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The leaders in your organisation, municipality, or community have selected an Impact Indicator and a Team during their Leadership Design Workshop. 

The countdown for Lift-off starts at the Lift-Off Workshop. You want to make sure that everything is ready. You have been told that a successful Lift-Off Workshop accounts for at least 50% of a successful 100-Day Challenge… 

So the stakes are really high…

 

The activities you will organise will be explained using a case study, revealing information as you progress through the story. We’ll break things down into concrete and actionable steps. We will point you in the direction of links, references and tools you can use along the way.  

At the end of this Landmark, you will be able to:

  1. Prepare for the Lift-off Workshop with the Mentors.
  2. Facilitate goal-setting and work-planning sessions with the team.
  3. Help the team develop its operating agreement – how they will self-govern and manage themselves during the 100 days.
  4. Prepare the team and mentors for the Exploration part of the 100-day journey.

At the start of the Lessons in this Landmark, you will find the Ambassador Toolkit where you can download documents and templates to use in preparation for the Lift-off Workshop.  To complete the Landmark and earn “fuel points”, submit the assignments in the Toolkit.

Thought starter 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?
  • 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.