November 2011 Everyone Ready Volunteer Management Online Seminar now available: Keeping Volunteers Motivated (So They Stay!)
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The latest Everyone Ready® online volunteer management training topic, Keeping Volunteers Motivated (So They Stay!) became available on Monday, November 21. All AFS-USA volunteers and staff can access the monthly Everyone Ready® topics online, via the "Resources" tab in Global Link.
This seminar will help you create an environment conducive to volunteer retention. You will be better able to avoid the costly “revolving door” of people who lose their initial motivation and enthusiasm.
Learning Objectives
After completing this seminar and discussing its content, participants will be able to:
- Distinguish between the motivations of volunteers when they first become involved and the reasons they remain committed over time.
- Describe how sustaining motivation is integrated with recruiting, supervising, training, mutual evaluation and recognizing volunteers.
- Recognize the signs of lessening or growing motivation and commitment.
- Describe at least 5 ways to actively keep veteran volunteers motivated.
This topic will be the main Everyone Ready topic through Sunday, December 18. On Monday December 19, the new topic, "Turning Single Days of Service into Longer Volunteer" will launch. At that time, the "Keeping Volunteers Motivated" topic will be moved to the Archived Topics section of the "Everyone Ready" main page.
Upcoming "Everyone Ready" topics are as follows and become available on the 3rd Monday of each month:
- 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
