BeUpstanding makes it easy to implement suitable, sustainable changes so that your staff can stand up, sit less and move more throughout their work day.
Sign up, build your team and assign a champion to run the program. Use our survey to benchmark your team’s starting position.
Use the BeUpstanding resources to carry out cultural and environmental changes that promote more movement at your workplace.
Complete a follow-up survey to evaluate the impact on your team’s physical and mental health. Commit to the most effective strategies going forward.
Sign up and complete your profile to unlock your BeUpstanding dashboard containing all the steps, tools and resources you’ll need to run the program.
A team champion starts by auditing your workplace and running an anonymous staff survey to understand your baseline position.
Together, and with the guidance of the BeUpstanding resources, your team will choose and implement a number of strategies to promote less sitting at your workplace.
Behaviour change needs time to take root. We recommend spending 8 weeks to activate the cultural and environmental changes you decide to enact.
After 8 weeks, have your team complete our post-program survey. We’ll generate a report that tracks and evaluates the impact the changes have had on your team's sitting and activity, physical and mental health, job satisfaction and other metrics.
Your organisation can then choose which strategies to commit to for the long-term to create effective, sustainable change.
The BeUpstanding program has been included in a national trial funded by the NHMRC. This allows us to offer a limited number of organisations access to free support from an expert coach to help you set up and run BeUpstanding. Contact us to find out more.
Sitting less has great benefits for your workers’ and your organisation’s health.
Be the one to start the change in your workplace.
The BeUpstanding Champion Toolkit is brought to you by researchers at the School of Public Health, The University of Queensland.
For additional support services related to BeUpstanding, contact the team at The University of Queensland at beupstanding@uq.edu.au.