Capstone Summary
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Benchmark – Capstone Executive Summary Report and Leadership Portfolio
This assignment will consist of two parts: an executive summary of the completed capstone project, as well as a leadership portfolio.
Executive Summary
Write a 500-750-word executive summary of the capstone project. Include your approach to the capstone project, including design, purpose, goals, and results of your pre- and post-assessment evaluations. The executive summary should be the first entry in your Leadership Portfolio.
Leadership Portfolio
The portfolio should contain components from at least four previous courses in the Master of Science in Leadership program, such as MGT-605, LDR-600, LDR-630, LDR-640, LDR-612, or LDR-615. Each of the four components should include a 250-500-word summary of how you approached the assignment, the lessons you learned from completing your work, and how these lessons helped shape you as a leader.
Please note that it is not required to submit the four course artifacts you are referencing; a well-written synopsis that clearly identifies the course and includes the required elements will be sufficient for the purposes of this portfolio. You may also include an artifact that is not course-related, but may be an additional level of support for the portfolio.
Conclude the portfolio with a brief personal call to action. In 250-500 words, describe your professional development plan after you graduate. How will you continue to grow as a leader? Also, identify specific resources, such as professional organizations, mentors, and professional development opportunities that will help you accomplish your plan.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
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CAPSTONE PROJECT 1
CAPSTONE PROJECT 5
Capstone Project- Needs Analysis
LDR-655
August 14th 2020
QUESTION-
Capstone Project Needs Analysis
Before finalizing your capstone project, it is important to make sure that your vision and goals align with current needs of the organization. Research needs analysis tools and templates and select the most appropriate one based on the goal of your capstone. Conduct the needs analysis and write a 500-750-word paper that includes the following:
1. The intended scope and purpose of your capstone project.
2. A description of the needs analysis tool/template you chose, and a brief rationale for why it is the most appropriate.
3. A summary of your findings from the needs analysis.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
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Scope and Purpose
This capstone project aims to enhance leadership skills among the workers and volunteers to ensure that they can address issues associated with less-fortunate children in society regardless of whether they have any relationship with the organization or not. The project will promote training among employees and workers as a means of enlightening them about he needs of the organization including how to review teachers who are responsible for teaching underprivileged children. Also, this project will enable the team members to seek support effectively from various donors to boost the organizational goals and objectives. According to this organization, all children are special and child-help plays a vital role in ensuring that every child lives up to the societal standards regardless of their financial backgrounds or social classes.
Need Analysis Tool
The Non-governmental Organization dispenses its operations effectively and safely for the children. Therefore, before recruiting any member to the organization, a comprehensive training is usually conducted to ensure that all employees work as per organizational expectations. Various types of need analysis are available with each suiting every worker in their contexts of operations (Greenberg, n.d.). Also, the organization applies various needs assessment approaches for the employees to ascertain their capabilities and skills such as empathy that will enable them thrive in the organization. For example, the organization applies assessment techniques like observation, filling questionnaires, interviews, report studies, and literature review to examine the knowledge of every potential worker concerning the organizational goals and objectives (HR-Guide.com, n.d.). Some questions that need assessment seek to answer include the following:
What is needed from the employees in the organization?
Why is that thing needed?
What associations require or need them?
Any related costs to make sure those needs at met?
What are the personal goals of every employee in the program?
Are those goals aligned with the organizational ones for the charity?
Besides these needs that the organization seek to evaluate, any rising need in the organization would be comprehended by performing a performance appraisal. The most apt tools that can enable the organization to serve this purpose of evaluating the ability of its employees to make it achieve its goals are interviewing and filling questionnaires (HR-Guide.com, n.d.). Upon assessment of employees capabilities, the organization can then plan for an extensive training program guided by its human resource principles.
Summary
The needs analysis tool aimed to assess how the needs of workers and employees has enabled the organization to determine the employees ability to deliver its goals and objectives. Every organization seek to recruit employees based on organizational goals and examining the potential ones is one key step towards that direction. Therefore, the training system endeavors to promote leadership skills among the employees in the context of providing child-care fairly among all children both in and out of the organization. Despite complexity in handling underprivileged children, the employees and volunteers should work towards enabling an environment for themselves and the organization to provide services required by those children. For example, showing empathy is one key skill that all workers and employees should have. Lack of this gift implies that the workers would not be interested to solve childrens needs and they would probably overlook several concerns that would need their attention. Also, the training system for teachers is a key aspect that determines the quality of services in child-care context. Therefore, needs assessment will ensure that all employees and volunteers in an organization can undertake an indisputable review of that system and recommend ways in which those systems can be improved.
