Executive Directors Responsibilities - Essay Example

The City of Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the U.S., has more than two million residents. Each person encounters different issues of life every day. Our question is how would residents of Houston be positive and productive individuals?

We have witnessed that previous disasters including hurricanes and catastrophic flooding in parts of the U.S. elevated the need to provide ready access to local government services. Other problems encountered by some were graffiti, weeded lots, and street flooding due to clogged gutters and culverts. To solve this, programs were implemented, including the 311 helpline as a way to deflect non-emergency calls away from an overburdened 911 system, and also to improve community relations and support by offering easier access to government services. The “Community Alliance for Responsibility, Empowerment, and Safety” program was developed. This program involves one employee to oversee low-level adult offenders who perform court-ordered community service. This program has cut over 50 weeded lots; filled hundreds of 30-gallon size trash bags with garbage taken from gutters and ditches; and decreased graffiti off of numerous sites of private and public property.

GOAL

• Manage organizational change;
• Strengthen capacity to develop, manage, and evaluate staff and volunteers;
• Improve the productivity of work with team leaders;
• Enhance ability to raise funds and oversee finances; and
• Foster stronger, cooperative relationships among leaders and organizations.

Hiring a new Executive Director is one that will have a great effect on society. Developing a program that would benefit the citizens of Houston is very essential. This program aims to establish a strong reputation for its ability to identify and seize opportunities to help solve tough problems.

PROGRAM COMPONENTS for FOUR SUBDIVISIONS INCLUDE:

• Spiritual motivation.
• “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man (Ecclesiastes 12:13).”
• Individual and group counseling, family counseling, relapse prevention, aftercare counseling, parenting education, and life skills training.
• Case management and other legal matters
• Nutritional education
• HIV/AIDS education, testing and support
• Mental health counseling (as appropriate)
• Job preparation training and assistance
• Recreational activities
• Housing referrals
• Academic enhancement, including tutoring.
• Skill development
• Curriculum-based support groups
• Educational presentations and literacy development
• Enrichment includes computer training, soccer teams and other sports teams, cheerleaders, dance, arts, and music programs.
• Community involvement, including presentations by community leaders and sports figures as well as volunteer activities
• and Children's services

CONCLUSION

            Applying Positive Psychology principles to the proposed programs will make people positive and productive individuals. The first component included in the program is “Spiritual Motivation,” and one of the principles of Positive Psychology is that “Only intrinsic religiosity is associated with positive mental health.” So as the Executive Director, I will make sure that each individual will know the real meaning of spirituality and its major impact in the lives of people in the society. Life begins when you know the meaning of life. People struggle to find the essence of life and spiritual motivation is one of the answers to that.

            Learned individuals flourish not only in knowledge and experience but also in wisdom. Sometimes learning depends on what perspective you see a thing, so “Enrichment and Literacy” is included in this program.

            A wise man once said, “Give 70% of your focus on your strength and 30% on your weakness because by this you can gain excellence.” This is essential if you want to succeed in your job or in every career that you take, and this is under the “Job Preparation Training and Assistance” program.

            If all of these programs were inculcated in the minds and hearts of every individual, not only in Houston, I may say that they would be positive and productive individuals. The measure of commitment is action, and your action will speak for what kind of people are you. Commitment is the enemy of resistance, and this program aims for every individual to be a committed person in society.