Steptember 2024: A month of wellbeing & connection
Spring at CTO Labs means a month of wellbeing, community and connection, through RUOK Day activities, our annual step challenge and a donation to the RUOK Day campaign.
Once again the CTO Labs team kicked off Spring with a month dedicated to wellbeing, community and connection.
RUOK Day
We held afternoon teas in Sydney and Melbourne for RUOK? Day, focusing on this year's theme Ask R U OK? Any Day and completing a shared activity on gratitude, part of building connections and mental resilience.
Step Challenge
We took on our second annual September Step Challenge (Steptember). Once again, if three quarters of the team signed up to the challenge, CTO Labs would donate the equivalent of a month of weekly morning teas to the RUOK Day campaign. This recognises the deep connection between the values of our business and the important work they do.
Results are in
This year we achieved a huge 80% participation with most signing up from the week 1.
The competitive stakes were steep with co-founder Josh laying down an early challenge to beat him on overall step count.
There were some impressive stats by the end with the team completing 2.7 million steps, covering almost 2,000 kilometres. That’s like walking from Sydney to Melbourne and back!
There were also amazing individual efforts such as David having a huge 32k step day and Nicole nailing a whopping 28 out of 30 days over 10k steps! However, no-one could beat Josh who amassed almost 400k steps to take the win!
Having exceeded our participation target, we closed out the month with a donation to the RUOK Day campaign, in support of the work they do in suicide prevention and encouraging people to have the conversations that matter.
Big thanks to the CTO Labs team getting involved throughout the month and making it such a success.