
Guidance on Coaching 100-Day Challenge Teams
The purpose of this Learning Guide to prepare you to coach a rapid (100-day) project team 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, government and non-profit organisations have used it to make breakthrough improvements on a multitude of issues and in dozens of countries around the world. So, you will join a community of global coaches who have helped leaders achieve remarkable results by empowering and enabling others in their organisations and communities.
Below are some of these leaders and Coaches describing the results they were able to inspire through 100-Day Challenges.
100-Day Challenges Experiences
Chief Prosecutor for the Polokwane Cluster, Octavia, shares some insight into the impact of the End GBVF 100-Day Challenges in the courts and how the experience has influenced the way of working to improve the reporting and management of GBVF cases in courts.
The Managing Director of Newmont Australia (Mining Sector), Mia, uses 100-Day Challenges, which was called Rapid Results in the past, to enable the operations to utilise and harness the front-line teams’ capacities to implement and innovate.
Our own 100-Day Challenge Guru – Nadim (the younger version) – talking about doing 100-Day Challenges in different countries. (100-Day Challenge used to be called Rapid Results Initiatives)
The 100-Day Challenge as a Relay Race
The 100-Day Challenge can be viewed as a relay race, with the baton getting passed back and forth between the different athletes. Unlike real relay races, when athletes pass on the baton, they do not get out of the race. They continue running alongside the athlete with the baton, supporting and cheering them along.

In this graphic, you, the Team Coach, are in red. As you can see, you be handed the relay baton two weeks before before Day 0 (Start-Up Workshop). Before that, you will be supporting the Challenge Strategist (in blue) in their efforts to get the 100-Day Team recruited and to get them to the starting gate, ready for the race! You will hand over the baton to theTeam Leader (in green) after the Start-Up Workshop. And you will continue standing and running on the side of the track, guiding and coaching the Team Leader and the Team.
Guidance on Supporting 100-Day Teams

As a Team Coach, you will support the Challenge Strategist early on, at the critical steps preparing for the race. Your main role after that will be to guide and support the team during their 100-Day race. Your role is crucial for the success of the 100-Day Challenge.

In order to help you understand this role and play it effectively, the World of Impact team will send you WhatsApp messages every week for the next 20 weeks or so.
100-Day Challenge Team Coach Whatsapp group – LINK

Each note will include specific tasks that you will need to follow up on, complete, or pay special attention to that week. We refer to these messages as Guidance Notes. They will include guidance on performing these tasks.

Most Guidance Notes will include links to more substantive information to prepare you to perform these tasks. We refer to these substantive information packets as Learning Deep Dives. We highly encourage you to go over these.

At the end of each Guidance Note, there will be an Assignment that you are expected to complete. It generally takes 5-15 minutes. It either refers back to the Learning Deep Dives of the week, or it includes information that was generated by you or others during the week.

The World of Impact team will host a weekly one-hour “Ask a Guru” Zoom call. Please join these if you have questions after reviewing the Guidance Note and Learning Deep Dives of the week.

Your first Guidance Note includes Learning Deep Dives on the topic of the 100-Day Challenge, to provide a strategic context and some useful background, before diving into the 100-Day Challenge process.

Please note that in line with the figures in the race diagram, throughout the programme, we will use the female pronouns for the Challenge Strategist and Team Leader and the male pronouns for the Team Coach.
Weekly Assignment
Click to complete the Assignment
100-Day Challenge Coach Certification Track

North-West University Certification
The Management Department at North-West University has adopted this program as one of its “short 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 short course certificate can be used for credit towards a further qualification in management from the University.
Enrolling in the certification program requires a registration fee of R250. There no fee required for the learning programme. This is covered for all public service employees and staff of public benefit organisations by the Ford Foundation as part of the Ending GBVF 100-Day Challenge Learning Programme.
Please reach out to us at learning@theworldofimpact.org if you’d like to enroll in the 100-Day Challenge Strategist Certification Programme.