Welcome to SEOCHC Train the Trainers and Leadership Skills Course October 9 12, 2004

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Welcome to SEOCHCTrain the Trainers and
Leadership Skills CourseOctober 9 12, 2004
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Participants Introduction
One-minute autobiography Each person has one
minute to tell about himself/herself. Nothing
about job, family and home town. Tell us what
bothers you most when you want to concentrate in
a meeting/training/class
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Objectives Workshop 1

• Differentiate between Teaching and Facilitation
• To give participants new insight and specific
  tools for leading and facilitation.
• Identify characteristics of an effective leader.
• Understand the difference between management and
  leadership.

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Objectives Workshop 1

• Explain the importance of empowerment in the
  community development and prevention effort.
• Describe the importance of a shared vision to
  organizational development.

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Difference between Training Education
Behaviour Learning Experiences Goal
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Pedagogy vs Andragogy

• Pedagogy means teaching of children,
• Andro comes from the Greek meaning "man" or adult
  in this case, and "-gogy" means "teaching and
  "agogus," the art and science of helping students
  to learn.
• Androgogy means "teaching of men", or "teaching
  of adults" or "adult learning

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5 crucial assumptions about adult learners that
make them different from child learners

• 1. Self-concept As a person matures his/her self
  concept moves from one of being a dependent
  personality toward one of being a self-directed
  human being
• 2. Experience As a person matures he/she
  accumulates a growing reservoir of experience
  that becomes an increasing resource for learning.

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• 3. Readiness to learn. As a person matures
  his/her readiness to learn becomes oriented
  increasingly to the developmental tasks of his
  social roles.
• 4. Orientation to learning. As a person matures
  his/her orientation toward learning shifts from
  one of subject-centeredness to one of problem
  centeredness.
• 5. Motivation to learn As a person matures the
  motivation to learn is internal

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Teaching Vs Facilitation

• Teacher Teaches (leads), Facilitator guides.
• Teaching mostly one way traffic, Facilitation
  interactive/participatory.
• Teaching is pouring into empty vessel.
  Facilitation is taking participants through
  E-I-A-G (Experience-Identify-Analyze-Generalize)
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• Facilitation deals with behaviours, skills and
  techniques that help a group work together
  effectively and accomplish its purpose.

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Leadership and facilitation
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Group work (Take notes, discuss and present)

• What is happening in the video?
• Who is who?
• What is the problem?
• What is needed?
• Who are you?
• What is your role?
• Challenges in playing your roles?

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What is leadership?
Leadership is Influence Any time you try to
influence the behavior of another person for a
collective goal, you are engaging in an act of
leadership.
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Leadership definitions
The knowledge, attitudes and behaviors used to
influence people in order to achieve a desired
mission.
The art of getting others to want to do something
that you are convinced should be done.
A way of focusing and motivating a group to
enable them to achieve their aims.
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Leaders born or made?
Experience shows

• Leadership a set of learnable competencies.
• All leaders are good learners.

Leadership requires SELF-CONFIDENCE comes
from SELF-AWARENESS - LEARNING about oneself
(skills, prejudices, talents and short comings)
OBSERVATION a must.
SELF-CONFIDENCE develops as we build on strengths
and overcome weaknesses.
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Autocratic (telling)(Mine) versus
participative (selling, consulting)(Yours)
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Involved(Teamwork)(Ours) versus
Empowering(Delegated)
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All the way to empower!

• Mine - autocratic
• Yours
• Ours - participative
• Delegated
• Teamwork - involved
• EMPOWERED

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Transformational/empowering Leadership

• Have a positive, unifying effect (help establish
  vision, values, beliefs)
• Lead to the accomplishment of goals (help set
  goals and create an empowering environment where
  others can succeed in the work and activities)
• Enhance personal development and organizational
  productivity (remove obstacles and assist
  followers to use their power empowerment).

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The 4 es and values ...

• Envision having a vision, then developing a
  plan .
• Energize motivating, selling and simplifying.
• Enable creating systems processes for action.
  
• Empower letting people achieve the vision.
• Values deeply held values and principles
  provide the road map for the way we lead, and the
  way other people respond to us.

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All you need to know about Leadership...

• Leaders create ( need) followers.
• Leaders create ( need) change.
• Leaders have a rock-solid value system which
  provides the glue.

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empowerment

• Interdependence means Leaders empower people to
  achieve the vision.
• The Leader sets out a contract with his or her
  followers. The followers have a contract with
  their Leader, for success and failure, reward and
  sanction.
• Both are given mutual freedom, yet held mutually
  accountable. Both are thus empowered.

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Leadership Vs Management
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Leadership Vs Management
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Leaders Develop/Foster Other Leaders

• Act as Teachers and Coaches
• Facilitators of others who do the work
• Resource providers
• Communicators of the vision
• Climate setters.

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Training and facilitation

• Review of group facilitations methods for
  improving
• ATTITUDE, SKILLS and KNOWLEDGE.
• Lectures
• Demonstration and practical exercises
• Group methods
• Brainstorming
• Simulations and role plays
• Computer aided instruction
• Audiotapes videos, and reading
• Peer review
• Reflective activities
• Case Studies
• Debate

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Effective Facilitators

• Flexible. modify small group activities before
  and during use.
• Proactive. Before using a small-group activity,
  they modify it on the basis of the
  characteristics of the participants and the
  purpose of the activity.
• Responsive. They make modifications during the
  small-group activity to keep emerging tensions
  within acceptable ranges.
• Resilient. They accept whatever happens during
  the small-group activity as valuable data and
  smoothly continue with the activity.

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