References
Greenberg, C. (n.d.). How to Conduct a Training Needs Analysis. Retrieved from https://www.xperthr.com/how-to/how-to-conduct-a-training-needs-analysis/6716/
HR-Guide.com. (n.d.). Needs Analysis: How to determine training needs. Retrieved from https://hr-guide.com/data/G510.htm Organizational Approval
Now that you have identified the organization at which your capstone project will occur, secure formal approval using the “Capstone Project Approval Form.” Submit this document to your instructor.
You are not required to submit this to LopesWrite.
Capstone Project Approval Form
Please complete the following required information.
Student Name:
Date: August 13, 2020
Organization: Childhelp
Address: 4350 E Camelback Rd, Phoenix. AZ 85018, USA
Organizational Support Representative: Daphne Young
Telephone: (480) 922-8212
E-mail: www.childhelp.org/hotline
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Capstone Project Overview
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Capstone Project Overview
After conducting the needs assessment, you should have a better idea of how your capstone project will serve the organization you have chosen. In this assignment, you will formalize your project in a 750-1,000-word paper that includes the following:
1. A brief description of the scope and purpose identified in the needs analysis.
2. An outline of your action plan.
3. Identification of any unique organizational factors, including resources and barriers that could impact your project.
4. Leadership theories and concepts that you will apply as part of your capstone.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to theLopesWrite Technical Support articlesfor assistance.
Scope and Purpose
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 organizations 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 organizations 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. Employees 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 ones 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). Crosscultural leadership.The Blackwell Handbook of CrossCultural Management, 217-235. 3
LDR 655
August 28, 2020
Survey/Evaluation Tool
Based on your needs analysis and your capstone preparation, design a survey you can use to conduct a pre- and post-assessment for your capstone. The survey should include success indicators to help you collect data about the effectiveness of the project.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to theLopesWrite Technical Support articlesfor assistance.
VOLUNTEER FEEDBACK SURVEY
1) Your organization takes care of your needs.
a) Firmly Oppose
b) Oppose
c) Neither assent or oppose
d) Assent
e) Strongly assent
2) What do you have to say about the organizational way of creating change?
3) Rate your satisfaction concerning ways in which the organization helps the unprivileged children.
a. Very much Satisfied
b. Satisfied
c. Somewhat Satisfied
d. No satisfaction at all
4) How has the volunteer work influenced you?
a. Maximum Influence
b. Standard Influence
c. No influence at all
5) Before joining this organization, you went through some training sessions. Rate the convenience of those sessions.
a. Very convenient
b. A bit convenient
c. Not convenient at all
6) Were those training sessions of any value?
a. Not valuable at all
b. Not valuable
c. Not sure
d. Valuable
e. Very valuable
7) How well do you get along with your colleagues within the organization?
a. Too easy
b. A bit easy
c. Quite Hard
d. Hard
e. Too hard
8) Rate the efficiency of the top management.
a. Not efficient at all
b. Not efficient
c. Not sure
d. Efficient
e. Very efficient
9) How contented or discontented are you with your volunteer work in this organization?
a. Extremely discontented
b. Discontented
c. Not sure
d. Contented
e. Extremely contented
10) If presented with an opportunity to serve as a volunteer in this organization, will you take the chance?
a. Yes
b. Not sure
c. No
11) Which one works for you between leading a team and being a team member?
a) Being a team leader
b) Being a member
12) Do you have any doubts on your abilities to come out successful?
a) Yes
b) Not sure
c) No
13) Do you find value in communicating with your colleagues?
a) Yes
b) No
c) No value at all
14) How often do you listen to feedback and ask questions about it?
a) Always
b) Sometimes
15) How comfortable are you with the direction of the organizations long-term objectives?
a) Not comfortable at all
b) Not Comfortable
c) Somewhat comfortable
d) Comfortable
e) Very comfortable
16) Are you active during discussions?
a) Yes
b) No
17) Are there issues that keeps you from accomplishing your tasks? If yes, state.
a) Yes
b) No
18) Are religious teachings useful to you when performing your tasks?
a) Yes
b) No
19) Do you have any recommendations? If yes, share them.
References
Leadership Self-Assessment Questionnaire. (2015, Oct 15). Retrieved from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/survlead.html
Mind Tools . (n.d.). How Good Are Your Leadership Skills? Retrieved from https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_50.htm
Survey Monkey . (n.d.). Volunteer Feedback Survey Template. Retrieved from https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/volunteer-feedback-survey-template/?ut_source1=mp&ut_source2=non_profit_survey_templates
