Teamwork Makes the Dream Work - How to Lead Volunteers and Reduce Your Stress
With declining national volunteer rates and healthy competition for the attention of supporters, top notch leadership skills are crucial to retaining qualified volunteers. Old school, top-down supervisory styles simply aren't working anymore. Volunteers want to be equal partners in mission delivery.
At the same time, they need to do so within the limits of your organization’s policies. With the right leadership approaches, applied at the right time, you can keep both sides happy, all while reducing your own anxiety and stress. We’ll show you how.
In this lively 90-minute webinar, we’ll share practical tactics and tools to help you foster a motivated volunteer workforce where collaborative results are achieved and volunteer talents can truly shine. Your presenter, Tobi Johnson, has supervised countless nonprofit volunteers and professional staff and has built many successful volunteer programs from the ground up. She will share tip sheets and templates, developed from 30 years experience in the field, to help you apply your new leadership skills immediately.
You’ll learn:
- How to promote a pro-volunteer climate that fosters excellence
- How to accommodate the needs of volunteers from different generations
- How to write motivational, not bureaucratic, volunteer position descriptions
- How to match individual volunteers with the roles that will inspire them
- How to delegate tasks to volunteers using a simple step-by-step process
- How to build a strong sense of volunteer teamwork and accountability
- How to coach volunteers who don’t follow through and get them back on track
- How to fire a volunteer with dignity, if it simply doesn’t work out
