Renew the Commitment to our Goal
Renew the Commitment to Our Goal
Why do this? Get Team members ‘off their feet’ and talking early on in the workshop. The session will (hopefully) build up Team confidence in achieving their 100-Day Goal, and it will generate useful ideas on increasing the odds of success.
Welcome and Objectives of Workshop
Welcome everyone back and share the objectives and agenda of the workshop. For the warm-up exercise, use the 1-2-4 All exercise (See video below) to discuss the following questions:
- What was a pleasant surprise about working on this Team?
- What was a not-so-positive experience working with this Team?
- What made you a little uncomfortable?
Progress
To get into a positive spirit, ask each team member to share 2-3 things the team did that helped make progress towards the goal. These could be post-it notes or just sharing.
Confidence Vote
Ask each team member to do a vote of confidence on the 100-Day Goal (It is best to ask them to pick a number and reveal this at once on post-it notes, or use a Mentimeter survey)
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- 1 = “no way in hell, no chance to reach our goal”
- 5 = “100% sure we will achieve this.”
Discuss differences: Use the votes to ask probing questions and facilitate a conversation among team members:
- What makes you feel so confident?
- Why are you so pessimistic?
- What would it take to push your confidence up by 1 or 2 points?
- What will need to happen in the next two weeks to move your vote above 4? (Have someone capture these ideas on the flip chart. They will come in handy to strengthen the plan.)
Changes to the Goal
Depending on the votes and the discussion, ask whether we can proceed with the goal, whether we should nudge it up ”to keep things exciting and challenging,” or whether we need to shift it down. Then let the team know that we will revisit these ideas when we sharpen our workplan.
