The Volunteer Periphery is Expanding
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.
Category Archives: explaining volunteer management
Finding One Another is Our Future
We, leaders of volunteers (#LoVols) have shared experiences, shared hopes, shared challenges and a shared future. We are a family, …
#LoVols, Our Secret Sauce
The visionary approach is to offer the impact of volunteer involvement and remove the objections to it.
VIP-volunteer investment process free download
Volunteers are wonderful people who develop into effective volunteers through strategic investment. That’s what #LoVols do all day.
What do #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
#LoVols, This Needs to Change Now
Why is the work #LoVols do so misunderstood? Let’s explain it.
Volunteer Managers, We Have the Picture; We Just Need the Frame
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.
5 Ways to Stop The Ride Going Nowhere
Passive-aggressive comments are meant to lure you onto an emotional roller coaster. Don’t get on this ride.
Five Words that Might Untangle Volunteer Management
“So, you’re a volunteer manager; what do you do, exactly?” We’ve all been asked the question and then that moment …
Volunteer Manager Persuasion Techniques
Do you whip out a clever persuasion technique every time you want someone to acknowledge that volunteers don’t sit around …
