The Leadership for Hope Program is based on two principles:
- Together we can achieve more than we can do on our own.
- Change your thinking, change your life.
Life Skills Courses
Leadership for Hope Program
Course Details
The program word consists of 4 modules of 4 to 5 hours each:
- Module 1 : Lead yourself.
- Module 2 : Lead your team.
- Module 3 : Lead your Finances.
- Module 4 : Lead your Project.
Course Developer: Emerging Leaders (www.emergingleaders.net)
Course Content
Module 1: Lead yourself: If you can change your mindset, you can change your life.
- Poverty thinking – How do I think?
- Think like a leader – How does a leader think?
- Leadership thinking – 7 methods.
- The hart and character of a leader – Why am I here?
- My life story – Do I know my life story?
- Writing my life story – Who is writing my life story? How do I achieve my life goals? 5 Steps to write my own story.
Module 2: Lead your team. Know the goal and let other know your goals.
- The goal – Why have goals?
- Values and behaviour – How to treat team members?
- Shared Vision – Where is “there”?
- Strategy– How to ensure that the project works?
- Rolls and responsibilities – Who is doing what?
- Processes – How are we going to work together?
- Support and development – How do we grow?
Module 3: Lead your Finances. Finances are a leadership issue
- What keeps us in poverty?
- What is good and bad financial management?
- What are your dreams?
- Change your financial position by changing your way of thinking.
- Together we can do more.
- Save for your life.
- Personal budget for the future.
Module 4: Lead your own project
- What is the “why”? What is the purpose of our project?
- Where is “here”? Start with the reality – What do we have?
- Where is “there”? What is our shared vision?
- What is our focus? What key points do we focus on?
- Who are my partners? Who are going to assist us with our project?
- What are he steps form “here” to “there”? Planning.
- We have to take control of our finances. Budget
Methodology of Presentation
Methodology of Presentation
- Understandable theoretic principles.
- Role plays
- Visual presentations.
- Group discussions.
- Homework – Start with leadership steps.
Certification
Certification of Students
Students will receive certificates only if:
- All 4 modules were attended.
- Active participation in all 4 modules.
- An action plan for each module can be shown.
- A project plan is developed and implemented that show improvement in their own, work and community life.
Program Benefits
Benefits for the students:
- They take leadership of their own lives.
- Start projects to benefit their own future.
- They have a positive attitude.
- They become more financially independent.
- They become more focused on their work and as a result they are more productive.
Benefits for the Employer:
- Positive employees.
- Employees take initiative.
- Stronger leaders in work, at home and in community.
- Employees that grow.
Success Stories
There are many success stories of people who have completed the Leadership for Hope Program, these include:
- A lot of people who completed the course started saving for retirement/children/houses or emergency ranging from R100 to R2000 per month.
- Teams of people going into their community to fix up local schools.
- Groups who donate vegetables to old age homes and deaf schools.
- Students building houses for themselves.
- People buying cars cash.
- People learning to read and write.
- People drinking less alcohol and using the extra money rather for the future of their kids.
Healthy Lifestyle
Course Details
- Demonstrate self knowledge and skills in effectively application of personal temperament in a team within the community, family and workplace
- Demonstrate skills needed in dealing with stress/conflict within the community, family and workplace in the workplace
- Demonstrate skills needed in goal setting and motivation of self and others
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance and process of creating a balanced life style
- Demonstrate an understanding of a value system acceptable to the workplace and relevant community and family
- Demonstrate effective decision making and problem solving skills
- Explain the basic principles of personal hygiene
- Demonstrate an understanding of healthy and nutritious eating habits
- Demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of abusing drugs and medicine
- Demonstrate an understanding of sports and/or recreational activities for a healthy lifestyle
Life Skills & Business
Business Etiquette
- Introduction and greetings
- Self presentation
- Grooming
- Dress code
- Behaviour and attitude
- Telephone etiquette
- Hospitality at work
Business Writing Skills
- Effective business letters
- Letter of enquiry
- Letter of complaint
- Adjustment letters
- Invitations
- Acceptance letters
- Refusal letters
- Circulars
- Job applications
- Resignation letters
- Facsimile
- Memos
- Telephone messages
- Goodwill letters
- Telegrams
Stress Management
- What is stress?
