Association chapters need volunteers. That's a given. Getting those volunteers is not so much a given. This webinar walks through how to build volunteer muscle in your chapter.
The document discusses a chapter leaders webinar about defining a chapter's value proposition. It lists the key aspects of value as education, networking, affirmation, and significance. Members seek to learn new skills, build connections, find opportunities and partners, gain recognition for their expertise, and make an impact. The webinar advises chapters to bring people together around their members' top issues, leverage their strengths, and complement programming to build a sustainable organization.
This document provides a framework for chapter leaders to build member engagement in their organizations. It outlines four levels of engagement - consuming, promoting, creating, and serving/governing. The webinar guides leaders to create a welcoming environment by connecting with members on a personal level using questions about people, activities, and available resources. Leaders are encouraged to identify easy entry points for involvement to actively engage members.
Volunteerism has changed and its rocking the association world. Explore the questions, the trends, and the how-to's for engaging members in volunteering for your association.
The presentation focuses on how volunteerism in association has changed and strategies we can use in associations to attract today's busy volunteer. Part of the YourMembership.com Thought Leader Series.
Sharing 6 attributes of mutually beneficial volunteering program, 6 drivers for volunteer satisfaction and results of the ASAE Foundation volunteer research plus association examples.
This document discusses building engagement through volunteerism. It notes that volunteers today want flexibility and short term opportunities that allow them to contribute their skills. Associations need to offer a variety of volunteer roles and embrace technologies that enable micro-volunteering. Conducting surveys of members and volunteers can provide insights into how to structure opportunities to attract and retain participants. The focus should be on outcomes rather than direction, and engaging members as citizens of the organization.
How to Make Your Association's Private Online Community Your Most Valuable Me...Socious
Learn how to utilize the assets that your organization has (members, staff, and information) and make your online member community one of your most valuable member benefits to improve recruitment, retention, and non-dues revenue.
The document discusses a chapter leaders webinar about defining a chapter's value proposition. It lists the key aspects of value as education, networking, affirmation, and significance. Members seek to learn new skills, build connections, find opportunities and partners, gain recognition for their expertise, and make an impact. The webinar advises chapters to bring people together around their members' top issues, leverage their strengths, and complement programming to build a sustainable organization.
This document provides a framework for chapter leaders to build member engagement in their organizations. It outlines four levels of engagement - consuming, promoting, creating, and serving/governing. The webinar guides leaders to create a welcoming environment by connecting with members on a personal level using questions about people, activities, and available resources. Leaders are encouraged to identify easy entry points for involvement to actively engage members.
Volunteerism has changed and its rocking the association world. Explore the questions, the trends, and the how-to's for engaging members in volunteering for your association.
The presentation focuses on how volunteerism in association has changed and strategies we can use in associations to attract today's busy volunteer. Part of the YourMembership.com Thought Leader Series.
Sharing 6 attributes of mutually beneficial volunteering program, 6 drivers for volunteer satisfaction and results of the ASAE Foundation volunteer research plus association examples.
This document discusses building engagement through volunteerism. It notes that volunteers today want flexibility and short term opportunities that allow them to contribute their skills. Associations need to offer a variety of volunteer roles and embrace technologies that enable micro-volunteering. Conducting surveys of members and volunteers can provide insights into how to structure opportunities to attract and retain participants. The focus should be on outcomes rather than direction, and engaging members as citizens of the organization.
How to Make Your Association's Private Online Community Your Most Valuable Me...Socious
Learn how to utilize the assets that your organization has (members, staff, and information) and make your online member community one of your most valuable member benefits to improve recruitment, retention, and non-dues revenue.
This document discusses mutually effective volunteering and the difference between ad-hoc and micro volunteering. It notes that engagement drives retention for membership organizations. Surveys show that membership loyalty and engagement of untraditional volunteers are important issues for organizations. The document provides strategies for creating a volunteer lifecycle that eases people in and supports collaboration, including introducing accessible micro volunteering opportunities.
This document provides strategies for creating an exceptional member experience for an organization. It discusses talking about membership in terms of outcomes members receive, getting members involved from day one, building an adhocracy, using web tools to engage members, listening to members through surveys and calls, trying new things constantly, and activating word-of-mouth sharing. Specific tactics described include personal outreach, online collaboration tools, evaluating events, polling members, discussing ideas, blogging, and social media sharing. The overall goal is to better connect members and get them involved through various engagement strategies.
