They are a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization that creates transformative and sustained impact on tough societal challenges. They bring about this transformation by embedding the Rapid Results Approach in social impact programs, typically in partnership with government agencies or non-governmental organizations. Their work enables front-line teams to deliver seemingly impossible results, often in 100 days or less, and helps leaders leverage these initial results into sustained, long term, impact.
They envision a world where communities and organizations around the world are accessing their full power to create a future that fulfills their aspirations.
They work on critical societal problems, and they strive to bridge the gap between aspirations and impact. They do this by choreographing 100-day challenges that nudge communities, organizations and government agencies – often working together – to achieve what appear to be impossible results. And they help leaders leverage the results and momentum created by these challenges into sustained, long-term impact.
The Rapid Results Institute was founded and spun out of Schaffer Consulting in 2007. Their work is inspired by the principles of results-driven change that Dr. Robert H. Schaffer and his colleagues pioneered in large corporations.
Why They Are Different
They don’t have the answers to the problems. Instead they help unleash the entrepreneurial energy in the organization and community to solve these problems.
The 100-days challenge liberates front-line teams to innovate, experiment, and bend the rules. Teams produce remarkable results in 100 days. But as importantly, mindset and behaviors shift, new relationships are forged, and confidence levels rise.
Even when a team fails to achieve its 100-day goal, the persistence and perseverance over the 100 days generate tremendous insight and value for the organizations involved.