- Causes of stress
- Negative effects of stress
- Shake off stress
- Types of personalities
- Minimise negative effects
- Avoid personal job stress
- Burn out
Communication in the Work Place
- General Principals
- Listening skills
- Non verbal communications/body language
- Embarrassing moments
- Coping with skills deficiencies
- Style of communication
- Improving work habits
- Cross cultural communication in a business context
Decision Making & Problem Solving
- Helping your staff grow
- Develop your decision – making skills
- Formula for decision making
- Decision making under stress
- Case studies
Time Management
- Definition
- Work overload
- Rating tasks and setting priorities
- Time wasters
- Procrastination
- Unpleasant tasks
- Work area
Motivation in the Work Place
- Reasons for poor motivation
- Attitudes – ways of improving them
- Increased self motivation
- Enhancing and motivating others
- Goal setting/positive attitudes/assertiveness
- Reach your vision
- Putting your vision into action
- What is success?
- Professionalism
- What is as professional?
- What is a professional image?
- The magic of positive attitude
- Where are you now?
- Manage your job to best meet your personal goals
- How receptive are you?
Assertiveness versus deceptiveness
Managing Personal Finance
- Necessary skills to handle money
- The object of saving money
- Fleeing the dept trap
- Using a bank
- Why insurance is necessary
- Buying a house
- Buying a car
- Working to a budget
- Paying taxes
- Applying for credit
HIV/AIDS
Course Details
This training programme is aimed at any learner who needs to demonstrate an understanding of sexuality and HIV/AIDS, and the impact of the infection on oneself, as well as in the workplace and society. It is also aimed at encouraging a healthy lifestyle.
Participants in this programme will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/
- Describe means to cope and deal with sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS
- Describe human rights of individuals living with HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
- Describe and explain nature of HIV/AIDS
- Describe transmission routes
- Describe and explain practices, which reduce and prevent risk of
- Describe and analyse attitudes toward HIV and AIDS in the workplace
- Understanding the effects of HIV/AIDS on the immune system
- Knowing how HIV/AIDS is transmitted
- Knowing what behaviour is safe and what behaviour carries the risk of HIV/AIDS transmission
- Knowing what guidelines and assistance are available to support workers with HIV/AIDS and recognize own role in creating a caring work environment
- Understanding the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic for society, the economy, a business sub-sector, and organisation and a specific workplace
The following developmental outcomes are addressed:
- The learner is able to explore a variety of strategies to learn more effectively by identifying ways of educational opportunities to learn about the impact of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
- The learner is able to participate as a responsible citizen in community life when determining his/her role and contribution in the society and the workplace regarding beliefs and attitudes towards HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
- The learner is able to be culturally and aesthetically sensitive when discussing issues related to safe sex and the transmission of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
Prevention of Alcohol & Drug Abuse
Course Details
Prevention of substance abuse by creating awareness of the different types of chemical substances, the implications and effects of abuse on family life, the community and the workplace.
Participants in this programme will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of chemical substance abuse
- Know and describe the effects of abuse on the human body
- Demonstrate skills needed in dealing with drug/alcohol abuse at home
- Demonstrate skills needed in dealing with substance abuse by co-workers
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of a healthy life style needed to combat addiction
- Describe and analyse the importance of emotional maturity in sobriety
- Know and explain the right of the community with regards to substance abuse
- Describe various methods of rehabilitation and development of support systems
Sexually Transmitted Diseases & Their Prevention
Course Details
This training programme is aimed at any learner who needs to demonstrate an understanding of sexuality and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and the impact of these infections on oneself, as well as in the workplace and society. It is also aimed at encouraging a healthy lifestyle.
The following specific outcomes, as in accordance with SAQA registered Unit Standards, are addressed by this programme and are outlined below.
Participants in this programme will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS
- Describe means to cope and deal with sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS
- Describe human rights of individuals living with HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
- Describe and explain nature of HIV/AIDS
- Describe transmission routes
- Describe and explain practices, which reduce and prevent risk of infection
Socio-Legal Issues
Course Details
- Know and understand basic human rights
- Know and understand the rights of children and women
- Know and understand the legal implications of marriage and divorce
- Know and understand the legal implications of birth and abortion
- Know and understand the legal implications of adoption and foster care
- Know and understand the legal implications of bad debt
- Know and understand the legal implications of substance abuse
- Know and understand the legal implications of family violence and crime
Relationship Skills
Course Details
Development of relationship skills through education and practical implementation thereof. Enhancement of communication and problem solving skills needed in inter-human relationships.
Participants in this programme will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the need for effective communication
- Demonstrate an understanding of the different types of relationships
- Know and illustrate skills needed in dealing with difficulties in relationships
- Describe different styles of communication
- Demonstrate and understanding methods of problem solving and conflict management
- Demonstrate and understanding methods of building relationships
- Know and identify the various stressors in relationships