Team Challenges

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With Well U you can participate as an individual or create a team with your department. You can even challenge other departments to see who can circle the island the fastest.

Creating a team

If you would like to create a team (group) email us at support@stepsout.com with a subject line “Create a new team”.

Include in your email:

• a fun team name ensuring that it includes either the name, or the four-letter code (if applicable) of your faculty, department, office, centre or group,
• the name of the faculty, department, office, centre or group, and
• the contact information (name, phone and email) for the Team Lead. Team Leads must be Registered Users.

For more information, please refer to Team Leads below.

Things to consider

When creating your teams consider the following:

• Pick the right number of people for your team to make it fun. Remember your team will progress around Vancouver Island based on the average steps logged. Therefore, team work and partnership is important.
• If you are part of a large faculty, department, office, centre or group, you may want to consider creating a number of teams. This allows for inter-office challenges.
• If possible, teams should not be smaller than 4 people.
• The progress of your team will be visible to all Registered Users (Group Maps and Group Activity)

Team Leads are important for the success of Well U.  The purpose of establishing Well U Team Leads is to assist each faculty, department, office, centre or group in demonstrating the University’s commitment to environments for work and study that are safe, supportive, inclusive and healthy … (UVic Strategic Plan, Mission)

Role of the Team Leads

• Engage staff and faculty within a faculty, department, office, centre or group to participate in:
  • Launch Event – TBA
  • On-going Events and Guided Walks – September to April
  • Virtual walk around Vancouver Island (Activity Tracker)
• Distribute information within the faculty, department, office, centre or group
• Work to enhance the sense of campus community among UVic students, staff and faculty (UVic Strategic Plan – Objective 16)
• Enhancing the capacity of our athletics and recreation programs to support … the physical well-being of members of the university … (Objective 15)
• Attend an orientation session (1 hour) and update meetings (1 hour every 4 weeks)
• Manage the list of team members using the Activity Tracker
• Provide answers to routine questions regarding Well U and the Activity Tracker 
• Provide feedback to Well U

Establishing a Team Lead

If you are a dean, chair, director, manager, or supervisor of a faculty, department, office, or centre and would like to designate a Team Lead refer to the Creating a Team section above.

If you are interested in becoming the Team Lead for your faculty, department, office, or centre please note your interest to your dean, chair, director, manager or supervisor as there may be a number of individuals who are interested.

If you are interested in becoming a Team Lead for a student group (e.g. SOGS, Native Students Union, UVic Juggling Club) please email support@stepsout.com indicating the group that you would like to represent.

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Resources for Team Leads

Team Lead's Orientation to the Activity Tracker

• This presentation has been developed to orient Team Leads to the Well U Activity Tracker. As a Team Lead, it is likely that team members will be asking you questions and this presentation has been developed to assist you in answering some of those questions.