Using the Chapter Dashboard, a look at assessing chapters to create success. Includes key trends for chapters to be aware of as well as a look at creating an adhocracy for more volunteer involvement.
This document discusses tips for leading distributed teams. It emphasizes establishing clear expectations about goals, schedules, and responsibilities. Leaders should provide explicit instructions and establish team norms, policies and procedures. Regular communication is important through embracing technology like video conferencing and using open-ended questions. Creating rhythms with standard check-ins helps teams stay engaged. Harnessing technology like file sharing and screen sharing tools can also help virtual teams collaborate effectively. Face-to-face meetings, when possible, are valuable for building trust and relationships within distributed teams.
MSCSA President Kayley Schoonmaker
MSCSA Treasurer Matt Rubel
Whether you have one person on your student senate or twenty people, it is always good to have some knowledge about successful recruitment. Once we have them through the door, we need to keep them there. How do we retain our members? Join us as we share best practices!
Are you the leader of volunteer engagement that your organization needs you to be? Join your peers to meet, explore the qualities and skills of a good leader, and share experiences around leading the strategy and implementation of engaging volunteers to become that leader.
KAVCO VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP MODULE TWO RETENTIONConnie Piggott
The Volunteer Leadership Training Series is a peer-to-peer program researched, complied and created through an initiative of KAVCO members. This series of training is focused on sharing the vital elements of leading volunteers.
This document discusses volunteer management and motivation. It provides a 5-step process for volunteer management: 1) create a plan using a logic model, 2) recruit and screen volunteers, 3) orient and train volunteers, 4) supervise and recognize volunteers, and 5) evaluate the program. It also discusses common motivators for volunteering such as praise, accomplishment, affiliation, and influence. Recognition is important for retaining volunteers by matching it to their motivations.
What do you do when it's time to ask a volunteer to leave your organization? This webinar will give you the tools to address challenges around difficult volunteers, including volunteers aging in place and entrenched volunteers. You'll also learn how to minimize these situations in the future. Suggestions for determining when a volunteer should be terminated, and making it easier on you, other volunteers, and staff will be presented. The role that risk management plays in these decisions will also be included.
Nonprofit Insights: Building a Future-Friendly Nonprofit BoardVolunteerMatch
Your board plays a critical role in overseeing your organization's mission, finances and strategic direction. So it's equally critical that these board members are supportive of the changes in tools and practices necessary to help your organization stay relevant and viable in today's rapidly changing world.
For the March 2014 Nonprofit Insights webinar hosted by VolunteerMatch focused on how to cultivate, engage and retain great board members that are "future-friendly." Jenifer Holland, Director of Consulting at BoardSource, shared best practices and strategies for finding and engaging the best board members for your organization. We were also joined by Shayla Price, Executive Director for the National Search Dog Alliance, who shared her first-hand experience working with boards from the nonprofit side, as well as serving as a board member herself.
Wondering how to build a board that will support your organization as it moves forward into the future? This webinar will provide ideas and strategies so you'll never need to "fight" your board for change again.
The document discusses retention and recruitment of volunteers. It emphasizes the importance of retention by outlining costs of high turnover. Reasons people leave include time demands and unclear expectations, while reasons they stay are feeling useful and valued. Best practices for retention involve making volunteers feel welcome through orientation, connected to the role and team, useful in their tasks, and valued through recognition. Recruitment should involve screening for fit and clear expectations to set volunteers up for success and retention from the start.
The document discusses the roles of networking, mentoring, and sponsoring in career advancement. It begins with speakers introducing the topic and asking participants to share what words come to mind related to networking, mentoring, or sponsorship. It then discusses the benefits of formal and informal networking. A key point made is that formal networking provides information, builds relationships, and offers career opportunities, while informal networking provides moral support. It also discusses the differences between mentoring and sponsoring, emphasizing that sponsors are more influential and directly advocate for one's career, while mentors provide advice and support. The document stresses the importance of finding sponsors to advance one's career.
Engaging skills based volunteers in your organization can be both exciting and scary.
Use these quick tips to prepare your organization for success and to create a good experience for both paid and volunteer staff!
Mentoring moments creating opportunities for successakgraner
Each of us bring unique experiences and abilities to a project and being aware of our strengths and weaknesses give each of us the ability to teach and learn from those around us.How many times have you heard someone say I would be happy to teach or share with people but I don't have time.
