Decision Making
Oakwood University LETC Thanksgiving Mission Trip
Define Decison Making: access or process of making decisions and
Challenges in Decsion Making:
- Challenges we had from decision Making were in lack communication. Leaders are in charge of daily tasks and sometimes one leader will make a decision without communicating it to other leaders. This is very challenging because a student can ask for something from one leader and the leader can say yes but didn't discuss it with the other leaders who both could say no. This shows disunity in leadership and allows students to find cracks in the program.
Problems Arise from deferring decison making:
-The expectations from the mission trip was to canvass Sunday through Sunday for a week . Through out the week the students were exhausted from canvassing and ending the day at a church members house to eat. These decisions that we as leaders made to eat at someone's house every night didn't allow students to get back to the conference were we stayed on time . Since w came back late every night curfew had to be pushed back which meant staying up later and dragging or feet the next day. At the end of the week we paid for it because after Sabbath students petition to not canvass. The students enjoyed the program but felt since their free time was taken away they have a right to relax and get to school early. As leaders we decided to let them go early to avoid the risk of leaving the mission unhappy and showing students we respect their education and time. All students have potential of leadership and didn't want to risk the relationship had we did we would loose all 15 students.
