Africa Community Council

Proposed Program and Implementation

ACC plans to offer a comprehensive leadership program for youth and adults in the Washington Metropolitan Area, which is designed to motivate and teach our taeget population the youths and young adults how to be an effective leader. Our program will ascribe to the 3 P’s: Provision, Potential, and Purpose. 

Leadership Training Course Overview

1.    Effective Communication – Understand that the skills of communicating well are not just for presentations but can be used when one is sharing ideas.  Learn to communicate with adults

 

2.    Discovering Your Vision – What are your natural talents and passions, and how to use them to achieve success

 

3.     Setting Goals – Taking the time to set and write down your goals and use them to achieve your vision

4.     Preparing Your Plans – Use planning as a step in reaching goals and fulfilling visions.

5.     Problem Solving – Discuss the similarities between planning and problem solving

6.     Leadership Approaches – Discuss the 4 leadership approaches (Explaining, Demonstrating, Guiding, Enabling) and apply them to team development

7.     Teaching EDGE – Describe the 4 steps of the Teaching Edge (Explain, Demonstrate, Guide, Enable) and how to use effective communications skills as a tool for teaching

8.     Resolving Conflicts – Describe ways that a good leader minimizes conflict.  Learn how to use EAR (Express, Address, Resolve) as a tool  for resolving conflict. 

9.     Making Ethical Decisions – Give a definition for “ethics” and discuss the importance of ethical decision-making.

10. Leading Yourself – Discuss the importance of having a personal vision and the phases of personal development (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing)

11. Valuing People – How to act in an ethical manner in dealing with people whose core values differ form ours.  How to use ROPE (Reach, Organize, Practice, Experience) to strengthen these action strategies