In this talk Amber Graner shares her moments on mentorship ideas. How to find those sharing and learning moments in every day conversation as well as being aware of buzz words used in a conversation that can generate thoseopportunities. Find out some of the unusual places Amber has both gained and shared knowledge at and how you can increase your mentoring opportunities.
The document discusses the differences between mentors and sponsors and how having both can help women advance their careers. Mentors provide guidance and advice, while sponsors actively advocate for their mentees and help them get promotions. Research shows women with mentors are more likely to get promotions. The document provides tips for finding sponsors, such as building on mentoring relationships. It recommends organizations formalize sponsor programs, engage men in promoting diversity, and make gender diversity a top priority to help women overcome barriers to leadership roles.
VolunteerMatch Best Practices for Recruiting OnlineVolunteerMatch
This document provides an agenda and overview for a webinar on best practices for recruiting volunteers online. The webinar will discuss making the case for online volunteer recruiting, best practices for titles, descriptions, and calls to action, and review real examples. It recommends keeping descriptions brief, simple, impactful, and providing direction. Resources mentioned include the VolunteerMatch learning center and community for additional help.
Understanding Soft Risk in Volunteer EngagementVolunteerMatch
Volunteer engagement often focuses on hard risks: accidents, past bad behavior, or access to confidential information. While these risks are real we often overlook the soft risks that also jeopardize the success and sustainability of volunteer engagement. This session will look at the soft risks associated with engaging volunteers including: “word of mouth” reputation, interactions on social media, lack of training being responsible for inaccurate information being given out, and how failing to screen for characteristics or “fit” can open volunteers, the volunteer engagement program, and the organization up to risk. Attendees will learn to identify these soft risks in their own program through examples, modeled interactions, & learnings from the HR and for-profit sectors, and develop a plan to mitigate the effects on their organization. Attendees will leave with a Soft Risk worksheet as well as action plan for addressing soft risk in recruiting, screening and training volunteers.
Interviewing each prospective volunteer can seem overwhelming, but it's one of the best ways to ensure that the volunteers you recruit are the volunteers you need. This webinar introduces a variety of question types used in volunteer interviews and offers strategies for honing your interview skills. Materials will be provided to help you implement this process in your organization, as well as a training syllabus so you can learn how to recruit and train a volunteer staff to assist with prospective volunteer interviews.
Writing Accurate and Useful Position DescriptionsVolunteerMatch
The document provides information about an upcoming webinar on writing accurate and useful position descriptions, including the agenda, components of position descriptions, and tips for developing them. The webinar will cover getting started, involving others, responsibilities, skills, and using descriptions for recruitment, training, and retention.
Four associations share how they use technology and new volunteer models to drive member volunteering. American Association of Diabetes Educators, Project Management Institute, NCURA, Mariner Management. ASAE MM&C Conference
How do recapture the spirit of volunteerism in your association? The slide deck shares finding and key questions for association professionals based on the white paper The Mission Driven Volunteer. Session from #Ideas14, ASAE Great Ideas.
This document discusses mutually effective volunteering and the difference between ad-hoc and micro volunteering. It notes that engagement drives retention for membership organizations. Surveys show that membership loyalty and engagement of untraditional volunteers are important issues for organizations. The document provides strategies for creating a volunteer lifecycle that eases people in and supports collaboration, including introducing accessible micro volunteering opportunities.
This document provides strategies for creating an exceptional member experience for an organization. It discusses talking about membership in terms of outcomes members receive, getting members involved from day one, building an adhocracy, using web tools to engage members, listening to members through surveys and calls, trying new things constantly, and activating word-of-mouth sharing. Specific tactics described include personal outreach, online collaboration tools, evaluating events, polling members, discussing ideas, blogging, and social media sharing. The overall goal is to better connect members and get them involved through various engagement strategies.
Using the Chapter Dashboard, a look at assessing chapters to create success. Includes key trends for chapters to be aware of as well as a look at creating an adhocracy for more volunteer involvement.
This document discusses tips for leading distributed teams. It emphasizes establishing clear expectations about goals, schedules, and responsibilities. Leaders should provide explicit instructions and establish team norms, policies and procedures. Regular communication is important through embracing technology like video conferencing and using open-ended questions. Creating rhythms with standard check-ins helps teams stay engaged. Harnessing technology like file sharing and screen sharing tools can also help virtual teams collaborate effectively. Face-to-face meetings, when possible, are valuable for building trust and relationships within distributed teams.
