Get ready to Lift-off

Get ready to Lift-off

Get ready to Lift-off

Practice your understanding of the key elements of the Lift-off session by doing the exercises below and doing the preparation work. Submit your preparations for feedback from the coaches. After you practice you can download a complete slide pack, facilitation guide and templates, to help you facilitate the Lift-off.

Goal exercise

Create at least two 100-day goal templates in the same format as the examples goals in the flip exercise. This will prepare you to help the team if they struggle with goal setting.

Which of the two goals (A or B), best reflect a 100-Day Challenge?

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Mentor behaviour exercise

This exercise will help you to support and guide the team mentors.  Select the behaviours that a good Mentor do?

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Work plan exercise

The work plan grows from ideas into milestones and action steps. In the Kick-off work plan, the milestones and actions steps will have a team member responsible for each. To help you understand the difference, identify which categories the following statements correspond to.

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Team agreement exercise

During the team agreement module, the team agrees on how they would like to work together. When time is running out, and you don’t have enough time to do the whole team agreement module, which three decisions from the list below, are essential to agree on, before the end of the workshop?

Please select 3 correct answers after you have read all the options

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Preparing to guide the team

Submit tasks

Complete preparation tasks 1 to 3.   These will be discussed with the coaches before the workshop

Slide pack for Lift-off session

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Printable Facilitation guide

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Work plan template

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5. Practice
Decide which part of the agenda each ambassador will facilitate and practice together before the workshop.

6. Event logistics – things to consider

    • Secure venue and refreshments. Room set-up U-shape or round tables for group work
    • Arrange a Projector (if needed also a camera, video, microphone, sound)
    • Stationary: Flipchart + Markers. Paper, Post-it notes and Pens + 3 Tennis balls per team

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.