Module 3 Overview
The Start-Up Workshop is over. Now, the real work begins for the team. Your mission over the next four weeks is to check in with the Team Leader and Coach and be available when they need your support.
Podcast
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The Big Picture
With the 100-day clock ticking, maintaining momentum is crucial. Teams often face early hurdles such as fragmented data, systemic barriers, and the temptation to drift back into “business as usual.” This phase is all about establishing a disciplined weekly routine, finding evidence-based ways to track progress, and keeping the team laser-focused on their SMURF goal. The Coach, you will shift from directing to guiding, helping the team build their own accountability and leveraging you, Challenge Strategist, when they get stuck.
The Roadmap
Week 2: The First Team Meeting
The “honeymoon phase” ends here. This week is about setting the standard for accountability.
Coach Support: The team leaders need to ensure that every Team member reports on what they did, not just what they thought about it.
Challenge Strategist support: Support the team if inter-departmental communication (e.g., Police to Social is not happening. It may mean that you have to rebrief some of the senior leaders in those departments.
Week 3: Sorting out Data Issues
In GBVF work, data is often fragmented or delayed. This week, the coach help the Team stop waiting for “perfect” reports.
Coach support: Helping the Team create “proxy indicators” or manual tracking systems that they own and control.
Challenge Strategist support: If the team gets stuck on data, engage senior leaders to assist, or help the Coach and team leader develop indicators they can track.
Week 4: Briefing session - the Challenge Strategist, Team Leader and Coach
This week, you, the Challenge Strategist, will “officially” meet with the Team Leaders and Coach to get a deeper understanding of where the team are at and where you can remove barriers.
Coach support: Help the team leader to clearly articulate the “Systemic Barriers”—the rules or policies that the Team cannot change on their own—so the Strategist can intervene.
Challenge Strategist support: Listen and advise, but do not take over. Where the team have tried but not made progress, engage the relevant leader to help remove barriers.
Week 5: Keeping the Team Focused
By Day 30, teams often start chasing “side projects.”
Coach support: Using the 100-Day Plan as a filter. If an action doesn’t move the needle on the SMURF Goal, it gets parked.
Challenge Strategist support: Invite the team to a Forum where other leaders are present to update the wide ecosystem on progress and hurdles. This is also an opportunity to make the team shine and get recognition.
Your Action Checklist
Your key action until the halfway mark is the “official” meeting with the Team Leader and Coach in Week 4.
For the rest of the time, you should be available when they need you and show interest in progress by regularly (every week or 2 weeks) giving them an informal call or whatsapp to check in.
