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American Cancer Society Active For Life SM Executive Director Training

American Cancer Society Active For Life SM Executive Director Training

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American Cancer Society

Active For LifeSM

Executive Director Training

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What is Active For Life?• Flexible, 10-week team-based worksite physical activity

program• Team-based approach, with ability to set individual goals • Receive a point for each minute of physical activity –

counts toward individual and team goals• Participants, Team Captains, and Directors provide

encouragement to succeed• Based on the Stages of Change Theory and the American

Cancer Society (ACS) Guidelines for Physical Activity

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AFL Structure with Exec DirectorExecutive Director

Program Director Program Director

Team Captain

Team Captain

Team Captain

Team Captain

Participant

Participant

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Participant

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Participant

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Participant

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Executive Director Role• Highest role in the Active for Life (AFL)

program• Suggested for companies running multiple AFL

campaigns with multiple Program Directors (PD) (i.e., an organization composed of a corporate office and two satellite offices, the organization could establish an ED to oversee the AFL company wide campaign and PDs to implement the campaign at each satellite office)

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Executive Director Role Receive the email invitation to serve as the

Executive Director

Click on the Link or copy the link in its entirety and paste it in your browser, press return/enter

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Complete the Invitation Process Click “Accept

Invitation”

If you DO NOT have an ACS Account, choose “REGISTER”

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Establish Campaign Complete each field of the form and save

(explanation of each field is on the following two slides)

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Campaign Management Fields Name the campaign Set the campaign start date -(date of the 10 week

campaign) The Campaign Finish date will populate 10 weeks from the Campaign Start date

Post-Campaign Survey Deadline -determines how long you want to allow participants to complete the post-program survey

Program Director- select a user to be a Program Director or click Invite PD to invite a Program Director

Enhanced Campaign-If “yes” participants will be able to add a food tracker, weight tracker and/or BMI calculator to their personal dashboard. These tools are optional, confidential, not a part of the AFL reporting system and are simply provided as additional resources for individuals to use during their AFL campaign.

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Campaign Management Fields Cont. Enable News- use 10 weekly newsletters as default news

to display as weekly campaign news for participants to see

Enable Motivational Emails- If “Yes” users will receive automatic email messages supporting them to meet their goal or congratulate them for exceeding their goal. Individual users can choose to stop receiving these automatic emails by updating their profile.

Campaign Supports Bonus Points- Bonus points are determined by the company and are an optional feature to the AFL program. Bonus points are reported in AFL campaign reports. You or the Program Directors and/or Team Captains will need to communicate to participants what counts as Bonus Points in your campaign(s).

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Campaign Tools Executive Director Abilities

Step by step instructions are available in the Help section in the AFL site

Some examples of abilities are below:Invite Program Directors, Team Captains, and ParticipantsEmail ParticipantsMove participantsEdit User’s Physical Activity GoalChange Team Captains and make Co-CaptainsManage teams and campaignsAdd or Manage Offline UsersManage Campaign NewsSelect additional Survey Questions

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Campaign TipsExecutive Director Resources

Campaign Tips contains tips and resources needed to learn about AFL and implement successful campaigns

Some tips include:•AFL ED Training Manual•AFL Suggested Campaign Timeline•Access to our Print On Demand Site•AFL Best Practices•Access to ACS Podcasts series

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Executive Director ReportsExecutive Director reports allow you to see company wide, campaign,

team and participant levels

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My DashboardAn ED must either be a Team Captain or a Participant on a team to have a dashboard. The dashboard is where the company message, campaign news, activity tracker and optional nutrition and weight

tools will display.

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Help Features

The Help Button is role specific and has step by step instructions on how to do common ED tasks. Each role in AFL has access to the Help

button.

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Future Sign Ins Each time you are ready to sign in to Active

For Life, go to www.activeforlife.org Click “Sign In” to access Active For Life Do not attempt to sign in with your

invitation link

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Executive Director Checklist Invite Program Director(s) Communicate the details about the Active For

Life campaign and let people to know to look out for email invitations and/or direct people to the Join a Team button if applicable

Review optional survey questions and select if any are appropriate for your campaign

Prepare your optional company wide/campaign news

Join a Team!

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Need More Help?Contact your ACS

Relationship Manager or [email protected]