TOP Mission Adaption

Adaption Event

When the TOP Coalition has conducted a set of agreed actions, they will recap whether in their environment:
  • the actions have provided the intended progress towards the goal,
  • a change of plan is necessary to make progress
  • side effects occurred that need to be addressed

Expected Outcome

The key outcome of the Adaption event is a common understanding on successes, failures, learnings, side effects, upcoming changes and next steps.

The event is successful when the coalition understands how to proceed.

Frequency

The Mission Adaptation recurs whenever a TOP Coalition has either conducted a set of agreed actions, or discovered that these actions are unfeasible.

Event Agenda

Like all TOP Structure events, the mission adaption event does not need to follow any specific agenda in order to achieve its purpose. This sample agenda may serve as a guideline for arranging a mission adaption event.

ActivityPurpose
Goal Reflection What was the TOP goal? Did it change, were there progress or setbacks? How can learnings be utilized to be more successful in the next steps?
Pivot or Persevere The coalition determines whether to persevere in further steps towards the same TOP Goal or to pursue a new TOP Goal - or to call their mission a success and adjourn.
If the coalition determines that they will
  • persevere on the current TOP Goal, they will proceed with the Mission Launch event.
  • discover new goals, they will proceed with the Goal Setting event.
  • pivot the next goal from the list of known goals, they SMART their goal and proceed with the Mission Launch event.
  • complete their mission and adjourn, they will have a closing event and the responsibility for the TOP Goals moves to the TOP Sponsor, who will then organize a Formation event with a new coalition.

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