What can I expect at the Landing Workshop on day 100?

What can I expect at the Landing Workshop on day 100?


What to expect at the
Landing Workshop

This marks the end of the team journey in the 100-Day Challenge. It is a time of celebration, bragging, reflecting, and pontificating! Yes, you read right: pontificating. The team has earned the right to tell the mentors what they think the latter should do and to challenge them to sustain and build on the gains they (the team) have made and the insights they have gained over the past 100 days.

What success looks like at the end of the Workshop.

The team will feel proud of what they have achieved and will feel acknowledged and honoured for the hard and creative work they did and for the impact they helped create. They will feel that, even though the past 100 days were exhausting, it is an experience they would love to go through again. 

Mentors will feel proud of the team and will look back at the experience as liberating: “We do not have to figure out everything ourselves. We have a bigger role to play than solving problems. We need to decide on a direction of travel and then pick the right team to explore the way in that general direction. We trust they will figure things out. We will stand back and support them as they do this.”

Watch the video to see the essence of the Workshop.

Key outputs

  • Menu of action recommendations that will be shared with leaders at the Re-Launch Workshop.
  • One or two commitments from each team member to the shifts they would like to bring into their own organisation and day-to-day work, building on their experience over the past 100 days.
  • List of leaders to invite to the Re-Launch workshop.

Landing Workshop Agenda

Preparations before the Workshop

Consider the following questions:

  • How close will we be towards achieving their goal? 
  • What ideas or actions had the biggest impact on our results?
  • What did not work and how did we adjust?
  • What where memorable experiences you?  The most impactful moments or ideas? 
  • Aside from the mentors, are there other leaders we may want to invite to participate in the workshop? 

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?

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?
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.