Designing a 100-Day Challenges
(for leaders)
The purpose of this guide is to prepare you to organise a rapid (100-day) project that aims to significantly improve a strategic issue that requires fresh thinking and collaboration across departments and/or organisations.
The approach you will learn about is called the 100-Day Challenge. Leaders in the private sector, in Government and in non-profit organisations, have used it to make breakthrough improvements on a multitude of issues and in dozens of countries all over the world. So, you will join a community of global leaders who have achieved remarkable results by empowering and enabling others in their organisations and communities.
Below are some of these leaders describing the results they were able to inspire through 100-Day Challenges.
Jakkie
Becky Kanis
Our Challenge: Tackling Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) in South Africa
You are in a leadership position in your organisation, court, municipality, or TVET. Your role is organising a 100-Day Challenge that inspires a cross-organisational team to progress significantly on an important GBVF issue.
You and the team you organise will be joining a movement of activists who are taking the initiative and actually doing something about GBVF in our country rather than waiting for instructions and guidance from outside and above.
This Learning Program is organised into several “Guidance Notes”. The first four notes provide background related to GBVF and helpful context. The last four Notes relate more generally to the 100-Day Challenge approach and specifically to the work you will do to organise and support a 100-Day Challenge team.
Here is an overview of the Guidance Noteas in this learning programme.
GBVF related Guidance Notes
1. Strategic Context: National Strategic Plan to end GBVF and the End GBVF Collective
2. Building on Success: Gallery of Ending GBVF 100-Day Challenges in South Africa over the past three years
3. Ending GBVF Dashboard: The compass we use to know the scope and scale of our impact
4. Do No Harm: Practical guidance on working with GBV survivors.
100-Day Challenge Guidance Notes
5. Winning the Relay Race: What are 100-Day Challenges? How are they organised? And what role will you play in them?
6. Getting the Team to the Starting Gate: What do you need to do in the next 2-3 weeks so the team can start its 100-day race?
7. Cheering the Team on the Track: What can you do during the 100 days to support the team?
8. Getting Ready for the Marathon: What can you do to ensure the team’s impact during the 100 days is sustained and amplified?
North-West University Certification
The management department at North-West University has adopted this program as one of its mini-courses on leadership and project management. You will be eligible to receive a certificate of participation from the University if you complete the assignments at the end of each guidance note.
The mini-course certificate can be used for credit towards a master’s degree in management from the University. A registration fee of ____ is required to enrol in the certification program. Please reach out to us at info@theworldofimpact.org if you’d like to enrol.
Where can I get help?
Tools and people are available if you need guidance or a second opinion. Follow the links or email us to connect.
