Week 6: Shaping the Way Forward with the Project Sponsor and other Leaders
Week 6
Shaping the Way Forward
You’re almost done. Just a few loose ends to tie up…
The tasks over the next two weeks include closing out the 30-Day Project and supporting leaders in turning their decisions into action.
Your Mission the Next Two Week
Project Close-out Report & Story
The Close-out Report is your opportunity to memorialise the work the team has done in the project. You can incorporate into it the feedback from the Project Sponsor and Team leader as well as your own impressions and perspectives on the Scale-Up workshop and the project as a whole. You can also include videos or photos from the workshop and the project. For easy access, we included a link to the Report template.
You can also share the report with your manager.
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The more informal “report” will be the unique story you are creating about the experience of the 30-Day Project team. This will be published as an article on our website and, if appropriate, on social media, and you can use it in our organisation’s internal communication channels, such as a newsletter. Please include it with the report, as part of the assignment for these two weeks.
In case it is helpful, here’s a link to the Deep Dive: Telling the team’s 30-Day Project Story,
Supporting the Project Sponsor on the Way Forward
Set up a time to talk with the Project Sponsor to discuss the way forward.
- Review the sustainability and scaling recommendations. Based on these, decide on the best way to move forward. More details on these in last week’s Deep Dive on Supporting the leaders to Amplify.
- Once a path is chosen, make sure a Sponsor and Team Coach are assigned to each 30-Day Project that will be launched. The current team leader is a natural choice for becoming a coach.
- Organise an orientation session for the Project Sponsor and Team Coaches so you can share your experience and hand off the baton. As part of this, introduce them to the online learning platform, and share with them the advice to future 30-Day Projects Teams prepared by your team (and possibly other teams).
- Complete the second assignment – The Way Forward – in the next two weeks to wrap up this work.
Supporting the leaders to Amplify
What’s next for you?
Lastly, we want to provide some closure to your experience as a 30-Day Project Coach and to invite you to continue your learning journey.
The experience of supporting 30-Day and 100-Day Challenges often reveals aspects of ourselves, and at times inspires shifts in our attitudes and behaviours. Please block out an uninterrupted 30 min to consider these questions:
- As you reflect on your demeanour and behaviour in the past 30 days, are there things that you recall that were new or surprising?
- Where did you feel stretched and uncomfortable?
- How did you grow and develop as you went through these moments?
- What new skills did you develop?
The feedback sheet below contains 8 questions to help you reflect and provide us with valuable feedback on your experience and on the programme.
Reflections and Feedback
We would like to invite you to continue upskilling as a coach, especially if you see an opportunity to use 30-Day Projects and 100-Day Challenges to improve your own organisation. The Deep Dive below provides some guidance on this.
To help you with this, here is a Deep Dive: Opportunities for Mastering 100-Day Challenge
