Leadership Development
A community can only rise as high as its best servant-leaders, as a myriad of problems exists. Around 70% of families are broken homes with women leading 90% of those homes. Challenges between Haitian-Bahamians and Haitian migrants are often executed in the absence of due process. Government corruption is a serious problem and is thought to have had significant economic consequences. To bring the entire community together, servant leadership is needed now more than ever.
Major tension between local and migrant populations
70% of families are broken homes
Loss of specialized expertise when Bahamians remain abroad after formal education
What We Do
Through Leadership Development, we want to equip and strengthen leaders who can transform their communities and bring unity, stability, and hope. Our programs encourage and challenge individuals to be servant-hearted, focusing on the needs of their communities. With programs designed for lay leaders, youth, and leaders-of-leaders, we aim to create a solid foundation for change by investing in all levels of leadership including local women and men who lead in love.
Lead Like Jesus
Working with permission on a version of Lead Like Jesus, created by Ken Blanchard, Phil Hodges, and Phyllis Hendy Halverson, we have created an adapted, contextualized, and relationship-driven program to move people from where they are to where God wants them to be. The training focuses on a beautiful definition of leadership as influence: loving those you influence. This is being used as the foundational discipleship material, focusing on the Heart, Head, Hands, and Habits of a leader. Small classes of about 15 students allow for a personal discipleship model.
There are two levels of training, each running over five months.
Level 1 focuses on the transformation of the Heart of a leader. The course concludes with the students creating action plans that are focused on a problem, challenge, or need in their area of influence.
Level 2 focuses on the Hands of the leader in leading people, applied in Bahamian culture. The opposite of pride and fear are addressed. It concludes with a focus on the Doing Habits of extending grace, offering encouragement, and building community.
Leadership Resources
With our connection to global leadership expertise, we conduct various conferences, teachings, and knowledge-sharing with leaders-of-leaders of communities. These specifically address servant leadership topics, as many times the issue of true community development is the lid of the leadership of those at the top. Designed to share useful knowledge and community transformational tools for long-term development, this program will continue to evolve over the next several years based on community needs.
Our Impact
15
leaders targeted for Lead Like Jesus training
2
Conferences targeted in 2024