Week minus 3: Prepare your presentation to organisational leaders
Week Minus 3
Prepare your Presentation to Organisational Leaders
This week you will to get ready to engage with leaders in your organisation – so you begin to shape the 30-Day Project with them.
Your Mission This Week
Prepare a Compelling Presentation to Leaders
Go through the results of the Health Check surveys in your organisation. Identify 3-5 areas where the organisation is doing well, and 3-5 areas that are cause for concern. Prepare a presentation for leaders.
Review the Learning Deep Dive on the Health Check for guidance on understanding the Health Check and developing your presentation. If in doubt, email the World of Impact team: 30DayProject@theworldofimpact.org.
Also… Make sure that you have read and understood all the Learning Deep Dives from last week. These will come in handy as you begin to engage with leaders.
Preparing for Next Week (Week minus 2)
Next week you will be discussing the Health Check results with leaders of your organisation, and you will be helping them decide on a focus area for the 30-Day project and select a project team.
To help you prepare for this, please review these Learning Deep Dives:
Decide on a Focus Area: Framework for guiding the discussion with leaders about the specific focus of the 30-Day Project.
Select a 30-Day Team:Guidance to leaders on selecting team members who are aligned with the specific focus area they chose.
Facilitation 101:This will help you sharpen the facilitation skills you will need to guide the conversations with the leaders next week.
Please download the presentation template below that you can use to brief organisational leaders about the Health Check survey results and the 30-Day Project, and to guide them through the decisions they need to make to get the 30-Day Project underway. You will need to customise this based on your analysis of the Health Survey results.
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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