The Refresh Workshop is now complete, and your team is revitalised for the final 50-day sprint.
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Your Tasks This Week
This week is about converting that workshop momentum into a concrete “Battle Rhythm” and ensuring the Challenge Strategist is equipped to champion the team’s sustainability plans with senior leadership. To put you in the right mindset, revisit the Learning Deep Dive from Week 1: What does Success look like?
The Team Leader Debrief
Within a few days of the workshop, meet with the Team Leader to harvest the energy and clarity generated.
The Follow-up Note: Ask the Team Leader to draft a summary for the Team, highlighting key decisions and the revised 100-Day Plan. Provide feedback on their draft to ensure it is clear and encouraging, and distribute it within 72 hours.
Facilitation Feedback: Offer specific, constructive feedback on the sessions the Team Leader facilitated during the workshop. Remember to also solicit their feedback on your coaching support.
Planning the Second Half: Discuss exactly what support the Team Leader needs from you for the remaining weeks, including how often you should attend weekly team meetings.
Strategic Alignment with the Strategist
Jointly with the Team Leader, huddle with the Challenge Strategist to solidify the “Sustainability Path”.
The Impressions: Gather their takeaways from the workshop—did they see the shift in the team’s confidence?
Sustainability Foundations: Discuss the actionable ideas for “sustaining the gains” that emerged during the workshop, focusing on what can be launched immediately.
Leadership Engagement: Identify which other senior leaders need to be engaged now to prepare for life after Day 100.
The Briefing Note: Offer to help the Strategist draft a briefing note for the broader leadership group. This note should communicate the team’s progress and invite leaders to participate in final sustainability planning.
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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