Guidance on Coaching 100-Day Challenge Teams
The purpose of this Learning Guide to prepare you to coach a rapid (100-day) project team that aims to significantly improve a strategic issue that requires fresh thinking and collaboration across departments and/or organisations.
The approach you will learn about is called the 100-Day Challenge. Leaders and in the private sector, in Government and non-profit organisations have used it to make breakthrough improvements on a multitude of issues and in dozens of countries around the world. So, you will join a community of global coaches who have helped leaders achieve remarkable results by empowering and enabling others in their organisations and communities.
Below are some of these leaders and Coaches describing the results they were able to inspire through 100-Day Challenges.
Octavia
Nadim.
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Our Challenge: Tackling Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) in South Africa
You are a trusted staff member at a court, municipality, or TVET. Your role is to support leaders in inspiring a cross-organisational team to make significant progress on an important GBVF issue.
You will join a movement of activists who are taking the initiative and actually doing something about GBVF in our country rather than waiting for instructions and guidance from outside and above.
This Learning Guide includes Guidance Notes, and Learning Deep Dives. The Guidance Notes are designed to equip you with what you need, each week, to play the role of 100-Day Challenge effectively. There is one Guidance Note per week, starting 2 weeks before Day ZERO – when the 100-Day Team gets together for the first time to prepare for their 100 days.
Each Guidance Note references a number of Learning Deep Dives – these are topics that would be useful for you to learn about so you are well prepared to carry out your tasks for the week. These Learning Deep Dives are organized in a Toolkit for the week. Some of these Learning Deep Dives appear in multiple weeks, as they may be relevant for your tasks at various points during the 100 days.
The first Guidance Note includes Learning Deep Dives on the topic that you and your colleagues are working on, to provide a strategic context and some useful background, before diving into the 100-Day Challenge process.
The 100-Day Challenge as a Relay Race
SO THE FIRST THING TO SHOW WOULD BE THE GRAPHIC OF THE RELAY RACE TRACK. LABELING THE ACTORS AS THEY EMERGE ON THE SCENE AND AS THEY PASS ON THE BATON TO EACH OTHER.
WE CAN THEN EXPLAIN THE GRAPHIC IN THE TEXT BELOW. WHEN THE COACHES ARE DESIGNATED, WE WILL FIRST WHATSAPP THEM THE INTRO ABOVE, AND THEN THE GRAPHIC AND THE TEXT BELOW. AFTER THAT WE PUSH OUT GUIDANCE NOTES.
The 100-Day Challenge can be viewed as a relay race, with the baton getting passed back and forth between the different runners. When a runner passes the baton, they do not get out of the race. They continue to run along-side the runner with the baton, supporting and cheering them along. For unlike relay races, they will be handed baton back one or more times during the race. The runner holding the baton, though, is the one leading the show for that part of the race.
The Guidance Notes listed below will help you understand and play your role during the race, week by week, whether you are holding the baton or not. The weekly Guidance Notes will be short and practical: what will you need to pay attention to during that week. Some of these weekly Guidance Notes will make reference (and will be hyperlinked) to more in depth Learning Deep Dives” that will help you better understand and prepare for the things you need to do that week.
The first Guidance Note includes Learning Deep Dives on the topic that you and your colleagues are working on, to provide a strategic context and some useful background, before diving into the 100-Day Challenge process.
As you can see in the graphic, you will be holding the baton as of week of “-2” (two weeks before Day 0 – the Start-Up Workshop). Before that, you will be supporting the Strategic Challenger in their efforts to get the 100-Day Team recruited and to get them to the Starting Gate, ready for the race! The first Guidance Note covers your support role during that early part of the relay race. This could cover multiple weeks, though day 0 (Start-Up Workshop) will be no later than 4 weeks after you had been designated as Coach.
LIST OF GUIDANCE NOTES
By the end of this Programme, you will have gained and practised new skills that will be valuable for you and your organisation. It will be an intense experience, so buckle up!
North-West University Certification
The management department at North-West University has adopted this program as one of its mini-courses on leadership and project management. You will be eligible to receive a certificate of participation from the University if you complete the assignments at the end of each guidance note.
The mini-course certificate can be used for credit towards a master’s degree in management from the University. A registration fee of ____ is required to enrol in the certification program. Please reach out to us at info@theworldofimpact.org if you’d like to enrol.
Where can I get help?
Tools and people are available if you need guidance or a second opinion. Follow the links or email us to connect.
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