How it works
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.
The program uses an an online toolkit to provide a step-by-step guide and associated resources that equip a workplace to adopt and deliver the eight-week program. The program can be run in one team or multiples teams with each work team collectively identifying and promoting strategies to support these behaviours that best suit their unique workplace and culture. The toolkit also provides an organisation the ability to manage and track multiple work teams participating in the program via a unique overseer dashboard.
There are three types of roles within the BeUpstanding program.
A person can have the rights of all three levels of user (i.e., an overseer can also be a champion and a staff participant).
ONLY the person who will be the overseer should do the Sign Up to the program.
Program Stages
Set up.
Sign up, build your teams and assign a champion to run the program in each team. Champions send out surveys to staff to benchmark their teams starting position.
Stand up.
Champions use the BeUpstanding resources to carry out cultural and environmental changes that promote more movement at your workplace.
Wrap up.
Staff participants complete a follow-up survey to evaluate the impact on your teams' physical and mental health. Teams commit to the most effective strategies going forward.
Set up.
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/s starts by auditing your workplace and running an anonymous staff survey to understand your baseline position.
Stand up.
Together, and with the guidance of the BeUpstanding resources, your teams 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.
Wrap up.
After 8 weeks, have your teams complete our post-program survey. We’ll generate a report that tracks and evaluates the impact the changes have had on your teams' 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.
Make a move.
Sitting less has great benefits for your workers’ and your organisation’s health. Be the one to start the change in your workplace.
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