July 2011 Everyone Ready Volunteer Management Topic now online: Welcoming Diversity in Volunteer Participation
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Learn about the benefits of creating a diverse work environment. Ensure that volunteers of all types and from all cultures are invited and welcomed into your organization.The latest Everyone Ready® online volunteer management training topic, Welcoming Diversity in Volunteer Participation became available on Monday, July 18. All AFS-USA volunteers and staff can access the monthly Everyone Ready® topics online, via the "Resources" tab in Global Link.
Learning Objectives
After completing this seminar and discussing its content, participants will be able to:
- Explain principles of diversity and inclusion, and how these are integral to all management.
- Turn their awareness about diversity into action that demonstrates commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- See diversity as an opportunity.
- Deal effectively with situations that arise from differences.
This topic will be the main Everyone Ready topic through Sunday, August 13. On August 14, the new topic, "OUR Volunteer Program: The Management Team Approach to Enhancing Volunteer Programs" will launch. At that time, the "Welcoming Diversity in Volunteer Participation" topic will be moved to the Archived Topics section of the "Everyone Ready" main page.
Upcoming "Everyone Ready" topics are as follows:
- OUR Volunteer Program: The Management Team Approach to Enhancing Volunteer Programs, Self-Instruction Guide, Aug 2011
- Designing Work for Today's Volunteers, Seminar, Sep 2011
- It Takes Two to Tango: Building Successful Relationships Between Volunteers and Paid Staff, Self-Instruction Guide, Oct 2011
- Keeping Volunteers Motivated (So They Stay!), Seminar, Nov 2011
- Turning Single Days of Service into Longer Volunteer Involvement, Self-Instruction Guide, Dec 2011
- Building and Sustaining Strong Volunteer Leadership, Seminar, Jan 2012
- Reports with Clout: Showing the Impact of Volunteers, Self-Instruction Guide, Feb 2012
See Also
- AFS-USA Diversity Committee
