Debrief with our Challenge Strategist
Debrief with Our Challenge Strategist
Why do this? Get commitment from the Challenge Strategist on needed support, and plant the seeds for amplifying and sustaining the 100-Day Challenge impact. The close-out part is to ensure that the Team leaves the event on a positive note and develops the habit of appreciating each other
Asks from the Challenge Strategist
Ask the Team to prepare bullet points on specific support from the Challenge Strategist that the Team will need in the next 50 days.
Sustainability
Ask the team to imagine that on day 100, they have been wildly successful in achieving their goal, but that 3 months after that, performance and results returned to where they were before the 100 days. Brainstorm, using post-it notes, why performance dropped, group similar post-its into “sustainability risk” buckets, and name each.
Actions Against Risks
Ask for volunteers to focus on each sustainability risk bucket. Send them into breakout groups to discuss and come back with actionable steps or actionable recommendations for the Challenge Strategist as these relate to two questions:
- What can the team or others do in the next few weeks to minimise this risk?
- What changes need to be implemented to avoid this sustainability failure: policy changes? Process changes? Role changes? Etc.
Debrief Presentation and Conversation with Leaders
Debrief and prepare a short presentation to the Challenge Strategist and other leadership stakeholders, including the support needed and ideas from the “sharpening the plan” discussion. This can be done in the form of:
Looking Back
Share the revised goal, highlights from the revised plan and new ideas
Looking at the Present
Thank the leaders and Challenge Strategist for the support they provided so far, and ask for support the Team needs now.
Looking Forward
Share recommendations on risk mitigation and changes related to sustaining the gains.
Close-out
Workshop feedback: Ask the team to complete the short workshop feedback survey to help you keep improving.
Appreciations: Introduce the activity by emphasizing the importance of appreciating each other in this work. Here’s one fun way to express appreciations. We refer to it as the Paper Plate Awards:
- Pass out 2-3 paper plates to each person, and ask them to write their name and give them back to you
- Then, hand out three plates to each person (not giving them back their own).
- Ask team members to write an “award” to the individuals whose names are on the plates they received. The award will be “in recognition of” something they have done over the past two weeks that went over and above the call of duty.
- Go around the group and have people present the awards to each other.
Closing comments – go around the room and ask each team member to respond to a question with one word. Questions you could use: “Share one word that best describes how you feel about your experience so far” OR “how you feel about the next 50 days?” Ask the Mentor or leaders to give the last final word.
Photo – Take a group photo and photos of the flip charts in case these get lost.
