Guatemala October 15, 2024. FranklinCovey Educación Guatemala and Banco Industrial initiated the education project Soy Líder, in the year 2022, with the goal in mind of "Transforming Guatemala through teaching leadership principles to thousands of young people from different educational centers".

FranklinCovey Education is one of the most prestigious and trusted providers of leadership training programs, culture building and transformation processes. FranklinCovey's mission is to "Enable greatness in people and organizations", in this case in students, educators and school communities around the world. FranklinCovey's processes, books, methodologies and tools have been used by thousands of students in 85 countries and more than 6,000 educational centers around the world.

The leadership processes, based on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, are designed to be integrated into the curriculum and become part of the culture of the educational institution, producing improved results year after year, benefiting schools, students and the community in the following ways:

  • Develops students with the skills and self-confidence to succeed as leaders in the 21st Century.
  • Reduces discipline problems.
  • Teaches and develops character and leadership through the existing curriculum.
  • Improves academic achievement.
  • Raises levels of accountability.
  • To develop a process of personal transformation with an impact on the educational community, by training teachers in the development of 21st Century skills in students.

In this alliance with Banco Industrial, the Soy Líder program lasts for 3 years, with the second year currently ending, with the second level of certification of the Soy Líder Program of the participating institutions.

The Soy Líder program impacts 6,000 students each year between the third, fourth and fifth grades of primary school, as well as first, second, third basic, fourth and fifth high school. This program trained more than 100 teachers from 13 educational institutions of foundations, schools or institutes for whom it would be very difficult to reach this type of world-class programs.

FranklinCovey carefully develops and designs this process, which consists of training hours for teachers and principals, academies for them to learn how to teach it, digital resources (with a digital platform with 7,500 tools and resources of unlimited use to work in the classroom), active accompaniment of FranklinCovey's expert facilitators to teachers, coaching hours and visits to participating schools to verify the implementation. It is the unique combination of all these elements that allow us to generate change in people and institutions, which are measured through 5 different perspectives, which are worked on for the following year and continuous improvement is achieved.

Among the most notable results of the first year, we can highlight the following:

  • Attendance of more than 92% in training and support sessions.
  • Platform usage with more than 633
  • Leadership self-profile constructed for 100% of teachers and students, identifying areas of improvement on which each is already working to
  • Quality of implementation using the large stones methodology where extraordinary results stand out in:
    • Learning direct lessons
    • Use of leadership language in your day-to-day life
    • Self-definition of crucially important goals of all students, teachers and administrators.
    • Development of the
  • New leadership culture measured with the MRA methodology where it allows us to compare ourselves with educational institutions from different parts of the world in which we are at the moderately effective level of the scale, also identifying specific areas of improvement that will be worked on during the following year.

 

Some of the participants' testimonials are:

I am a leader helped me to realize how my actions are reflected in others, also the confidence we must have to achieve the goals we want to reach, as well as motivate our work group, also values such as respect, empathy, excellence, responsibility, resilience and perseverance. -Student

The Soy Líder program has been a gateway for my personal and professional development, it has allowed me to enhance my skills and find new ways to accompany my team and my students. I have learned to see a learning opportunity in every moment and to recognize that I am a leader when I wake up every morning with the decision to impact the lives of those around me in a positive way. -Director

For our children, the Soy Líder program helped them this year to discover various talents, to better balance their self-esteem and to increase leadership, especially the girls since they come from a culture where women are mistreated, humiliated and not taken into account. We are seeing incredible changes! Thank you very much!!!. - Teacher

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