How my leadership and management studies contribute to the shelters mission

How my leadership and management studies contribute to the shelters mission

New Beginnings Women’s Center and Shelter is a Christian non-profit ministry that focuses on helping women and their children recover from abusive relationships. The shelter’s mission is to lead women and their children out of abusive relationships by creating freedom from an environment of abandonment, physical abuse, and hopelessness to a place of healing and freedom achieved by surrendering to Christ. My leadership and management studies contribute to the shelter’s mission in different ways. For instance, my leadership studies contribute to the mission by enhancing my servant leadership skills. Servant leadership is essential in ensuring that the needs of the women and children in the shelter are met. Therefore, I can apply my knowledge of servant leadership practices and competencies to improve my effectiveness as a servant leader. My management studies contribute to the shelter’s mission by influencing my perspective of the people we help. For example, I view children as innocent beings who do not deserve to be brought up in a family where they are exposed to abuse because that could harm their cognitive and emotional development. This view can be interpreted through Harper Lee’s story about killing a mockingbird. He portrays mockingbirds as harmless animals that should not be killed since they do not harm anyone but entertain people with their singing (Maxwell, 2022). I view children as mockingbirds because they are required to bring joy into the community and should not be harmed.

My leadership and management studies also contribute to the shelter’s mission by supporting my role as a leader and manager when working with teams in the shelter. Support requires putting aside emotions and focusing on the end goal (Cdaniel, 2018). For example, I may have to help women whose behavior I disagree with so that their children do not suffer living in an environment where they are exposed to abuse and abandonment. I also have to stay silent in all my interactions with the women and children in the shelter. Bill Taylor argues that true leaders hold dissent as an obligation. Dissent is developed from humility (Taylor, 2017). Therefore, I can apply the knowledge from my leadership and management studies to determine how to develop based on the principles of humility development proposed by John Dame and Jeffrey Gedmin. The principles include resisting failing for personal publicity, knowing what you do not know, embracing and promoting a spirit service, never underestimating the competition, being passionately curious, and listening to all ideas, even those that may seem weird(Dame & Gedmin, 2018). The shelter’s mission is to create a safe environment for everyone, hence the need to listen to the needs of the women and children under our care in order to meet this mission.

What I enjoy most about the organization’s mission

What I enjoy most about the organization’s mission is its focus on preventing abandonment and hopelessness. I enjoy seeing women and children improve emotionally when they join the shelter after a long period of hopelessness and abandonment. I also feel more encouraged to help the women and children in the shelter because I am assured that they will benefit from being in the shelter. Being part of a team aimed at creating a better society also appeals to my sense of humanity, thus making it exciting to help out at the shelter and participate in developing ideas to offer better services to the women and children in need of our services. I also feel happy when my ideas are implemented to positively impact children’s lives because I believe children do not deserve to suffer for their parent’s choices.

References

Cdaniel. (2018, August 2). Rooting for complicated heroes: It’s complicated – Santa clara law –. Santa Clara Law. Retrieved February 4, 2023, from https://law.scu.edu/sports-law/rooting-for-complicated-heroes-its-complicated/

Dame, J., & Gedmin, J. (2018, September 5). Six principles for developing humility as a leader. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved February 4, 2023, from https://hbr.org/2013/09/six-principles-for-developing

Maxwell, A. (2022, August 5). How do the moral lessons of killing a mockingbird endure today? The Conversation. Retrieved February 4, 2023, from https://theconversation.com/how-the-moral-lessons-of-to-kill-a-mockingbird-endure-today-100763

Taylor, B. (2017, April 27). True leaders believe dissent is an obligation. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved February 4, 2023, from https://hbr.org/2017/01/true-leaders-believe-dissent-is-an-obligation

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How my leadership and management studies contribute to the shelters mission

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