MSCSA President Kayley Schoonmaker
MSCSA Treasurer Matt Rubel
Whether you have one person on your student senate or twenty people, it is always good to have some knowledge about successful recruitment. Once we have them through the door, we need to keep them there. How do we retain our members? Join us as we share best practices!
Are you the leader of volunteer engagement that your organization needs you to be? Join your peers to meet, explore the qualities and skills of a good leader, and share experiences around leading the strategy and implementation of engaging volunteers to become that leader.
KAVCO VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP MODULE TWO RETENTIONConnie Piggott
The Volunteer Leadership Training Series is a peer-to-peer program researched, complied and created through an initiative of KAVCO members. This series of training is focused on sharing the vital elements of leading volunteers.
This document discusses volunteer management and motivation. It provides a 5-step process for volunteer management: 1) create a plan using a logic model, 2) recruit and screen volunteers, 3) orient and train volunteers, 4) supervise and recognize volunteers, and 5) evaluate the program. It also discusses common motivators for volunteering such as praise, accomplishment, affiliation, and influence. Recognition is important for retaining volunteers by matching it to their motivations.
What do you do when it's time to ask a volunteer to leave your organization? This webinar will give you the tools to address challenges around difficult volunteers, including volunteers aging in place and entrenched volunteers. You'll also learn how to minimize these situations in the future. Suggestions for determining when a volunteer should be terminated, and making it easier on you, other volunteers, and staff will be presented. The role that risk management plays in these decisions will also be included.
Nonprofit Insights: Building a Future-Friendly Nonprofit BoardVolunteerMatch
Your board plays a critical role in overseeing your organization's mission, finances and strategic direction. So it's equally critical that these board members are supportive of the changes in tools and practices necessary to help your organization stay relevant and viable in today's rapidly changing world.
For the March 2014 Nonprofit Insights webinar hosted by VolunteerMatch focused on how to cultivate, engage and retain great board members that are "future-friendly." Jenifer Holland, Director of Consulting at BoardSource, shared best practices and strategies for finding and engaging the best board members for your organization. We were also joined by Shayla Price, Executive Director for the National Search Dog Alliance, who shared her first-hand experience working with boards from the nonprofit side, as well as serving as a board member herself.
Wondering how to build a board that will support your organization as it moves forward into the future? This webinar will provide ideas and strategies so you'll never need to "fight" your board for change again.
The document discusses retention and recruitment of volunteers. It emphasizes the importance of retention by outlining costs of high turnover. Reasons people leave include time demands and unclear expectations, while reasons they stay are feeling useful and valued. Best practices for retention involve making volunteers feel welcome through orientation, connected to the role and team, useful in their tasks, and valued through recognition. Recruitment should involve screening for fit and clear expectations to set volunteers up for success and retention from the start.
The document discusses the roles of networking, mentoring, and sponsoring in career advancement. It begins with speakers introducing the topic and asking participants to share what words come to mind related to networking, mentoring, or sponsorship. It then discusses the benefits of formal and informal networking. A key point made is that formal networking provides information, builds relationships, and offers career opportunities, while informal networking provides moral support. It also discusses the differences between mentoring and sponsoring, emphasizing that sponsors are more influential and directly advocate for one's career, while mentors provide advice and support. The document stresses the importance of finding sponsors to advance one's career.
Engaging skills based volunteers in your organization can be both exciting and scary.
Use these quick tips to prepare your organization for success and to create a good experience for both paid and volunteer staff!
Mentoring moments creating opportunities for successakgraner
Each of us bring unique experiences and abilities to a project and being aware of our strengths and weaknesses give each of us the ability to teach and learn from those around us.How many times have you heard someone say I would be happy to teach or share with people but I don't have time.
In this talk Amber Graner shares her moments on mentorship ideas. How to find those sharing and learning moments in every day conversation as well as being aware of buzz words used in a conversation that can generate thoseopportunities. Find out some of the unusual places Amber has both gained and shared knowledge at and how you can increase your mentoring opportunities.
The document discusses the differences between mentors and sponsors and how having both can help women advance their careers. Mentors provide guidance and advice, while sponsors actively advocate for their mentees and help them get promotions. Research shows women with mentors are more likely to get promotions. The document provides tips for finding sponsors, such as building on mentoring relationships. It recommends organizations formalize sponsor programs, engage men in promoting diversity, and make gender diversity a top priority to help women overcome barriers to leadership roles.
