Is your association struggling to recruit volunteers? Every action you take influences your members decision to volunteer, become active, stay engaged and return again next year. Volunteer Victories come to those who ask, delegate, and appreciate. Plan for your personal volunteer victory in this interactive session.
Define what it means to be an effective volunteer and board member
Identify how to retain volunteers by delegating tasks that are meaningful and contribute
Create customized ongoing appreciation plans that will grow your volunteer bases for year to come
4. Intentions for the Session
Define what it means to be an effective volunteer
board member
Identify how to retain volunteers by delegating tasks
that are meaningful and contribute
Create customized ongoing appreciation plans that
will grow your volunteer bases for years to come
5. Technology Zone:
Twitter @hduckworth
Text 503 887 4112
Use the chat box
www.Facebook/leadershipsolutionsinternational
www.leadershipsolutionsintl.com
Use this as a place to learn and grow.
6. Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP
Speaker, Trainer & Volunteer:
• Travel Portland - US Figure Skating
Championships
• Inaugural Lance Armstrong Livestrong
Ride
• Meeting Professionals International
• President National Speakers Association
• Chair, Component Relations American
Society for Association Executives
• Leadership Trainer, Green Meetings
Industry Council
@hduckworth
13. What skills should go on my
volunteer job description?
Personal Skills Shared Board Skills
Leadership Association Experience
Strategic Thinking Diversity – reflects
membership
Communication
Global Mindset (if applicable)
Influence
Financial Expertise
Loyalty Association Experience
Business Acumen Governance
Financial Skills Strategic Planning
18. Why use Volunteers?
Greater impact to your vision mission
Save organization time
Increase organizations revenues
19. Volunteer vs. Employee
It’s more than the difference between simply a pay check and no pay check.
Are you teaching your volunteers this when they work with other
volunteers?
@hduckworth
20. How many people do we need?
How do we Recruit Volunteers?
Honest
How much time does it really take?
What times of the year are busy on this committee?
Authentic
Job Description
Specific Start Date/time
Specific End Date /time
Delegation
Let them own it
Follow Up
Appreciation
@hduckworth
24. Remember with
volunteers they have a
choice and 100’s of
other organizations
would love to have the
same people
With volunteers it is all
personal and passion
@hduckworth
25. Recruitment Ideas:
Volunteer Fair
Virtual Volunteerism
Job board
Volunteer Manager
Use of President Elect, to recruit to their team
Track skills of your members
Offer Leadership Training
Tell your own Testimonials about why and how you
volunteer (web, newsletter, in person)
30. Secrets to Retain Volunteers?
Give them ownership
Give them something meaningful to do
Demonstrate for them how what they do makes a
difference to the organization
Make it easy to volunteer
Keep task sizes manageable
Have regular committee meetings
32. 7 Tips on Successful Volunteerism
Work on a cause that means something to you
Consider sills you have to offer
Do you want to learn something new
Combine goals
Don’t over commit
Think family
I never thought of that vs. that will never work
36. No handout?
All the links and references for each
of the case studies and more can be
www.hollyduckworth.com/tsae
@hduckworth
37. Intentions for the Session
Define what it means to be an effective volunteer
board member
Identify how to retain volunteers by delegating tasks
that are meaningful and contribute
Create customized ongoing appreciation plans that
will grow your volunteer bases for years to come
39. CTRL+ALT+Delete:
How to Reboot
your Association for Success
Available Early
2013
Releasing control in your association, Looking at alternate strategies &
Deleting all that no longer serves your vision to become more efficient and
effective
Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP
Leadership is the best personal and profesional giftyoucangivetoyourself.Its is alsooften a road withmany twists and turnsalong the way.My leadership/volunteerismjourney
Volunteerismcan at times make people go crazy tomanyjobsto do.No cleardefinedjobdescriptionsNo accountabilityNow is the timeto re-imaginewhat it meansto be a volunteer and what it meansto be a coordinatorofvolunteers – be that as a meeting professional and/or association executive
Overviewof session description
This session wasconceptualized as waytoutilizetechnology in a new way. Youwill note the session is being broadcast via Skype – todemonstrate a new wayofdeliveringcontentto an audienceAs yourspeaker/host I inviteyoutousetechnology
Work on your business Work in your business
Volunteering is like the dating game.Don’t sell goods you don’t have. They will find out eventualTruth in advertising
Shout ‘em out
Have you created a volunteer atmosphere that is warm and inviting?
I started to use the term CTRL+ALT+Delete: with a client who was working with a new team. She was totally distraught to give up her “older” higher performing team. Today is about doing one thing to reboot your association for success Apple person – command Q
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You are the ones that do this yourself with your career choicesYou are the ones who inspire others to do this with the relationships you build.