Week 5 – Keeping the team focused
Week 5
Keeping the Team Focused
A 100-Day Challenge is not easy, and you will encounter bumps on the team’s journey, and there is not much time to mitigate or fix them.
Your Task This Week
This week, your task is to pay special attention to the Team’s energy, motivation and focus on their 100-Day Goal. You can then coach the Team Leader on how to maintain the focus and energy of the team. Of course, it would be good to keep an eye on this throughout the 100 days, but make it your special focus for this week.
There is a certain arc to the energy level of the 100-Day Team. Team members leave the Start-up Workshop with a lot of enthusiasm and energy. A few weeks into the 100 days, obstacles begin to emerge, and some Team members begin to feel discouraged.
Take a pulse check of the Team
It is best to do this by calling each Team member and asking them how they are doing, how they are feeling about being part of the Team, and what suggestions they have to make the experience more fun and engaging for them and more impactful for others.
Let the Team Leader know that you will be doing this. And interview her first. Things will come up during these calls, and you will want to debrief with the Team Leader after the calls and coach her on how to handle issues that you heard about on the calls.
For guidance on this, please go over the Learning Deep Dive: Bumps on the Track.
