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Orientation to Senior Leaders
Organising 30-Day Challenges

The purpose of this guide is to prepare you to organise a rapid (30-day) project that aims to improve the way your organisation performs when it comes to the issue of gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF). 

Your organisation has already shown its intent to improve its GBVF performance – by asking its staff to fill out the GBVF Health Check. So you already have a general picture of the organisation’s behaviours, practices, and policies. 

No matter where your organisation is on its “GBVF maturity journey,” it can continue to improve and become a role model for other organisations. The 30-day project is a simple way to organise this continuous improvement process. We refer to this project as the “GBVF maturity 30-Day GBVF Challenge.” It is modeled after the 100-Day Challenge approach, just simpler and even faster! 

This guide will give you as the “Challenge Mentor” an overview of the 100-Day Challenge approach and how it translates into 30-Day Challenges. It will guide you, step by step, to the point where you have (1) a team in your organisation working on making progress on a GBVF-related goal, and (2) a coach who will support this team on a day-to-day basis, with your overall strategic guidance and oversight. 

The process you will follow in this 30-Day Challenge can be easily replicated to continue improving your organisation’s GBVF performance. This will also prepare you and others in the organisation to begin using the 100-Day Challenge approach to tackle other issues, including business performance issues. 

In the last lesson of the guide, we will share with you how leaders in Government, non-profit organisations, and the private sector used 100-Day Challenge to tackle various performance challenges – beyond GBVF. 

The Course is organised into six “Lessons”:

Overview of the 100-Day and 30-Day Challenge approach

“Doing no harm” in GBVF work

Setting the stage for your GBVF 30-Day Challenge

Guiding and supporting the 30-Day Challenge implementation

Amplifying the initial 30-Day Challenge

Using 100-Day Challenges to turbocharge the overall performance of your organisation

Where can I get help?

Tools and people are available if you need guidance or a second opinion. Follow the links or email us to connect.

Email us

30-Day Challenge leaders – Whatsapp group – LINK

Amplifier toolkit with resources and templates – LINK

Office hours – scheduled every two weeks

End GBVF Movement Whatsapp Community – LINK

Thought starter reflection questions

Jot down thoughts on these questions – to the extent they are relevant to your experience at the session:
  • When did the mood in the event shift from “why are we here?” to “this could be interesting – I am excited to be part of this.” What triggered this shift? 
  • When did you have to go “off script” on the agenda or to change the agenda? What triggered this? What did you adjust? How did it go?
  • What was most surprising to you at the event?
  • What new insights did you gain about the issue at hand, and about the way leaders in the system interacted with each other?
  • Where did the conversation get stuck? What got it unstuck?
  • How would you characterise the level of trust among participants in the meeting? To what extent did this shift as the meeting progressed? To what do you attribute this shift, if indeed it happened?

Thought starter...

Reflection Questions 

Jot down thoughts on these questions – to the extent they are relevant to your experience at the session:

  • When did the mood in the event shift from “why are we here?” to “this could be interesting – I am excited to be part of this.” What triggered this shift? 
  • When did you have to go “off script” on the agenda or to change the agenda? What triggered this? What did you adjust? How did it go?
  • What was most surprising to you at the event?
  • What new insights did you gain about the issue at hand, and about the way leaders in the system interacted with each other?
  • Where did the conversation get stuck? What got it unstuck?
These are 100-Day Challenge Mentors. 

They did some work before you received the Challenge Note. This included:

  • Writing the Challenge Note, and making sure that the leaders of all the organisations represented on the team are comfortable with it – and committed to supporting the work of the team
  • Helping the leaders of these organisation recruit you and your colleagues to the team
  • Gathering some baseline data and other information that will help you and your teammates set your 100-Day goal and develop your plan.
  • Making sure all the preparations are made for a successful Lift-Off workshop, when you and your teammates will meet and get your 100-Day Challenge started. This includes venue, facilitation support, food, swags, comms, travel arrangements and whatever else is needed.

 

Mentors will participate in all or part of the Lift-Off Workshop, mostly at the start to provide context and answer questions, and at the end to give you and your teammates feedback about the goal and plan you develop.

During the 100 days following the Lift-Off Workshop, here’s what the Mentors will do:  

  • They will check in every two weeks with the team leaders to see how the team is doing and what support they and the team need.
  • They will keep other organisational leaders informed and engaged during the 100 days, and pull them in to help as needed.
  • They will participate in the last part of the Refuelling Workshop, halfway through the 100 days, to see what additional support the team needs, and to begin to plan with the team for sustainability and scale-up.
  • They will work with the team at the Sustainability Workshop to finalise recommendations on sustaining the results and building on the work of the team.