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Step 1: Sign up your group
Step 2: Get world-class engagement
Step 3: Have happier, healthier employees
How Much is Poor Wellness Performance Costing You?
Most businesses struggle to get their employees to engage with their wellness programs. When your wellness initiatives don’t engage…
- Employees stop participating in your wellness programs part way through
- Your wellness ROI falls flat
- Employees check out on company culture, vision and goals
- Nobody signs up for your events
- Employees get bored and turnover increases
- You spend a fortune on healthcare costs that keep rising every ear
Wellness should be engaging and it should work, but most companies don’t know how to drive sustained engagement. Instead, they waste money on wellness programs that only get a fraction of employees involved and then fail to maintain interest for the few who do. Sign up for A Step Ahead and you’ll finally get the wellness engagement you’ve been looking for.
The Ultimate Corporate Walking Challenge
A Step Ahead™ is a revolutionary game-based virtual walking challenge developed by veterans of the video game industry. The results speak for themselves…
94.4%
Average retention for challenge duration
32.5%
Average participation increase over historical wellness programs
4.8/5
Rating for Apple and Android apps with thousands of reviews
We’re proud that these are verifiable performance results, not soft “users report” answers to carefully worded survey questions.
There are 3 ways you can engage your employees with A Step Ahead. Which one is right for you?
Option 1
Annual Game-Based Wellness
Want year-round access to the most engaging walking challenges in the world? Your employees will love our full catalog of game-based step challenges.
Affordable pricing with unlimited access to all of our challenges for your employees all year long.
Perfect for: Companies looking to keep their employees engaged in healthy activity year-round with best-in-class results.
Option 2
Single Game-Based Challenge
Want a single step challenge to serve as a standalone event to supplement your existing corporate wellness? Any of our challenges can be had a-la-carte. Challenges range in length from 2-6 weeks and each has a unique setting, storyline and more.
Perfect for: Companies who want to blow the doors off their wellness with a standalone event.
Option 3
Concierge For Enterprise
Want us to handle everything for your large group so you can just sit back and get world-class results? With our concierge service for enterprise you won’t have to lift a finger. We’ll handle everything for setup, registration, marketing, execution and reporting. Whether you have a large group with complex needs or just want the white glove treatment, we’re ready to get you next-level results.
Perfect for: Companies who want world-class engagement without having to lift a finger.
“If one thing is clear, it’s that the game works.”
“Who wouldn’t want to turn as many co-workers as possible into zombies?”
“When the gaming came in, that other 25 percent all got engaged.”
“…one of the best ways to get reluctant adopters onboard is to disguise their task within a game.”
“They are attracting participants who may have previously kept their distance from the company’s health program.”
“The social connectivity pushes players to not quit on their friends.”
“By applying game theory to work practices, employees will naturally become more driven.”
Sign up your group
Create a turnkey walking challenge online in seconds or let our full-service concierge service do everything for you from start to finish.
Get world-class engagement
No more wellness initiatives that fall flat. With A Step Ahead you’ll finally get your employees engaged and keep them interested.
Have happier, healthier employees
Your employees will have a blast working together to get more active. That means a happier, more engaged staff that costs less to insure.
A Step Ahead is Used by the World’s Top Brands Plus Thousands of Small Businesses
A Walking Challenge That’s… Fun?
More than just another 10,000 steps program with a map and leaderboard, A Step Ahead challenges your employees to team up in a story-driven health challenge where their real-life steps and activity translate into progress across a virtual game board.
#1 For Employee Engagement
We have set new participation records for literally every group we’ve ever worked with, and we maintain participation. 94.4% of participants remain active through to the end of our challenges with an even distribution across gender and age groups, even the hard-to-reach 40-59 age range. Nothing else even comes close.
#1 For Corporate Team Building
A Step Ahead was designed, and conceived of, as a team-based game. Surviving a mission requires collaboration and teamwork. Teams can be local, remote, or blended, and can be spread around the globe, all within the same challenge.
Why Other Wellness Challenges Crash and Burn
You’ve signed your company up for a gamified wellness challenge. Expectations are high, but fewer employees register than you’d have hoped, and engagement takes a huge plunge after the first week or two. Only a fraction of the employees you paid for are actually participating by the end, and the whole thing feels like a lot of work for underwhelming results. Sound familiar?
Traditional wellness challenges are designed by corporate wellness professionals who may know a lot about biometric screenings and gym classes, but nothing about the psychology of engagement.
The word “gamification” has taken root in recent years, but it’s a trap. It refers to adding superficial elements common in games, like badges, achievements and leaderboards, to non-game experiences. The problem is that the real engagement in games doesn’t come from those superficial elements, it comes from the underlying game design and feedback loops.
That’s why other wellness challenges can’t match our engagement. They were designed as wellness challenges, not games. We took the opposite approach, and the results consistently break records.
Why A Step Ahead is Different
A Step Ahead is the result of video game designers looking at a traditionally boring product category and saying, “If we were going to design a health challenge, what would it look like?”
Our hypothesis was that if we could make physical activity as entertaining as the shows and games that people engage with in their spare time, we could “trick” the brain into prioritizing physical activity comparably to other entertainment products.
We approached the design from the standpoint of creating a team-based game where progress is derived from real-world activity, not from trying to layer game elements on top of a walking program.
The results exceeded our expectations. We regularly set new participation records for our clients, the engagement sustains across entire challenges, and there’s an even engagement distribution across gender and age groups, even the hard-to-reach 40-59 age range.
