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Guidance for Coaches Supporting 30-Day Challenges

The purpose of this guide is to prepare you to support a rapid (30-day) project team that aims to improve the way your organisation performs when it comes to the issue of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF). 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! 

The online guide is organised into weekly lessons designed to help you, on a just-in-time basis, supporting the team working on the 30-Day Challenge. 

As of the second week, the aim is that you dedicate some time on Monday to Wednesday to supporting the team (e.g., facilitating workshops).

 

Thursday and Friday, you allocate a bit of time to learning something that will help you support the team in the coming week. So the Coach Guidance in the Week 2 Lesson, for example, relate to the work you will do in Week 3 to support the team.  

 

Every Friday there will be an Office Hour Zoom call. One of the Experienced 100-Day Challenge coaches will host the call. Please feel free to dial in, especially if you have questions about the week’s guides, to be better prepared to support the team in the coming week.

The first week is an all-learning week, as there is not yet a 30-Day Team to support.

The last week is all about reflecting on the experience and mapping out your own developmental journey,
beyond the 30-Day Challenge.

By the end of this program, you will have gained and practised new skills that will be valuable for you and your organisation. It will be an intense eight weeks, so buckle up!

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.