This article was originally published on tobijohnson.com. Why You Need to Reduce Cognitive Bias in Your Meetings Have you ever been in a volunteer or board meeting where one person suggests a course of action and everyone just goes with it, without really questioning the viability of the solution? Conversely, have you ever been in a [...]
The 7 Deadly Sins of Online Volunteer Training If you lead volunteers, it’s likely you’ll be called upon to design and deliver presentations as part of your online volunteer training or orientations. I’ve been participating in and presenting webinars for about a decade now and I’m sad to say, we’ve still got some work to [...]
4 Practical Ways to Strengthen Your Volunteer Training for Nonprofits When designing volunteer training for nonprofits, your biggest challenge may be how to create a complete program that doesn’t scare volunteers away. Often, organizations have daunting amounts of information volunteers must learn in order to perform with confidence. Programs must be assured that volunteers [...]
4 Simple Steps to Win More Funding for Volunteers Even if you’ve been turned down in the past, you can still succeed at generating more volunteer funding for your program efforts. But, it may take a smarter approach and a fresh point of view to pull it off. The good news is that we’ve got [...]
4 Best Practices to Boost Every Volunteer Program Last week, we hosted a live masterclass on best practices in volunteer management. We featured 3 of our very own VolunteerPro members who shared how they tackle and overcome their biggest challenges. They had tons of actionable wisdom to share, so we’re breaking down the key takeaways [...]
How To Actually Shift Your Nonprofit's Volunteer Culture You Can Keep Your Violins The calling to be a volunteer manager is quite abstract. This is mostly because Volunteer Management isn’t recognized as a professional career path, leaders of volunteers usually don’t control their own budget dollars, and the position is often seen as entry-level. The [...]
3 Proven Volunteer Program Development Models There are a few different ways of looking at volunteer program development. Today we will look at three models: The Volunteer Lifecycle Levels of Volunteer Engagement Volunteers as Community Assets All perspectives may be valid depending on the management decisions you are trying to make, the problems you [...]
How To Accelerate True Change In Your Volunteer Program What's Your "Delta?" What’s your volunteer program “delta”? No, not the alluvial deposits at the mouth of a river. Rather, as you build a volunteer program strategic plan, what is the change you hope to bring about? Do you know? If you don’t know [...]
