Week 15 – Getting Ready for the Marathon
Week 15
Getting Ready for the Marathon
You are now holding the baton. It is up to you to decide where to go next to build on the momentum of this 100-Day Challenge, and to shape the next tracks of the marathon.
Your Tasks This Week and in the Coming 2-3 Weeks
Bring Closure to Team Members
This might include the following:
- Organising a celebratory lunch or dinner with the team
- Preparing a thank you note that would go to Team members, with a copy to their managers and to other leadership stakeholders. You can use some of the things that emerged at the Scale-Up Workshop in this. The Team Coach can help you draft this.
- Where appropriate, you can also send private messages to managers of specific Team members who shined during the 100 days.
Clarifying the Way Forward
During the Scale-Up Workshop, several options were mapped out and discussed. It is time now to make decisions on these, and to turn these decisions into actionable next steps.
These decisions are similar to the ones you and other leadership stakeholders made in the lead up to the Start-Up Workshop: What should be the focus of the next 100-Day Challenge? Who should be on the 100-Day Team? Who should be the Team Coach?
Except now you have a broader strategic framework for these decisions. And you can choose to do multiple 100-Day Challenges at once, or to sequence these over the next 12 months.
This is an opportunity to recruit others Challenge Strategists (one for each new focus area of a 100-Day Challenge), and also new Team Coaches. You may want to consider asking the Team Leader or one of the 100-Day Team members to step into a Team Coach role.
Just like the lead up to the Start-Up Workshop, you can make these decisions through one-on-one or small group consultations with Leadership Stakeholders, or you can convene the leadership stakeholders in one work session to decide on the way forward.
To prepare for navigating the various paths in your discussions with the leadership stakeholders, please review the latter part of the Learning Deep Dive you first saw in week 14: Mapping the Way Forward Beyond the 100 Days
Bonus Deep Dive on using the 100-Day Challenge approach for other performance focus areas: Turbocharge Organisational Performance with 100-Day Challenges
