To reframe volunteer engagement and impact, we first need listeners who become supporters who then become advocates for our vision. Our reputation needs to reflect our self-identity as leaders of volunteers.
Unlike HR folks, who contend with active staff, volunteer managers are tethered to every volunteer, whether they are actively volunteering or they’re rotating in the periphery.
We, leaders of volunteers (#LoVols) have shared experiences, shared hopes, shared challenges and a shared future. We are a family, …
The visionary approach is to offer the impact of volunteer involvement and remove the objections to it.
Volunteers are wonderful people who develop into effective volunteers through strategic investment. That’s what #LoVols do all day.
We may appear to be socializing but we are establishing a welcoming and meaningful atmosphere through the hard work of making it look effortless so volunteers are engaged and add value
Why is the work #LoVols do so misunderstood? Let’s explain it.
If we make volunteers seem like magic faeries that just rise from the garden and buzz on over to do good work, we diminish the effort they bring and the work we do to develop and ready them.
Passive-aggressive comments are meant to lure you onto an emotional roller coaster. Don’t get on this ride.
“So, you’re a volunteer manager; what do you do, exactly?” We’ve all been asked the question and then that moment …
