Most successful slimming experts celebrated at Derbyshire HQ

Slimming World, the UK and Ireland’s largest weight management organisation, welcomed its most successful Team Developers to a ‘Thank You’ day at its head office in Alfreton, to mark their achievements and reward them for their exceptional work. Slimming World Team Developers run their own local weight loss groups as Consultants, and manage fellow Slimming World Consultants in their local area too as part of the company’s drive to deliver exceptional service to all of its 900,000 members.

As part of the day guests were invited to discuss best practice and share their tips on delivering a first-class weight management service to members. They also shared ideas for building and managing successful teams of Consultants in their local area.

The Team Developers, who have all lost weight as Slimming World members themselves, were invited to discuss best practice and share tips on delivering a first-class weight management service to ensure fantastic weight losses. They also shared their expertise and ideas for building and managing successful local teams in a workshop with Slimming World’s Director of Field Operations, Lisa Salmon. Lunch was a healthy Food Optimising banquet in a pop-up marquee.

Among the experts was Team Developer, Amanda Severn who runs Slimming World groups in Mansfield Woodhouse, and manages nine fellow Consultants. She says: “It was an honour to be invited to the event at Slimming World’s head office, and attending as a Team Developer representing my amazing team of nine Consultants felt extra-special. To have had the opportunity to meet and share ideas with other top-performing weight loss experts and managers was an experience I won’t forget. I learnt so much from the day and there’s no doubt the insight will enable me to further improve the support I give to Consultants in my area and to the members of my Slimming World group here in the area too. I’ll certainly be passing on the recipe for sweet chilli chicken too, which was delicious – as the food always is at Slimming World head office!

“I love my job and I feel so passionate about helping people to change their lives by losing weight and learning new habits to be able to keep it off for life. We receive first class training at the Slimming World Academy in Alfreton – and it’s a bonus that it’s just down the road from me! I’m so proud that such a large organisation is right here in Derbyshire!

“Having the chance to get together with the other top Consultants from across the country to share ideas and experiences is yet another example of the superb support that we get as self-employed Slimming World franchisees to be able to support members to achieve their weight loss dreams. There’s honestly no better company to be part of,” adds Amanda.

Slimming World was founded in 1969 by Margaret Miles-Bramwell, OBE FRSA, after she became frustrated at the restrictive diets and lack of support available for people who wanted to lose weight. Now, 47 years later, the organisation is still based on the same foundations. Slimming World members follow the club’s Food Optimising eating plan, which encourages slimmers to make small, easy changes to the way they shop, cook and eat so they make healthier choices and lose weight without ever going hungry or feeling deprived. Slimmers also attend a weekly group to weigh in and receive support in a warm, friendly environment where they share recipes, celebrate success and swap ideas for coping with challenges.

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