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Competitions

Your all-in-one guide to setting up competitions

Setting up competitions is a great way to boost employee engagement and create amazing impact. We’ve got all you need in our step-by-step guide to get you started with setting up your own competitions.

Follow our guide details on each section, or download our guide to keep a copy for yourself!

Overview

Our competition guide is split into these five parts:

Teams

Setting up teams is key to running successful competitions. After all, nothing’s more motivational than some healthy competitive spirit between teams!

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Time period

Whether it’s annual, quarterly, or custom, make sure to define your dates, so your people know how long they’ve got to smash the competition.

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Incentives

Real rewards make a real difference, whether that means a donation to a charity of their choice, trees planted on their behalf, or simple gift vouchers

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Communication

If you want to keep your teams engaged and feeling that competitive spirit, make sure you’re keeping up consistent competition comms.

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Factors

There are a couple of different factors you may want to consider, like adjustments to account for different team sizes or raising the points for certain missions.

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Will it work? It’s in the numbers!

We looked at the stats of some of our client base who use competitions to see how it increased engagement rates

Study 1

Yellow square blocks that read 'Users: 93% increase' 'Action/user: 134% increase' and 'Action: 353% increase'

Competition: 12 Missions of Xmas

Study 2

Teal square blocks that read 'Users: 13% increase' 'Action/user: 41% increase' and 'Action: 59% increase'

Competition: Annual CO2e competition