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For CAF Leadership and Units

Leaders play a critical role in setting expectations and influencing behaviour across all ranks. When leadership participate visibly, it signal that active transportation is a priority linked to readiness and performance.

What Leadership Can Do

  • Set the Tone
    • Talk about the campaign during briefings so your team knows it matters.
    • Show up and participate in activities so it feels real - not just messaging.
    • Be visible when you walk or bike so others can feel encouraged to do the same.
  • Enable Your Team
    • Give people flexibility so they can walk or bike when possible.
    • Support Fuel-Free Fridays to create a consistant participation rhythm.


    How to Run a Fuel-Free Friday

    • Tell your team ahead of time that Fridayis a "low or no vehicle day".
    • Encourage them to walk, bike or combine trips.
    • Ask them to track and submit their km for that day.
  • Build It Into the Culture
    Leaders should reinforce that movement during the workday is acceptable and encouraged.
     

    Run Walk & Talk Meetings

    • Identify meetings that do not require screens or confidential meaterial.
    • Limit group size to 2-5 people for practical movement.
    • Choose a safe, pre-identified walking route.
    • Assign one person to capture key notes afterward.
  • High Impact Strategies
    • Leaders should initiate command-level challenges between units to create visible competition.
    • Leaders should recognize high-performing units publicly to reinforcepositive behaviour.
    • Leaders should reference campaign progress during briefings to maintain visibility and accountability.
  • What Success Look Like
    • You see more people moving across the base.
    • Your unit is participating consistently.
    • Active transportation becomes part of the routine.

Units are responsible for driving participation and sustaining momentum through structured engagement and team based competition. When units get involved, participation increases and so does team pride.

What Units Can Do

  • How to Earn Unit Points
    Your unit earns points when:
    • Log km form walking or cycling.
    • Show up to events.
    • Get families involved.
    • Submit consistently each week.
  • Assign a Unit Rep
    • Choose someone to collect km and submit weekly totals, perhaps the unit Health Promotion Rep.
    • Keep it simple - a spreadsheet works fine. 
  • Integrate into Daily Work

    Replace Short Vehicle Trips:

    • Identify trips under 1km.
    • Encourage walking or biking instead
    • Log distance after completion.
  • Activate the Team

    Run a Unit Challenge:

    • Set a weekly km goal for the unit.
    • Divide teams (platoon vs platoon).
    • Track progress publically (whiteboard or shared spreadsheet).
    • Celebrate the team winning, weekly.
    Keep it fun and low pressure.
  • How to Track KMs
    1. Members track daily km.
    2. They submit their totals to the unit rep.
    3. Rep adds everything into one weekly total.
    4. Submitt every Friday.

    Consistency matters more than perfection.