Weight Watchers at Work Progam
Getting Started as an Organizer
- Recruit members. One of the most important actions to take is to recruit members for your meetings. It takes 15 people to get a meeting started, so it’s a good idea to spread the word far and wide and identify as many potential members as you can.
One of the easiest ways to recruit members is to send an email. You can use the email templates provided on this site, or you can create your own email. Give people at least 2-3 weeks notice about an upcoming meeting and be sure to remind them a few times before the meeting starts.
Note: While you can use county email to send a notice about your informational meeting, you must create and send the email on your own time, such as your lunch or break.
Another way to promote your meeting series is through posters. You can use the poster templates provided on this site, or you can create your own.
Note if you create your own poster, the Health Matters team requests that you use the “blank” poster template.
- Request a Weight Watchers Leader. Each meeting series needs a Leader from Weight Watchers. Not only does a Leader facilitate the weekly meeting series, they also collect the money from participants so you do not have to.
To request a Leader for your meeting series, contact Evie Chestnut at Weight Watchers of North America at 1-800-326-8450 ext. 2043.
- Schedule an informational meeting. Now you are ready to schedule your informational meeting. Reserve a conference room at a convenient time for potential participants. Remember, employees must attend meetings on their “own” time, such as lunch or before or after work. Be sure that your Leader can attend the informational meeting.
- Reserve a conference room for the meeting series. You can reserve a conference room after your informational meeting, or if you are sure you have 15 participants you can reserve it sooner.
Be sure to reserve the conference room for 13 weeks and for 90 minutes. While meetings are usually an hour or less, the extra 30 minutes allows the meeting Leader to set up before the meeting and put materials away when the meeting is over.
- Promote the meeting series. Once at least 15 people have committed to attend your meetings, you are ready to begin. Remind participants about the first meeting and then ask them if they need to be reminded about additional meetings.
- Start your meetings! Now that you’ve got your participants, the meeting room, dates, and time, you’re ready to meet.