Guidance on Coaching 100-Day Challenge Teams
The purpose of this guide is 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.
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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 support leaders so they inspire a cross-organisational team to make significant progress on an important GBVF issue.
You, and the team you coach, will be joining 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 Programme is organised into several Guidance Notes (GN). The first four GNs provide background related to GBVF in South Africa. These second group of GN’s relate more generally to the 100-Day Challenge Approach and specifically to the work you will do to coach and support a 100-Day Challenge team.
Here is an overview of the Guidance Notes in this Learning Programme.
GBVF related Guidance Notes
A. Strategic Context: National Strategic Plan to end GBVF and the End GBVF Collective
B. Building on Success: Gallery of Ending GBVF 100-Day Challenges in South Africa over the past three years
C. Ending GBVF Dashboard: The compass we use to know the scope and scale of our impact
D. Do No Harm: Practical guidance on working with GBV survivors.
100-Day Challenge Guidance Notes
Someone in a leadership position in your organisation initiated this process. This “Challenge Strategist” invited you to become a Coach so you can help organize and support a 100-Day Team as they sprint through their 100-Day Challenge.
You will work with the Challenge Strategist to help the team Get to the Starting Gate. At that point, the Challenge Strategist will hand over the baton to you so you guide the Team through the Start-Up Workshop. At the Start-Up Workshop, the Team will elect its own Team Leader. So at the end of the Start-Up Workshop, you will hand over the baton to the Team Leader, and you will fall back into a support role for the Team Leader and the Challenge Strategist.
The Team Leader will pass the baton back to you halfway through the sprint and at the finish line. You will guide the Team at the halfway mark through the Reflect and Reenergise Workshop, and at the finish line through the Scale-Up Workshop.
The first cluster of 100-Day Challenge Guidance Notes aare aimed at helping you understand the way 100-Day Challenges work, and your specific role as a Coach in guiding and supporting them. They focus in particular on the role you play supporting the Challenge Strategist to get the Team to the Starting Gate.
The second cluster of 100-Day Challenge Guidance Notes are organized in a weekly basis, starting two weeks before Day One (the Start-Up Workshop), and ending the week after Day 100 (Scale-up Workshop).
Each week, the Guidance Note will prepare you for the work you will need to do the week after, and support you in the work you will do during the week. the As part of this, you two Guidance Notes are the exact same ones that the Challenge Strategist is using to get acquainted with the
Onramp – Getting the team to the starting gate: What must you do in the next 2-3 weeks to support the leaders and to give the team a good start to its 100-day race?
Coaching guidance for the 14-week race: The online guide is organised into weekly lessons designed to help you Coach the team working on the Challenge on a just-in-time basis.
Oframp
Getting Ready for the Marathon: How can you ensure the team’s impact during the 100 days is sustained and amplified?
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By the end of this program, you will have gained and practised new skills that will be valuable for you and your organisation. It will be an intense onramp and fourteen weeks, 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.
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