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Training and Resourcing
How we do training...
Global LEAD Alliance uses two primary training events to fulfill its vision: Leadership Consultations and Training of Trainers workshops.
Leadership Consultations
These one to three-day events provide leadership training to local leaders in character development, Biblical knowledge, and leadership skills. In addition, they serve as an introduction to the model of Global LEAD Alliance and challenge local leaders to be intentional about leadership development. Trainers for these Consultations include a cross-cultural team from Global LEAD Alliance.
Training of Trainers (TOT)
This core event of Global LEAD Alliance is four days of intensive training for those who want to design their own locally-owned leadership development programs. Participants learn the philosophy of leadership development, look closely at desired outcomes, grapple with the complex question of how leaders are formed, and think about how to contextualize leadership development in their own setting. In addition, they learn practical skills for designing their own program and how to create assignments that transform lives. At the completion of the training they produce an action plan with the steps they will take to develop a local program. Click here to view the diagram which illustrates the entire process.
The TOT provides participants with extensive notes of all sessions, models of existing programs, sample lessons from the core curriculum and reference material helpful for launching new programs. In addition, participants receive electronic copies of Global LEAD Alliance’s resource CD.
Global LEAD Alliance seeks funding for the TOT event to assist the participants to attend and produce the necessary materials for the training. After the TOT is completed the participants develop their own programs using locally generated funds.
One TOT event normally assists in launching between five to ten programs within one year. Each of these programs trains between ten and forty persons per year on an ongoing basis and often multiply themselves and begin other programs in nearby regions.
Click here for a diagram of the components of the Training of Trainers.
Resourcing
In addition to the philosophical framework taught in the TOT, Global LEAD Alliance provides fifteen core concepts which form the basis of curriculum development. An option core curriculum of twenty-one ready-to-teach lessons is provided as an additional resource. These one-hour lessons have been tested internationally and include teachers’ notes, student handouts, and learning assignments focused on application and life change. These resources enable a program to begin quickly while encouraging further contextualization as the program develops. The translation of these materials into local languages provides an effective way for thousands of church and marketplace leaders to be trained. which form the basis of curriculum development.