Institution Building |
Sequus International Management: Consulting Education Development |
SEQUUS has been called upon frequently to help build or re-build institutions especially in devloping countries. A Model for Program Transfer SEQUUS has had considerable experience in transferring training curriculum as part of an institutional capacity building and development program. The Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity uses many of our training programs and counselling methodologies. The Small Enterprises Development Corporation in Zimbabwe currently uses a version of our Entrepreneurial Development Program and our Small Business Training Modules. In Indonesia, a consortium of non-Governmental Organizations uses our Managing the Non-Profit Organization training course throughout the country. In each case SEQUUS has used a three-step process which has proven to be an effective methodology for transferring a training technology to a recipient group. Step 1 Demonstration Program A training program is run as a demonstration program. The trainers from the recipient group who are to subsequently assume responsibility for the program, will be identified and will observe and participate in the program. SEQUUS trainers will conduct the program. The future trainers thus experience the program first hand and use the session to learn the content of the program. Step 2 Shared Leadership A second delivery of the program will be staged. The objective at this stage is to give as much leadership responsibility to the trainers form the recipient group as possible without unduly hampering the quality of the program delivery. Now the trainers from the recipient group get to practice delivering the content that they learned in Step 1. Throughout this second delivery, the future trainers focus on the "learning process" and making the course content both meaningful and clear for the participants. Step 3 Recipient Group Leadership In the third program, the roles are reversed and the trainers from the recipient group provide the leadership. SEQUUS acts as a support resource and readily participate in the leadership of the event should the trainers from the recipient group encounter difficulty. This third delivery is used to refine the presentation style of the recipient trainers, to assure that the quality of delivery is high and to encourage the recipient group to make innovative changes and improvements to the program without compromising the course objectives . |