VolunteerMatch Best Practices for Recruiting OnlineVolunteerMatch
This document provides an agenda and overview for a webinar on best practices for recruiting volunteers online. The webinar will discuss making the case for online volunteer recruiting, best practices for titles, descriptions, and calls to action, and review real examples. It recommends keeping descriptions brief, simple, impactful, and providing direction. Resources mentioned include the VolunteerMatch learning center and community for additional help.
Understanding Soft Risk in Volunteer EngagementVolunteerMatch
Volunteer engagement often focuses on hard risks: accidents, past bad behavior, or access to confidential information. While these risks are real we often overlook the soft risks that also jeopardize the success and sustainability of volunteer engagement. This session will look at the soft risks associated with engaging volunteers including: “word of mouth” reputation, interactions on social media, lack of training being responsible for inaccurate information being given out, and how failing to screen for characteristics or “fit” can open volunteers, the volunteer engagement program, and the organization up to risk. Attendees will learn to identify these soft risks in their own program through examples, modeled interactions, & learnings from the HR and for-profit sectors, and develop a plan to mitigate the effects on their organization. Attendees will leave with a Soft Risk worksheet as well as action plan for addressing soft risk in recruiting, screening and training volunteers.
Interviewing each prospective volunteer can seem overwhelming, but it's one of the best ways to ensure that the volunteers you recruit are the volunteers you need. This webinar introduces a variety of question types used in volunteer interviews and offers strategies for honing your interview skills. Materials will be provided to help you implement this process in your organization, as well as a training syllabus so you can learn how to recruit and train a volunteer staff to assist with prospective volunteer interviews.
Writing Accurate and Useful Position DescriptionsVolunteerMatch
The document provides information about an upcoming webinar on writing accurate and useful position descriptions, including the agenda, components of position descriptions, and tips for developing them. The webinar will cover getting started, involving others, responsibilities, skills, and using descriptions for recruitment, training, and retention.
Four associations share how they use technology and new volunteer models to drive member volunteering. American Association of Diabetes Educators, Project Management Institute, NCURA, Mariner Management. ASAE MM&C Conference
How do recapture the spirit of volunteerism in your association? The slide deck shares finding and key questions for association professionals based on the white paper The Mission Driven Volunteer. Session from #Ideas14, ASAE Great Ideas.
How can you drive association chapter and member communities success? Use a tool from the business community: performance dashboards. Presented at ASAE's Membership, Marketing & Communications 2013 conference by Mariner principal Peter Houstle, IFT Katie Paffhouse and EO Brian Constanzo
The document discusses challenges and solutions related to databases for societies/chapters and their national organizations. It describes the evolution of CFA Institute's Society Data Center to a new Society Portal that will integrate more data and provide societies more flexibility. It also discusses the development of custom databases for PPAI regional affiliates and chapters that interface with their national systems. Considerations for chapters maintaining their own standalone databases are presented as well.
This document provides tips and examples for planning events that energize attendees. It recommends including a mix of content, ambiance and fun. Basic tenets include choosing topics of interest in novel ways, maximizing networking, keeping events lively and involving a team. Specific event ideas featured are speed networking, hands-on workshops, roundtables, virtual options and arts/education events. The goal is to continually add new elements to successful formats to keep attendees engaged.
This document discusses key aspects of developing a business succession plan. It explains that a business succession plan is a strategic process that provides a roadmap for transitioning business ownership, whether due to retirement, illness or death. The document outlines why every business needs a succession plan to maximize value, minimize taxes and ensure the survival of the business. It also describes the typical components of a succession plan, including establishing goals, identifying successors, addressing family and estate planning issues, and implementing an exit strategy.
The document discusses the 9 box model for classifying employees based on their performance and potential. The 9 box model assesses people on two dimensions: demonstrated performance on their current role and their long-term potential. It places employees into 9 categories within a grid based on these dimensions to help identify high potentials, develop employees, and ensure they are placed in roles that suit their skills. Each category is described in terms of the typical employee attributes and recommended actions for development or placement. The overall purpose is to accurately assess individuals to match their development plans to maximize their contribution to the organization.
The document provides 10 templates for simplifying talent management processes to make them more effective. Template 4 focuses on pinpointing priorities by identifying which roles are becoming more critical to the organization's future success and shifting competitive dynamics. This allows the organization to focus its talent management resources on developing people in the roles that matter most for the future, rather than spreading efforts too thinly across all roles. Identifying critical roles provides an opportunity for HR to connect with senior leadership on how the business is changing and the capabilities needed.
