Capstone Summary

The main purpose of this project is helping the organization improve its productivity or performance by enhancement of employee skills. This can be done by establishing the capacity for development of human resources. Prudence is required when dealing with child care, and especially the street child. It requires for the volunteers and employees to firmly control their temperament. Further, it requires specific leadership skills necessary for volunteering. Volunteers are supposed to be constantly motivated. Nonchalant volunteers and workers could potentially hurt children already experiencing difficulties in their lives. Surveys, interviews, direct observation, work samples, report studies, and consultations with the organization’s directors are the tools needed for identification of organizational needs. Results of the needs analysis process will help us gain knowledge of the issues that volunteers and workers face, as well as the weaknesses existing in the organization, such as the difficulties faced by the children in need of help.

Outline of Action Plan

As mentioned above, the purpose of this project is fostering important leadership skills among the volunteers and workers in the organization. Therefore, a carefully nurtured training program would be established for volunteers where they would gain leadership skills knowledge, as well as their importance in volunteering. In the design of a training program that is extensive, we will conduct interviews and surveys with the volunteers and workers of the organization. Moreover, imparting with the director will aid us in comprehension of the specifications, which could be in line with employee motivation and the need to put in place an incentive system for keeping them constantly motivated. Their passion to make visible changes in society will be maintained by engaging with distinguished philanthropists as well as directors of prosperous non-governmental organizations. Further, the volunteers and employees would get better understanding of the organization, its vision and mission, as well as its goals. The training program would also further emphasize the psychological issues that homeless street children encounter, or the children involving themselves in street crimes like pickpocketing and mugging.

Volunteers and employees would also be introduced to the spiritual leadership path by the training program. They will develop empathy when doing their work, improving their leadership skills hence getting knowledge of the valuable skills that could mold them into effective leaders. Additionally, they will gain knowledge of the importance of fundraising to the firm and the utilization of these funds appropriately and transparently for the benefit of street children. The training program will be subdivided into sessions, with pundits being called in the sessions to train the workers and volunteers based on the subject to be taught.

Positive and negative factors

The driving force of our project is an organization’s leadership. Effective leadership is important to the success of the projects of the organizations. Consequently, ineffective leadership breeds failure. In the same vein, communication skills are important in sourcing for information to use. Employee’s communication skills might aid in getting wind of the issues prevalent in the organization. Poor communication skills provides inadequate information to extricate from.

On the flipside, obstructions in our project could be stirred by lack of or inadequate awareness on basic psychology. Thus, we expect that volunteers have basic information about psychology so that they are in a position to better attain empathy for the psychological problems faced by children. On top of that, inability to control one’s temperament and impatience could potentially be barriers to the success of our project. The behavior of underprivileged children is mainly unpredictable because of various psychological factors (Helmig, B., Ingerfurth, S., & Pinz, A. (2014)). Therefore, a good level of calmness and competence is required to cooperate and interact with them.

Leadership Theories

Incorporating Christian teachings about the importance of providing help to the needy will be vital in ensuring that we create noteworthy impacts. These teachings will also guide the trainees in how to interact with and help street children. What does the scripture say about helping the needy? What does the scriptures say about underprivileged and homeless children? Thus, our training program will conform highly to the teachings of God and the scripture. The training will, therefore, be in line with religion (Sanders, J. O. (2017)).

Furthermore, reprove from transformational leaders would subsequently raise the trainees to higher levels of motivation and morality. This leadership type focuses on setting of acute goals, such as integrity and fairness. Incorporating these aspect in the training program will impart wholesome teachings in the trainees. Further, the training sessions will lay emphasis on the leadership skills discussed earlier, promoting the preceding styles of leadership in the volunteers thus helping them to make visible changes within the organization while inspiring underprivileged and lost children to set goals and work towards achieving the. In addition, cross-cultural leadership skills will enable trainees understand how to deal with children coming from different backgrounds (Smith, P. B., & Peterson, M. F. (2017)).

References

Helmig, B., Ingerfurth, S., & Pinz, A. (2014). Success and failure of nonprofit organizations: Theoretical foundations, empirical evidence, and future research. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 25(6), 1509-1538.

Sanders, J. O. (2017). Spiritual leadership: Principles of excellence for every believer. Moody Publishers.

Smith, P. B., & Peterson, M. F. (2017). Cross‐cultural leadership. The Blackwell Handbook of Cross‐Cultural Management, 217-235.