Week minus 4 – I am the 100-Day Coach, How Can I Help?
Week Minus 4
I am the 100-Day Coach, How Can I Help?
The Challenge Strategist is getting ready to engage with leadership stakeholders to recruit a 100-Day Team and to get them to the Starting Gate. She is holding the baton for now. Your mission during the next few weeks is to support her in whichever way you can.
Tasks This Week
Join Challenge Strategist in conversation with leaders
Your main task this week is to prepare to join the Challenge Strategist in her conversations with leadership stakeholders. The purpose of these conversations is to
- decide on a specific focus area for the 100-Day Challenge and
- based on this, select a 100-Day Team.
These conversations may begin this week, but more likely, they will happen next week, possibly in one large work session involving all of the stakeholders or in several smaller gatherings.
You can offer to be a thought partner to the Challenge Strategist to help her schedule and prepare for these meetings.
Please go over the following Learning Deep Dives to get prepared to support them Challenge Strategist in these conversations:
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.
Finally, a quick note about the title of this Guidance Note: “I am the Coach, How Can I Help?” These four bolded words are the mantra of a 100-Day Challenge Coach. Get used to them. Say them often. Say them with genuine interest, curiosity and passion.
