The Global Corporate Challenge® (GCC)
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The Global Corporate Challenge® (GCC)
The Global Corporate Challenge® (GCC) is the only scientifically backed and independently researched event of its kind in the world. That’s why so many of the world’s leading organisations and their CEO’s choose the GCC as the fun and engaging way to create a healthier workforce. It’s the proven way to increase employee wellbeing, organisational productivity, staff morale and teamwork. Employees form teams of seven. Each participant receives a ‘GCC backpack’ that includes pedometers. Over the 16 weeks of the GCC participants record and enter their daily step count (or bicycle and swimming distances) into the GCC website. They receive personalised feedback and reports on their progress. The site plots the team’s progression along a virtual tour of the world. The more active they are, the further they go, the healthier they become, the more productive your organisation becomes. The GCC is measurable, fun and it works. 100,000 participants, from 65 countries and 800 organisations worldwide 12,693 steps or 8kms per day was the average daily step count (that’s 4 times the average office worker and equivalent to 111 cheeseburgers!) 90% of participants completed the 111 day challenge 40% reported an increase in energy levels & fitness levels, improved their sleep and their ability to cope with stress 4.8 kg average self reported weight loss 3,500 tonnes Carbon abatement (70 million black balloons) 94% of participants said that they would continue their new healthy habits after the GCC finished 41% reduction in absenteeism and a $5.90 ROI show in a recent study done by The Foundation for Chronic Disease Prevention (FCDP). Please click here for the full report. The cost to enter a team of 7 participants into the Global Corporate Challenge is $693, which unlike most things in life has not gone up in price since the GCC began in 2004. This equates to $99 per/person or 89 cents/day/person to be exact. Apart from proven physical & medical benefits, participants will receive the following; A Starter Pack that includes; 2 X official GCC pedometers. GCC Walking backpack GCC Walking cap A Welcome Booklet and access to downloadable event guides Login details and full use of the award winning GCC website Monthly “Walk Talk” e-newsletter – to motivate, inspire and encourage people to keep moving Weekly updates on their personal statistics, results and achievements. Chances to win weekly prizes from our sponsors Downloadable personalised certificate of achievement A range of daily meal plans and shopping lists from a nutritionist Many surprises along the way 200 Carlisle Street, St. Kilda, Victoria, 3182 Australia P +61 3 9536 8181 Offices also in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, York (UK) ABN 59 106 332 316 Every participant that takes part in the GCC directly sponsors a child in the Children’s Challenge. The Global Children's Challenge™ engages children at a classroom level to record their activity levels keep healthy and take part in a virtual walk around the world learning about health, nutrition, exercise and the places they visit over the 50 days of the event. Based on the principles of the GCC and reaching out to children early in their development, the Children's Challenge is driven by teachers and is completely free. “The Global Children's Challenge was by far one of the best classroom activities I have been involved with. My students not only became more active, they became more aware of the world. The curricular tie-ins were phenomenal (math; health, social studies; language arts) and we really had fun. Thank you and I am looking forward to next year!” Betty Johnston Miscouche Consolidated School The GCC supports The Iganga Babies Home, a orphanage in the small eastern Ugandan town of Iganga. The children are aged from birth to five years and are accepted into the home under the criteria that “if they are not taken into the home they literally will not survive. The GCC funds vital research every year through the Foundation for Chronic Disease Prevention The GCC prides itself on delivering an evidence-based program, in fact it is the only program of its kind that has been clinically researched and proven. We wouldn’t expect organisations to invest in their people with a program that is not scientifically backed or achieves real results. That is why the GCC has been developed to achieve engagement, motivation and changed health behaviours. Every year Sustainability Victoria (a government agency in Australia) run a survey to measure the environmental impact of the GCC. At the conclusion of the challenge, organisations receive end-of-event statistics including their CO2 abatement for the 11days of the event. In 2010 the overall impact of the GCC was the equivalent abatement of the lifetime abatement of 20,000 trees. Please click here to see the full report. 200 Carlisle Street, St. Kilda, Victoria, 3182 Australia P +61 3 9536 8181 Offices also in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, York (UK) ABN 59 106 332 316