Developing a succession plan is important for retaining top talent and ensuring leadership continuity. Only 1% of companies rate their succession plans as excellent. Succession planning identifies key positions, assesses the competencies and skills required for each role, and develops employees to fill roles when current leaders depart. It is a systematic, ongoing process to retain intellectual capital and encourage advancement, not a one-time event. Tools like talent profiles and a decision matrix can help evaluate employees' performance and potential to identify candidates for development and succession.
The document describes a 9 box performance-potential matrix used to evaluate employees. The matrix compares an employee's current performance against their potential and places them into one of 9 boxes ranging from "outstanding performance/high potential" to "poor performance/limited potential". Each box provides definitions of the employee type and what behaviors and characteristics indicate they belong in that particular box.
The New Model for Talent Management: Agenda for 2015Josh Bersin
Corporate talent management has matured over the last ten years. In the light of today's new world of work, the globalization of the workforce, and the power of Millennials, it's time to rethink the model. Talent Management today is not just integration of HR - its a new set of 9 imperatives every company must address.
This document provides tips for motivating club members to succeed in Toastmasters. It discusses knowing your club members' motivations, using Toastmasters' time-tested methods, stimulating collaborative leadership, understanding members' motivations, and sharing best practices. The document emphasizes the importance of communication, listening, mentoring members, and creating a supportive environment to engage members and help them achieve their goals.
This document discusses strategies for building thriving online communities. It addresses challenges like starting a new community, encouraging commitment and contributions, and regulating behavior. It suggests using both extrinsic motivations like rewards and intrinsic motivations like fun to increase contributions. Gamification techniques from game design, like adding goals, feedback, and social interaction, can make tasks more enjoyable. Both verbal rewards and tangible rewards can motivate, though too many rewards may reduce intrinsic motivation. The document outlines strategies for gaining critical mass, looking after existing users, retaining users, keeping users busy, and discouraging lurking. It concludes with groups analyzing slides to identify issues and propose solutions for managing online community users.
Presentation to the Association Executive Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia sharing tools, techniques, resources, and thoughts for positively impacting nonprofit associations in North America.
AMA Alliance Mentoring 101 - Developing Leadership in Your Allianceamaalliance
The document provides guidance on developing mentoring programs and relationships within the AMA Alliance. It discusses establishing clear expectations and goals when forming mentoring pairs. The document emphasizes empowering mentees by asking questions, giving them responsibility, and providing constructive feedback to help them grow as leaders. Successful mentoring is presented as a two-way relationship that benefits both the mentor and mentee.
This document discusses strategies for improving recruitment and retention of direct support professionals (DSPs) through organizational culture change. It recommends showing DSPs respect and support through recognition, participation in organizational activities, professional development opportunities, employee training, and performance coaching. Frontline supervisors are key to DSP retention, so the document also discusses training supervisors to better orient, support and develop DSPs. Overall the strategies presented aim to develop DSPs' skills and careers, improve job satisfaction and commitment, and lower high turnover rates in the sector.
What Do Users Really Think? Surveying Users About Your Help Contentpatricia_gale
You explore the product. You interview SMEs. You write until your fingers cramp. You polish. You publish. And…then what?
Do users use your beautiful documentation? Do they like it? Do they find it useful? How do you know? Ask them! Learn how to conduct a user survey to understand customer satisfaction with your learning content. Who should attend: Technical communicators of all stripes who want to understand what users think of their content, with the goal of improving the content, its findability, and/or usability.
Planning and Cultivating Online CommunitiesScott Moore
The document discusses planning and cultivating online communities. It outlines characteristics of lasting communities like strong values and reciprocity. It also identifies 7 essential planning questions to consider, such as why the community is being created and what success looks like. Additionally, it provides tips for marketing, staffing, and managing communities, emphasizing the importance of listening, connecting members, and fostering leaders.
Ideas for HR professionals: Leadership, culture, motivation and coachingRichard Fryer
A range of ideas, models and processes to assist Organizational Development and Behavior practitioners in conceptualizing ways to address culture development through effective leadership.
This document provides guidance on growing an online community. It discusses common misconceptions about community management, how to set up a community by determining goals and platforms, getting buy-in from internal staff, and creating a strategy. It also covers running a community by understanding psychology of community, demonstrating value, and segmenting community members. The document emphasizes creating a sense of community through membership, influence, fulfilling needs, and shared emotional connection. It provides checklists for prelaunching and launching a community.
