Challenge Roles

Challenge Coordinator

Choose a Challenge start date & length (5 – 12 weeks)
Register workplace challenge online at www.walkforwellnesschallenge.ca.
As Challenge Coordinator, you will not automatically be registered as a Team Captain or Participant in the Challenge – so, if you plan to take part in the Challenge you will need to ensure that you add yourself to a team.
Promote the Challenge within your workplace (posters, emails, lunch & learn introductory session, etc.).
Recruit participants to be Team Captains, and encourage Team Captains to recruit participants for their team.
Add teams to the Challenge, by “Adding a Team” to your Challenge. Team Captains will be sent an automated email that will invite them to sign-up for the Challenge and then they can add their participants.
Access Challenge guides from website and ensure Team Captains and Participants have access to the guides.
Decide on a pedometer purchasing plan.
Forward emails, tips, and materials to Team Captains.
You may need to enter daily totals for your Team Captains & Participants if they don’t have access to a computer or the internet.
Most importantly…. keep your teams motivated & informed!

Form a team
Once you receive your automated email from the Walk for Wellness Challenge site, log in & register as a TEAM CAPTAIN (will automatically register you as a participant as well) in your workplace challenge.
Add Participants to your team, by “Add a Participant to this Team”.
Participants that have access to email will receive an automated email that will invite them to sign-up for the Challenge and then they can begin entering in their daily activity and healthy eating data once the challenge has begun.
You will need to enter data for your team members that don’t have an email address or access to internet.
Access the Challenge guide from the website and ensure your team members have a copy or access to the online tracker.
Make sure each of your team members have a pedometer and access to the Challenge guides.
Forward e-mails, tips, and materials to your team members.
Most importantly…encourage your teammates to keep walking & eating healthy!

Join a team.
Once you receive your automated email from the Walk for Wellness Challenge site, log in & register as a PARTICIPANT in your workplace challenge.
Get a pedometer.
Access Participant Guide and other Challenge resources & tips from Challenge website www.walkforwellnesschallenge.ca.
Track your daily steps (pedometer) and other activity (Activity Converter).
Work towards 10,000 (or more) steps of activity each day.
Track your daily intake of vegetables and fruit.
Work towards eating your Daily 7.
Most importantly... encourage your teammates to keep walking & eating healthy!