Your new Habit Tracker has landed just in time for you and your team to resurrect those New Year’s resolutions.
But this time, instead of making resolutions and (probably) breaking them 2 weeks later, we’ve built a way for your team to cultivate and track long-term habits that’ll improve personal wellbeing, protect our planet, and earn some Hero points. Oh, and it integrates perfectly into our Resolution Revolution engagement campaign.
Watch this step-by-step video to see exactly how it works, and read the low-down below for info on how to get your team started with building new habits.
What is the Habit Tracker?
The Habit Tracker allows your teams to – you guessed it – track their habits. So, instead of just accepting a pledge and marking it as completed when you’ve done it, there are now dozens of pledges on the app that can be accepted, and then marked off as ‘done’ each day for a certain period, before eventually being ‘completed’.
Heading to the app to track your progress is like ticking your new habit off your to-do list for the day, or sticking a gold star to your calendar for another successful day using your brand new habit. The science behind habits shows that building new routines can be tricky, so having a place to track progress could be just what your team needs.
How does it work, step-by-step?
Accept a trackable pledge. For this example, let’s say it’s the ‘Coffee Monster’ pledge
Look at the timeframe and repeat rate. In this case, you’ll have to have use a reusable cup instead of a disposable one 5 times in 7 days
Over the next 7 days, as you’re trying out this new habit, head back to the app to track every time you’ve used a reusable cup
When you’ve done it 5 times, you’ve completed the pledge, made progress in developing a brand new habit, and bagged yourself 40 Hero points!
Why is it key for your team’s engagement?
The Habit Tracker is an engagement game-changer for a couple of fundamental reasons.
Streaks and Gamification
The satisfaction of coming back to an app to mark an accomplishment – like a new habit – can be incredibly motivating. The possibility of missing out on a milestone if you don’t head to the app to track your progress can be an even greater factor.
Just look at Duolingo. Its ‘streak’ feature helped it reach a massive 17 million daily active users, and we’re guessing it’s not just because people wanted to make that little owl happy.
By using the Habit Tracker, your people are building towards success each day, making it more likely that they’ll return to OnHand several times to track the same pledge. This means more time on the app, more time browsing other missions and pledges, and more likelihood that they’ll spend more time doing good.
2. Integration into our Resolution Revolution
It’s a new year, and that means everyone’s on a self-improvement kick. If this self-improvement mindset isn’t quite being put into action, our Resolution Revolution is just the thing to help channel it into real, meaningful change.
We’re promoting habits for wellbeing, habits for equality, habits for fighting poverty, habits for charity, and habits for the planet. And they’re all broken down into bite-sized, ready-baked missions for your people to pick up whenever suits them.
The Habit Tracker perfectly integrates into this campaign, as your people can focus on improving themselves and kickstarting the new year, all through a trackable, gamified experience.
How to intro your teams to the Habit Tracker
The best way to get your people on board and engaged with the Habit Tracker is to promote it as part of the Resolution Revolution.
These QR cards are all linked to trackable pledges. Download the cards now, ping them over to your people and they’ll be building brand new habits before you know it.
