Key Highlights:
- Expanding Leadership Development in East Africa
- Innovative Training Methods
- Strategic Institutional Partnerships
It is the common vision that Trinity Western University shares with global education partners in training leaders marked with expressions of creativity, integrity, and a culture of high performing teams. The Department of Leadership at TWU GLOBAL has recently ventured out to East Africa for a leadership development workshop and engaging in some collaborative work with different organizations over the last few months.
During this visit, TWU GLOBAL welcomed members of the newly formed Department of Leadership. They are coordinators for programs in leadership offered in both the Bachelor of Arts in Leadership and the Master of Arts in Leadership offered on campuses of TWU in Langley and Richmond. The event featured presentations tailored for the current leaders and the next leaders: The leaders.
It was in the form of six leadership development workshops facilitated under the international technique of LEGO Serious Play, Dr. Shawna Nist as Dean and Associate Professor of Leadership where imaginative, team-generated, and problemsolving ideas will be taught with assistant professor of leadership Dr. Ruth Anaya on valuesbased leadership, women’s leadership and gender equality as well as directing a round table on the transform role of technology in online eduction by online director Colin Madland.
The first session was at Kurumbuka Leadership Solutions, Kigali, Rwanda. Kurumbuka accelerates African leadership development. Since the session by Dr. Nist was to last for three hours, thirty professionals were going to be left with almost no chance of discussion on actual issues. The much more straight forward interaction of his with the students about his process of leadership development was immediately visible when he said that the skills of the students define their future.
The team from TWU took a tour from Bishubi, Rwanda to Entebbe, Uganda. There they met Bishop Stuart University (BSU) and Word of Life Fellowship Uganda. The faculty conducted trainings even as an attempt to advice the administrators from both BSU and Word of Life Fellowship on ways of planning solutions to some of the problems facing the institution. The doc coordinated LSP-based workshops directed at improving on group teamwork and effective communication within the leaders.
He has gone ahead to add that, for him, change was supposed to be the door opener. The doc says: “We ignited a fire of possibilities that shall far outshine our time here. The bright minds we met today are tomorrows.
The leadership development in TWU has empowered and equipped people and other institutions with the right skills towards acting for positive changes in their communities.
