hybrid, onsite, field, and international employees can all take part in the same challenge. A team in London, a regional office in Singapore, and coworkers across the U.S. can watch the same leaderboard and chase the same goal, which helps a distributed company feel more connected.

Create One Consistent Experience Across the Organization

A company-wide program gives HR one consistent structure, shared communications, and common goals for every team. Team and Group modes work at every level, from department vs. department to office vs. office to one goal for the entire company. Departments and locations still get their own teams and challenges, all inside one program everyone recognizes. That’s when Stridekick grows from one team’s challenge into part of how the whole organization connects.

Rally the Whole Company Around a Shared Cause

A company-wide goal can stand for something bigger than a step count. Set a collective goal and unlock a donation to a charity of your choice when the group reaches it, so every walk moves the whole organization toward a cause people care about. When leaders join in too, from the CFO to department heads, employees see a program the company genuinely backs.

See Participation and Results Across Your Organization

Give leadership a clear view of what the wellness program is doing. SuperDash shows participation rate, challenge completion, and results for every team in one place, so the story behind the program is always ready to share.

Plan a Full Year of Employee Wellness Challenges

Spend less time planning and more time celebrating. With 100+ ready-to-launch templates, HR can tie challenges to moments it already celebrates, like Heart Month, Mental Health Awareness Month, STEPtember, company kickoffs, new hire onboarding, and giving campaigns. Pick a month, launch the template, and that’s it.

Share the Work With Multiple Challenge Admins

HR gets backup from across the company. With Multi-Admin, up to 10 admins can run challenges, so Internal Comms, office leaders, and department heads can each own a piece of the program. Here’s more on how to let anyone at your company be a challenge admin.

Get More Value From Your Wellness Program

One program means one setup that reaches everyone, instead of separate team-by-team efforts. Dates, communications, and prizes get planned once, and employees join with the device they already use.

Employee Benefits of a Company-Wide Step Challenge

Encourage More Everyday Movement

A walking meeting, a lap around the block at lunch, taking the stairs, or an evening walk with the dog suddenly counts toward something coworkers are doing together. It starts with the movement people already do and gives them a reason to add a little more.

Build Connection Across Departments and Locations

Think about Finance and the warehouse crew, or a new hire in Denver and a VP in Atlanta. A company-wide challenge gives them something easy to talk about that has nothing to do with a project deadline, and Challenge Chat gives them a place to cheer each other on.

Make Your Employee Step Challenge More Inclusive

Individual, team, and group goals give people different ways to succeed. Participants can use different supported trackers or compatible phones, and manual entry and the activity converter, which turns time spent cycling, swimming, or doing yoga into steps, can help even more types of movement count once they’re turned on. Our guide to Stridekick challenge modes and prize strategy for every challenge mode show how to build a challenge with room for everyone.

Create Friendly Competition Between Teams and Offices

East Coast vs. West Coast. Sales vs. Marketing. Headquarters vs. the field. Team Leaderboard ranks teams by average total activity per member, so groups of different sizes compete on even ground. And then comes the most competitive part of any team challenge: choosing the team name.

How Going Company-Wide Benefits the Team That Started It

For the department that ran the first challenge, going company-wide is a well-earned promotion.

Turn Your Team’s Success Into a Company-Wide Model

The team that proved it works becomes the model everyone else follows, and its most enthusiastic participants become the champions other departments turn to.

Challenge Other Departments and Offices

Instead of competing within one team, your group gets to take on other departments and offices. Beating Marketing is fun. Beating Marketing while the whole company watches is even better.

Keep Running Your Own Team Challenges

Multiple admins can run separate challenges at the same time, so your team can keep its own challenge going alongside company-wide events. For ideas, here are 10 ways teams across your company can use Stridekick.

Help Shape What Comes Next

The team that ran the first challenge knows what worked, what people loved, and what they’d change. That experience makes them the natural voices to help pick formats, themes, and prizes for company-wide challenges, and to plan the ones that follow. We’ve written more on why you shouldn’t run just one challenge.

How to Pitch a Company-Wide Step Challenge to HR

If you’re the one who started it, you already have the best pitch there is: proof.

One team we worked with planned for 50 participants and ended up with 118. Their results are now fueling the conversation about what comes next.

Bring HR a few numbers from your first challenge, like participation and total steps, plus the moments people loved. The leaderboard rivalry, the walking meetings, and the coworkers asking when the next one starts all tell the story. Then invite HR to join the next round and see it firsthand.

Our guide to expanding your step challenge from one team to the whole company walks through the full playbook, and these 12 ways to launch your step challenge with a bang help you kick off the bigger version.

Start a Company-Wide Step Challenge With Stridekick

Stridekick Unlimited is built for company-wide challenges, with unlimited challenges, all 11 challenge modes including Team and Group formats, challenges up to 90 days, up to 10 admins, SuperDash reporting, and a dedicated account manager. Employees join with the device they already use.

Already running Stridekick with one team or department? Talk to your account manager about bringing the rest of your organization into your next challenge.

New to Stridekick? Explore Stridekick Unlimited and see what a company-wide challenge could look like for your organization.

Company-Wide Step Challenge FAQs

What is a company-wide step challenge?

A company-wide step challenge is a step-based corporate wellness program that invites employees across departments, offices, locations, and regions into the same challenge. Participants can track activity individually, compete as teams, or contribute toward one shared goal.

Why run a step challenge company-wide instead of one department at a time?

A company-wide step challenge gives every employee access to the same program, connects teams and locations that rarely interact, and gives HR one place to see participation and results. Departments can still run their own challenges alongside it.

What features matter in a company-wide step challenge program?

Look for support for the devices employees already use, including phones; team and group modes with fair scoring for teams of different sizes; reporting HR can share with leadership; multiple admins; and ready-made templates for planning the year. Stridekick Unlimited includes all of these, plus our annual plans include unlimited challenges throughout the year.

Can departments still run their own challenges if the company goes company-wide?

Yes. On Stridekick Unlimited, up to 10 admins can run separate challenges at the same time, so department challenges and company-wide events can run side by side.

Can employees in different locations and countries join the same challenge?

Yes. Teams across offices, regions, and countries can participate in the same Stridekick challenge. Participants sync activity from supported fitness trackers or compatible phones, so they don’t need to be in the same place or use the same device.

How do you keep a team step challenge fair for teams of different sizes?

Stridekick’s Team Leaderboard ranks teams by average total activity per member. Each team’s combined steps are divided by its number of members, so smaller and larger teams compete on the same scoring model.