Effective Practices for Volunteer Management
- Assessing a chairperson appointment with ten questions
- Assessing training needs quickly
- Calculating the attrition rate of volunteers
- Changing from staff supervision to a team-based system
- Conducting a survey on volunteering
- Conducting value-based volunteer training
- Creating a volunteer handbook
- Creating a welcoming environment for new volunteers
- Creating follow-up e-mail for online applicants
- Creating team project plans
- Dealing with bad news
- Dealing with difficult training situations
- Developing a survey to assess volunteer satisfaction
- Developing a volunteer program
- Developing an internship program to increase office capacity
- Developing eight core competencies for successful volunteer programs
- Encouraging task completion
- Engaging staff in reducing the volunteer attrition rate
- Ensuring a smooth transition during staff/volunteer turnover
- Evaluating your organization's volunteer climate
- Exploring ways volunteer managers can use value-based leadership
- Facilitating meetings effectively
- Finding guest trainers
- Interviewing volunteer applicants using role playing
- Making presentations accessible
- Managing online volunteers: six tips
- Managing volunteers
- Matching the right volunteer with the right assignment
- Maximizing higher education volunteerism at community drop-in resource centers
- Planning a Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service
- Planning a National Youth Service Day project
- Planning a participant or staff retreat
- Planning and conducting effective training sessions
- Preventing volunteer burnout
- Promoting National Volunteer Week
- Promoting volunteer leadership
- Promoting youth volunteerism with a multi-district council
- Providing guidelines for inexperienced volunteers
- Providing successful training sessions in eight core competencies
- Reaching a consensus among online volunteers
- Reducing the time and expense of issuing travel reimbursements
- Resolving conflict between volunteers
- Resolving differences of opinion
- Resolving team conflict
- Retaining volunteers through long training periods
- Screening online volunteers
- Supporting volunteers with mental illness
- Turning "problem" staff into great staff: ten principles
- Understanding adult learning when training senior volunteers
- Using a personal style inventory for volunteer and member development
- Using a policy and procedure manual to guide volunteers
- Using a team project to conduct a group interview
- Using both paid providers and volunteers
- Using Instant Messaging to promote communication with volunteers
- Using volunteer retention principles to examine program strengths and challenges
- Utilizing an eight-step conflict resolution process to reach an agreement
- Volunteering by, in, and with low-income communities