Leaders Educated And Prepared

Stage 1: Take a LEAP to Lead class

Cultivate the tools every leader must have

Stage 2: Build your LEAP

Pick your diverse partners

Stage 3: Connect and collaborate

Break down barriers, build trust with your partners

Stage 4: Commit to change

Assess your communities and declare a mission for your LEAP

Stage 5: LEAP in Action

Design, implement, and fund your solution

Stages of a LEAP

LEAP: We're out to change the world...starting with ourselves.

Stage 1: Take a LEAP to Lead class

Cultivate the tools every leader must have

LEAP to Lead is a 12-unit leadership training and development program with weekly personal and peer coaching. The skills covered in this curriculum help identify and eliminate hurdles that keep the individual from reaching his or her potential. LEAP to Lead is focused on the following themes:

• Unit 1: Who Me a LEADER? Choose respect, response ability and leadership

• Unit 2: Vision and Voice: Act with conviction, courage, commitment and compassion

• Unit 3: Touch, Move, and Inspire: Inspire the individual to believe in the power of collaboration and teamwork

• Unit 4: Integrity and Accountability: A leader acts with integrity and accountability

• Unit 5: Stand up and Bounce Back: Be fully responsible for your life

• Unit 6: Resilience: Identify your patterns of resilience and commit to strength in adversity

• Unit 7: Facts are Facts, Speak to Success: Clearly understand the difference between the facts and your interpretation of the facts

• Unit 8: Humility and Confidence: How to build confidence with humility

• Unit 9: Failure as Opportunity: Unmask the fear of failure

• Unit 10: Look in the Mirror: Be self aware and don't go it alone

• Unit 11: Completion and Commitment: Commitment vs attachment

• Unit 12: Choose to be a Life Long Leader: Who do you choose to be?

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Stage 2: Build your LEAP

Pick your diverse partners
Form an interracial, interclass, multi-cultural team

To form an interracial, interclass, multi-cultural LEAP team, connect individuals from one global and two local diverse communities. This can be done either one at a time or all at once. You can identify and add the third partner at any time. The LEAP team is committed to help you identify a partner as needed.

We recommend you choose partners who:

• Support your mission

• Commit to a vision for change based on equality, collaboration, and empowerment

• Strive to connect education, community, empowerment and financial resources

• Assess the strengths and weaknesses in each community

• Will meet and/or communicate weekly to generate educational conversations based on empowerment and equality

• Will travel or host travelers safely

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Stage 3: Connect and collaborate

Break down barriers, build trust with your partners

Meet weekly and use debates, movie clips, public speaking, research, social networking, and collaborative service work to generate conversations that explore:

•  Barriers that often divide communities

•  Similarities and differences

•  The destructive nature of stereotypes and the need to broaden perspectives

•  The difference between and the unintended effects of entitlement vs. empowerment

•  The significance of confidence, integrity, and accountability

Leadership skills from the LEAP to Lead curriculum are developed and tested during this crucial phase of the LEAP. We recommend that you incorporate these themes and activities wherever possible. Our team remains available to you to facilitate, coach, teach or consult as needed.

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Stage 4: Commit to change

Assess your communities
Declare a mission for your LEAP

To create your team’s mission for change, ask each team member to evaluate his/her own community and:

• Identify chronic issues that need to be changed

• Identify the root(s) of each issue

• Examine the extent to which you each perpetuate the issue

• Examine the extent to which the issue keeps each of you from reaching your potential

• Look for commonalities in the problems that most negatively impact both you and each LEAP community

• Declare a collaborative mission

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Stage 5: LEAP in Action

Design, implement, and fund your solution
Generate micro enterprise, small loans, and local businesses
Connect with professionals to see mission to fruition

• Put your leadership skills to work

• Use public speaking and other skills to connect your team to professionals in the surrounding communities who can support your mission

• Generate business development within your communities

• Inspire team members to believe in their ability to be social entrepreneurs

• Empower each team member to step-up and act, to become more resilient as a leader in the larger community

• Research and collaborate with leading organizations and professionals who have proven success in your field or area of interest

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