Week Minus 2 – Decide on a Focus area & Team for the 30-Day Project
Week Minus 2
Decide on a Focus Area & Team for the 30-Day Project
This week, you will engage leaders in your organisation to help them decide on a focus area for the 30-Day Project, and to select a 30-Day Project Team.
Your Mission This Week
Meet with organisational leaders
Meet with organisational leaders, present the results of the Health Check survey, help them decide in a focus area, select a team, and designate a project sponsor. The Learning Deep Dives from previous weeks will help you facilitate these conversations.
If it’s helpful, you can download the slides below, customise them, and use these in the work session with the leaders. Also, please feel free to ask someone from the World of Impact to be “on call” during your meeting with other leaders to answer questions they may have.
Set a date for the Lift-Off workshop of the 30-Day Project. To keep the 30-Day Project synchronised with the Learning Programme, we suggest doing scheduling this the week after next. It’ll be ideal to block out at least a half day for this – or a full day if possible.
Draft a 30-Day Project Charter
Draft a 30-Day Project Charter, finalise it with the Project Sponsor, and ensure that the Sponsor sends it to Team members. This will provide context to the Team, clarify role, and outline expectations. You can download a template Charter by clicking on the button below.
Your main focus next week will be to get ready for the Start-up Workshop (the week after next). Here are the Learning Deep Dives that will help you get a head start on this.
Overview of Start-up Workshop: Objectives and overall flow of the Workshop. The other Learning Deep Dives provide a step-by-step guide on facilitating each agenda item.
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?
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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.
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