Week Minus 4 – Preparing for Engaging Leadership Stakeholders
Week Minus 4
Preparing for Engaging Leadership Stakeholders
This week, the tasks will be simple and easy. But there is quite a bit of background materials to go over in the Learning Deep Dives, so please block out some time for this.
100-Day Challenges are projects that last 100 days, from start to finish. They are unique in many ways that will become clearer in the coming days and weeks. However, like all projects, each 100-Day Challenge has a team, a goal, and a plan. One unique aspect of 100-Day Challenges is that goals and plans are developed by 100-Day Teams, rather than being handed down to them by their leaders or supervisors. So in 100-Day Challenges, choosing a team comes before deciding on a goal. But in order to choose the right 100-Day Challenge team, a decision needs to be made on the general focus of the Challenge.
Three Tasks This Week
This week, your primary task is to prepare yourself for engaging with other leadership stakeholders so, together, you can decide on a specific focus area for the 100-Day Challenge and, based on this, select a 100-Day Team. Please go over the following Learning Deep Dives to get prepared for these engagements:
Prepare to Engage
Overview of 100-Day Challenges. This will help you answer questions about the 100-Day Challenge approach. These will inevitably come up when you are talking with leadership stakeholders about the 100-Day Challenge Focus Area and Team.
Strategic Context: GBVF in South Africa. This will provide important background on GBVF in South Africa, and it includes an overview of the National Strategic Plan to end GBVF (NSP) that will be the basis for developing the menu of Focus areas for Ending GBVF 100-Day Challenges.
Developing your Short List of Focus Areas for 100-Day Challenges. This will help you understand the unique aspects of 100-Day Challenge Focus areas and how these relate to the NSP.
Set-up Engagements
Set Up Leadership Engagements. Invite other leadership stakeholders for a meeting next week to brief them about the 100-Day Challenge and engage them in deciding on the Focus of this next 100-Day Challenge and 100-Day Team membership. If you prefer, you can also have one-on-one conversations with the leadership stakeholders or meet them in small groups. For a list of suggested leaders to engage with, click the button on the right.
Select a Team Coach
Recruit a Team Coach. The coach will help you with these leadership engagements and with the follow-up work. He will become a 100-Day Challenge process expert, so the actual focus area of the 100-Day Challenge will be less important than the attributes and skills he brings to the role. Please go over the Learning Deep Dive on Selecting Team Coach.
