Week Minus 4 – Preparing for Engaging Leadership Stakeholders
Week Minus 4
Preparing for Engaging Leadership Stakeholders
Your Mission this week – you will work with the Coach to prepare for a critical engagement with leadership stakeholders.
Your goal is to guide them in making two key decisions: The Focus of the 100-Day Challenge and The Membership of the 100-Day Team. To prepare, you will create a shortlist of potential focus areas to present at the session.
Podcast
Click here to listen to a Challenge Strategist and Coach discussing the mission and tasks this week – with great tips!
Your Tasks This Week
Invite Leaders to a Design Session
Convene the local GBVF leaders next week. You need to brief them on the 100-Day Challenge and engage them in the decision-making process.
Actions:
Stakeholder Mapping: Map all existing GBVF stakeholders to ensure you involve all in the Leadership Design Session
The coach will help you schedule and coordinate logistics for a group meeting, small-group sessions, or one-on-one conversations with key stakeholders.
Resources:
For a list of suggested leaders to engage with, click the button on the right. Also, download a draft letter to invite the selected leaders.
To secure buy-in, you must understand the scope of your role and be prepared to answer questions. Use the following Learning Deep Dives to prepare for these high-level conversations:
- The 100-Day Challenge in a Glance: A primer on the methodology
- Your role as 100-Day Challenge Strategist
- The National Strategic Plan (NSP) on GBVF: Contextualising your work with South Africa’s national mandate.
- The Challenge Gallery: A showcase of past 100-Day Challenges that successfully translated the NSP into local, collective action to support survivors and reduce GBVF.
These resources are designed to equip you to engage other high-level stakeholders. Together, you will begin the essential work of co-designing your 100-Day Challenge to create a tangible impact in your community.
Remember: you are encouraged to move faster than the program’s suggested pace. Every day saved in preparation is an extra day your team can spend making an impact on survivors’ lives.
Create a Shortlist of Focus Areas
Do not go into the leadership session empty-handed. Before the meeting, collaborate with the Coach to develop a curated list of potential “focus areas” for the Challenge. This will help leadership narrow down the options to a single, high-impact focus area during the session
Action: Meet with the Coach and draft the shortlist.
Resource: Review the Deep Dive on “Developing a Shortlist of Focus Areas for 100-Day Challenge” to ensure your shortlist is strategic.
Prepare to support the Coach during the Session
The coach will facilitate the session to free you up to participate fully in the debate. You could support them by knowing how they will facilitate the session. The two Deeps Dives and slides are guidance provided to them.
Review “Choosing a Focus for the 100-Day Challenge” to help leaders move from the menu of focus areas to the one focus area for the 100-Day Challenge.
Review “Who Should be on the 100-Day Challenge Team?” to guide the selection conversation effectively.
