Back by Popular Demand - Everyone Ready "Generations" Module
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Due to volunteer and staff demand (and an upcoming volunteer conference call in the East), the July 2010 Everyone Ready module, "Generations: Adapting to Volunteers of Different Ages" has once more been made available to AFS-USA staff and volunteers. Volunteers and staff who wish to access this module may do so through Sunday, October 24. This module can be found in the "Archived Topics" section of the Everyone Ready main page.
After completing this seminar and discussing its content, participants will be able to:
- Explain why planning for and managing generation change is crucial for your organization to maintain high-quality services in the future.
- Describe some of the key differences among generations today and how these have an impact on each age group's volunteering.
- Incorporate generational issues into your strategic planning for volunteer work design, recruitment, and ongoing management.
Content Overview
- Defining the different generations and their perspectives in general.
- How these differences have an impact on absolutely everything, including their expectations of and approach to volunteering.
- How to adapt volunteer recruitment, orientation and training, supervision, recognition, and other volunteer management activities to how volunteers of different ages approach their service.
- Issues that arise when different generations work with one another.
- The importance of treating people as individuals, despite assumptions about their generational behavior.
In order to access these materials, log-in to Global Link and click on the "Resources" tab. Then click on the "Everyone Ready" icon and go into the archived topics section, once you get to the Everyone Ready homepage. While you're there, check out some of the other recent topics that are available for our volunteers and staff.
To learn more about "Everyone Ready," click here