The document outlines 17 tactics for managing a development committee to help engage volunteers in fundraising success. The tactics include establishing a committee charter, providing educational sessions on fundraising concepts, conducting exercises to leverage volunteers' personal donor networks, hosting cultivation events, making thank you calls, and conducting an annual evaluation to ensure the right volunteers are engaged. Implementing the tactics through a development calendar can help apply them to any organization in a way that is appropriately sized.
Getting Your Board On Board With FundraisingBloomerang
This document summarizes a presentation about techniques for engaging boards in fundraising. The presentation discusses establishing short, medium, and long-term engagement tools. Short-term tools include reducing anxiety around fundraising, meeting face-to-face, providing specific tasks, and ongoing education. Medium-term tools involve creating an active development committee, assigning board members donors/prospects, and reporting fundraising successes. Long-term goals are to recruit a development-minded board, provide regular education, and participate in strategic planning and budgeting. The overall message is that boards must help ensure the organization can fulfill its mission through fundraising.
One-on-one reviews with management are crucial to delivering supportive, constructive and developmental feedback. This communication allows employees to improve their performance and develop their potential for future opportunities. Presently, many organizations are eliminating their outdated and indefensible performance appraisal programs with a new approach to talent development. In this interactive session, discover the principles and practices associated with conducting successful one-one-ones.
The document discusses leadership skills including organizational leadership, team leadership, and individual leadership. It provides information on using assessments to make objective hiring and placement decisions. Specific leadership goals are identified like setting strategic goals for an organization, building cohesive teams, and motivating individuals. Additional topics covered include creating a winning culture, improving people and business performance, and different leadership styles.
Drive Chapter Behavior with Targeted BenchmarkingBillhighway
Benchmarking (count and compare) can serve many purposes, but the most important purpose is to define what’s most important! Everyone’s likely heard some variation on the business maxim, “you can’t manage what you don’t measure,” but the corollary consequence, “you tend to manage what’s being measured” is often overlooked. Bottom line, if we want our chapters to help us serve the members and move the mission, we need to benchmark those behaviors that help us achieve that end. In other words, let’s count the things that count…and, oh by the way, all the things that count can’t necessarily be counted!
Benchmarking also implies comparison, and here’s the other important purpose. When we measure and make comparisons on those metrics which are truly important, we can then identify our “bright spots” – the high achievers – and replicate those behaviors across the system. Win-win!!
We talk about what we’re benchmarking (or not) and why. While there’s no guarantee, experience suggests that “if you measure it, they will do it,” so let’s be sure we measure the right stuff.
Yes. We hear that board member participation in fundraising is important to the overall success of a nonprofit's fundraising program...but where is the proof? This presentation was designed for the Leading Age RI Conference and Trade Show targeting long-term care organizations and professionals.
This document outlines strategies for engaging nonprofit boards in fundraising. It discusses research showing that board member access, signaling value to donors, and giving are important. Specific activities that yield results include peer-to-peer solicitation, development committees, and board member goals. The presentation provides steps for organizations to lay the groundwork, including clarifying board member roles, establishing fundraising goals and committees, and recognizing successes. The goal is to empower boards to contribute to sustainable fundraising.
Presentation slides from Toronto Agile Community conference, October 20, 2015, presented with Shawn Button. Topic is building an internal coaching capacity.
WEBINAR: How Leaders Support and Build a Culture of Process ImprovementGoLeanSixSigma.com
Tools are important for problem-solvers, but what about leaders? What do they have in their toolkit to help build problem solvers?
In this webinar, we'll discuss actions, mindsets and tools leaders have to support and build a culture of process improvement!
In this 1-hour webinar, we will cover the 4 key leader roles in building a continuous improvement culture:
- Create ideal conditions
- Build problem-solving muscles
- Identify key leader responsibilities
- Strategize on the 4 components of Lean culture
Similar to Building Volunteer Muscle in Your Chapter (20)
Engagement is key to member loyalty and volunteering is the stickiest form of engagement - so lets optimize volunteer opportunity in your association through #VolunteerLove. Tips and ideas. Samples.
This document discusses how to build an engaged member tribe by focusing on the different levels of member engagement from consuming to governing. It emphasizes that members prefer short-term, ad hoc volunteering opportunities and micro-volunteering that utilizes technology. The key is embracing new structures and formats, switching from directing members to defining goals, and focusing on the cause, people, and individual member's purpose.
