Announcing our New Leadership Development Program!
Hi all!
Hope you all are well! I'm writing today with an exciting update. As many of you know, we have long had two tracks of volunteer roles on 7 Cups: listeners and leaders. At present, we have 411,000 volunteer trained listeners and over 1,000 community leaders.
We have spent years building out our listener training program. If you go to our training tab (https://www.7cups.com/listener/training.php), you'll see that we have 66 courses that you can take to strengthen core listener skills as well as learn how to better help people facing specific issues or challenges. These courses are really good too. We just had our Psychological First Aid course audited by a third party and it came off as strong and meeting their requirements. I suspect most of our courses would pass any sort of third-party auditing process.
On that same page, you can click on the blue certification button at the top to look at the more in-depth Active Listening 1-10 certificate programs we provide as well. In addition to these programs, we also provide internship programs for many universities. I'm proud of our curriculum. What I love most about it is that we can provide it at no cost. It is 100% free. I think that is fantastic.
We are now starting the process of building out a leadership training program. We are hoping to train 160 new leaders and many more as new opportunities emerge (check out these slides for a list of roles and opportunities to serve). We are calling it the Leadership Development Program. If you scroll down on that same page, then you'll see a new Header and links to the overview and first few courses in this program. When we started 7 Cups (way back in 2013!) we only had the very first active listener course that you all take. Now we have 66 courses. The same will happen with the leadership domain and then eventually other domains as the needs and training opportunities arise.
I've included more information on the overall program below. Our goal is to recruit more leaders, provide more leadership training for current leaders, and launch new leadership programs to help us better scale up care for our community.
If you are interested in becoming a leader on 7 Cups, then please sign up here.
We will start the first cohort in July (the 7/10 Cohort) and will notify you when we are ready to go. Our goal is to complete one course per month. We encourage everyone interested to apply asap, the deadline for the course is 7/10. The application process will remain open even after however you will join the next cohort (8/1/2020) if you miss the deadline.
Thoughts and feedback welcome!
Glen
Leadership Development Program
The 7 Cups Leadership Development Program is designed to help you become a strong leader. The program takes a personal approach and starts with helping you identify and build upon your natural gifts and strengths. It then transitions to focusing on the core discipline of problem-solving. The next course focuses on specific interpersonal skills needed to be a strong leader on 7 Cups, including mastery of communication skills, time management, conflict resolution, and stress management. The fourth course helps you learn how to build community through group support and sub-community work on 7 Cups. The last course provides an overview of servant leadership and other foundational leadership principles.
The program includes content components (reading, watching videos, and passing quizzes to show mastery of knowledge) and practice components. There is a learning by doing practical component where you practice what you learn by serving in a community domain alongside other leaders in either the engagement or quality programs. The program utilizes a cohort model of learning. You will start the program with a group of leaders and work through the curriculum of 5 courses as a cohort. You will receive a badge for the completion of each course and Leadership Studies Certificate upon completion of the entire program.
Here's where you can read about the courses:
Course 1. Personal Leadership 101: Identify and Build Your Strengths
Course 2. Becoming a 7 Cups Leader: Best Practices
Course 3. Personal Leadership 102: The Problem is the Path
Course 4. Foundational Leadership Principles
Course 5. Community Building Course: Challenge
This post is brought to you by the Leadership Development Program Team, find out more information about the program here.
@GlenM This is in a public area of the forum where members and guests can read it, but some of the links only work for listeners. This makes me think that perhaps the entire program is only for listeners, and a listener area of the forum might have been more appropriate.
Charlie
@RarelyCharlie
Thanks for pointing this out, Charlie! We've moved this over to Listener Learning and Journey. For now, this program is geared toward listeners, and if it's successful, we'll create a module for members as well.
@GlenM
I wish I could take part in it too. this is a huge opportunity
@Mankka it'll be great to have you join!
@GlenM
thank you ❤️I look forward to☺️
@GlenM
Is this only for people who already have leadership roles or can anyone do it?
@bookworm274 the training is open to all interested listeners :)
Thank you for this Glen. Looking forward to joining
@CheeryMango great to have you join!
@GlenM is there a glitch on the site? Some rooms are not showing up when using the browser.
@GlenM
I'm really looking forward to take more leadership roles but I have one question !
The amount of time these leadership forms takes to correct is quite long and it can be discouraging to check Everytime whether you have got any response or not, so at the moment does 7cups have enough listeners which grade these forms ?
@GlenM
Glen, this looks wonderful. I am so grateful that there now is an opportunity to create even more strongly qualified leaders for our lovely community. It has always been an inspiration for me to be able to serve this community, and this Program looks like a great chance to develop fundamental self-awareness on how to apply personal strengths to leadership along with a structured and no doubt inspirational education.
Thank you for creating this, and I have sent in my application.