Understanding our 100-Day Challenge
Understanding Our 100-Day Challenge
Below is a step-by-step guide for presenting this segment of the agenda. This guide matches the slides in the presentation deck that is provided in the Guidance Note of Week Minus 1. This is intended for the Team Coach. But it could be used by anyone leading this segment of the agenda.
Purpose of this Agenda Item: To set the tone that this is not a typical workshop, and to ensure that 100-Day Team members understand the “why” of this effort and what is expected from them.
Process time: 90 min
Deep Dive Video
Step 1: Welcome and Warm-Up
- Welcome everyone, including the Challenge Strategist and other leaders and share the workshop agenda.
- Warm-up exercise to create an energised environment. Use whatever works for you. One suggestion is to ask everyone to pair up with someone else to share perspectives on these two questions, and then call on some participants to share highlights in plenary.
- What do I hope will happen today?
- What special skill outside my job am I bringing to the Team?
- Share workshop ground rules and ask if the team wants to add any.
Step 2: Clarify the Focus of the Team
Ask the Challenge Strategist to provide a 5-minute overview:
- Set the context – refer back to the broader strategy and long term goals.
- Outline the focus area, and explain why and how it was chosen.
- Clarify why these Team members were chosen.
- Clarify what is expected of the Team.
Questions and answers: Allow Team members time to think of questions, and to write these down on post-it notes. Then as a Team Coach, read each question and invite the Challenge Strategist and/or other leaders to respond.
Thank the leaders for making the time and for their willingness to be ‘put on the spot’. Remind them to re-join the Team to give feedback on the 100-Day Goal and the 100-Day Plan during the last session of the workshop. And make sure to let them know they are welcome to stay a little while longer if they have time.
Step 3. What is a 100-Day Challenge?
Intro Video Part 1
Explain that the 100-Day Challenge is a special types of project.
Show the slide entitled: What is a 100-Day Challenge?
“So let’s explore what is different about it…”. Show part 1 of the intro video.
Pause after the video and ask participants to share experiences that they may have had in similar crisis situations and how performance and behaviour changed in these.
Summarise what is unusual about 100-Day Challenges by showing the slides on “unusual behaviours”.
Intro Video Part 2 – Unique Features
Show the second video about the events and enabling environment.
Step 4: The Journey of the 100-Day Team
“So you may be asking, what are we going to do over the next 100 days, and what is our role?”
Share the slide on the events in the 100-Day Challenge, and indicate that with the Start-Up workshop today, the 100-day count down will start tomorrow.
Share the slide on Roles to clarify the roles of Challenge Strategist, Team Members and Team Coach. This is a good slide to transition into “the work we will do today”.
Step 5: The Work We Will be Doing Today
“So you may be asking, what do we need to do today?”
- We will set our 100-Day Goal.
- We will create a Team Agreement on how we, as a team, will work together for the next 100 days.
- Based on our goal, we will develop our 100-Day Plan.
“This is the work we will be doing today. But before we shape our 100-day goal, let’s pause to see what questions you may have about 100-Day Challenges and how they are similar and different from regular projects.”
If you feel there is confusion and people are not sure what to ask, invite them to take 5 minutes in small groups to talk about the videos and identify questions that they would like clarification on before proceeding to the next agenda item.