How can we capture the excitement and passion while minimizing the occasional disruptive impact of stealth volunteers? A presentation from ASAE Marketing, Membership & Communications 2014 Conference.
Thinking about building a local chapter network - or re-imagining yours? A few key questions and tips exploring principals and effective practices for developing a strong chapter program.
This document provides a 10-step checklist for developing an energetic volunteer force for an organization. The steps include 1) committing to volunteer engagement in strategic plans and objectives, 2) mapping out volunteer opportunities with pathways and matrices, 3) creating a plan with clear goals, 4) developing job descriptions, 5) recruiting volunteer talent scouts, 6) offering various position types, 7) recognizing and rewarding volunteers, 8) measuring outcomes, 9) designating volunteer leadership, and 10) adapting to changing volunteer preferences. The overall goal is to effectively engage and retain volunteers to further the organization's mission.
The document discusses characteristics and recruitment of volunteers. It notes that today's volunteers are often interested in career development and constrained by time. They can be found through personal connections, existing relationships, and other volunteers. It is important to clearly define volunteer tasks and roles, set measurable goals, provide training and feedback, and recognize efforts and results. An example volunteer program from ISOC Bangalore aims to empower youth through computer and internet education.
This document discusses how associations can use components like geographic chapters, special interest groups, and virtual communities to drive member engagement. It recommends that associations understand members' key interests in issues, disciplines, or geography and create both formal and informal opportunities within components tailored to those drivers. Associations should also assist components with expertise, tools, and training and celebrate their successes to recognize and reward member participation.
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10. The power of delegating …
• Increases member
engagement and interest
• Builds trust
• Makes your team more
capable over time
It’s the secret
to succession!
11. Delegating with success …
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Trust people
Create review boards
Create smaller, intermediate outcomes
Answer the 3 questions …
12. #1 - What are you asking of them?
• Tie it to the mission
• Clearly articulate the outcome
• Focus on a short horizon
13. #2 - How are you asking?
• Avoid being vague
• Avoid dictating
14. #3 - How are you supporting?
• Policies & Procedures
• Clear direction, measurable
outcomes
• Clear deadlines
18. Questions …
Peggy M. Hoffman, CAE
Mariner Management & Marketing
phoffman@marinermanagement.com
301.725.2508
Connect with me on-line:
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Editor's Notes
"Volunteer leaders who learn how to pull answers rather than push answers are going to thrive.”Source: Cynthia D’Amour
A look at the Member Engagement Continuum … every member has a place
A look at the Member Engagement Continuum … every member has a place
Trends in Volunteerism: Members are Pro-socialASAE research clearly shows that the #1 reason for members to join and renew is tied to the association’s ability to provide collective (for the good of the profession or group) benefits. Personal benefits are trumped by collective benefits. Its not that personal benefits aren't important, but it’s the mix that counts and collective is rated higher.Source: ASAE Decision To Join, ASAE, www.asaecenter.org
Why do we need build volunteerism? … Builds organizational strength (Secret to retention & acquisition)
Why do we need build volunteerism? … Brings credibility to the organization
Why do we need build volunteerism? … Keep the organization young – in energy, ideas, resources
Why do we need build volunteerism? … Extends resources
Why do we need build volunteer muscle in our groups?
What is Delegating? Not just assigning work. Delegating is about making sure that the right work gets done at the right level, and making your team more capable over time. Delegating authority.When you delegate authority to workers in your organization, they become more engaged and interested.Builds trustBuilding capability requires learning. And there is no learning as great as that which comes after failing.
Trust peopleCreate review boards – maybe a group of members who the volunteer has to “present” their work for feedbackCreate smaller, intermediate outcomes – breakdown the job into smaller pieces
What are asking of themMissionClearShort
How are you askingVagueDictating
How are you supporting?P&PClear Direction, measurable outcomesClear deadlines
Take a minute to ask what your delegating IQ? Are you asking the right questions?Great read: http://leadingwithtrust.com/2013/10/20/dont-lead-scared-6-tips-for-leading-like-a-badass/
Have you met this volunteer? What would you do??Source: http://www.volunteerweekly.org/5-types-of-volunteers/; based on Abigail Harmon of Mersky, Jaffe & Associates
Let’s continue the conversation!
For more information, explanations or questions, contact Peggy M. Hoffman, CAEphoffman@marinermanagement.com * 301.725.2508 * Twitter: @peggyhoffmanAlso visit the blog at www.marinermanagement.com