Never Forget, You Have a Hand in This
We invest in people. But we don’t often measure our investment’s growth. We’re too overwhelmed with daily work to stop and take stock of our positive influence on volunteers and our missions.
Tag Archives: #lovols
#LoVols, You Are Growing Branches
Experiential learning teaches us to apply knowledge from doing. It forces us to experiment until we get things right.
Happy Holidays, LoVols
-Meridian
Yay, Another Holiday Card From a NonProfit!
Some of the cards I received included timely messages about the organization’s work. I find that more engaging than a simple signature. But a message to me as an active volunteer when I’m not, is tone-deaf.
Dealing with Regrets: Should We Let Go or Is There Another Way?
Let those tucked away regrets motivate you to be constructive so they don’t turn into full-on guilt. Regrets can either keep us paralyzed by guilt or they can motivate us to grow by making us constructive.
Hey #LoVols Reputation, Meet Our Self-Identity
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.
#LoVols, Beware: It’s Zombification Season
Being zombified means through stressors, you’ve lost your vitality, your human essence. You’ve lost you.
Stock Pictures or the LoVols Picture on Volunteer Websites?
Think about a potential volunteer’s questions when navigating your site. “Who is the first person I will meet? Who will train me, direct me, encourage me, coach me, teach me what I need to know to succeed? Who will be there for me when I have an issue?”
Moving from O2V to V2V to V2O
Nonprofits no longer have the monopoly on solving issues. What can business teach us about our current volunteering model?
When All You See is Stress
I think we, volunteer managers tend to deny our negative feelings because we’re always “on.” We’re looked at as cheerful people with can-do attitudes and we don’t think we can have bad days. But we can. Because we’re human and our human-ness is what makes us so darned effective.
