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55 Minute Training Series (over 600 training pages)
Training Staff to Succeed with Volunteers
If you are looking for
cost-effective ways to help your busy staff be more successful working with
volunteers, your search is over. The 55-Minute Series is a complete,
user-friendly, adaptable modular training series that includes:
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Trainer's Guide with
learning objectives, workshop outline and suggested narrative key to
transparencies/handouts, suggestions for expanded activities and
suggested bibliography and resources
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Transparencies and
participant handouts with transparencies in PowerPoint, a set of
handouts and a participant evaluation form
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Trainer/Participant
Notes includes reduced sized transparencies for note taking.
Each of the 10 modules is
written for an expandable 55-minute time frame so they are perfect for staff
meetings, quarterly in-services and retreats.
The 10 Module Training Topics
Designing Volunteer Jobs -
Sensitizes staff and volunteers to the significance of written volunteer job
design and provides tools and methods to enhance efforts in designing
creative and effective volunteer positions.
Recruitment - Explores targeted
volunteer recruitment to new audiences and a method of writing recruitment
messages so that people say, "yes!"
Interviewing and Screening -Examines the
critical need for excellent interviewing and screening skills and shares the
basic process and skills necessary to do it effectively.
Supervision identifies the basic skills
and characteristics of good volunteer supervision and explores methods and
systems for carry out the role of supervisor.
Delegation enhances the understanding of
responsible delegation and identifies the procedures and techniques for
doing it well.
Tapping into Volunteer Motivation helps
people explore their own and then volunteer motivators and how they impact
the types of jobs they like, the best form of supervision for them and the
type of recognition they like.
Volunteer Performance Review emphasizes
the mutual nature of periodic sharing of how the volunteer/agency match is
going and offers ways/forms to conduct helpful performance reviews or
self-assessments.
Recognition focuses on the value of
personal and meaningful recognition and shares formal and informal ways
volunteers can be acknowledged throughout the volunteer's involvement with
the organization.
Risk Management focuses on identifying
and evaluating potential risks in the volunteer programs and diminishing
these with preventive strategies and techniques of job design, screening,
training and supervision which address and minimize these risks.
The Board's Role in Leading and Supporting The
Volunteer Program helps a board to identify key areas where their
members need to be involved such as: formulation of an agency policy
statement on volunteer utilization, planning, policy and risk management
issues and general budgetary commitment to the program.
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