Volunteer Victories: Recruit, Retain & Maintain Volunteer

Leadership

Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP@hduckworth

#LSI #leadership Leadership Solutions International

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Intentions for the Session

Define what it means to be an effective volunteer board member

Identify how to retain volunteers by delegating tasks that are meaningful and contribute

Create customized ongoing appreciation plans that will grow your volunteer bases for years to come

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American Society for Association Executives

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The dating game:

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What traits do you want in a volunteer?

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What are the benefits of volunteering?

What skills should go on my volunteer job description?

Personal Skills

Leadership Strategic Thinking Communication Influence Loyalty Business Acumen Financial Skills

Shared Board Skills

Association Experience Diversity – reflects

membership Global Mindset (if applicable) Financial Expertise Association Experience Governance Strategic Planning

Skills Analysis - Individual

Skills Analysis - Collective

Your 6 Word Job Description

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Simplify Volunteer Work

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Greater impact to your vision mission Save organization time Increase organizations revenues

Why use Volunteers?

It’s more than the difference between simply a pay check and no pay check. Are you teaching your volunteers this when they work with other

volunteers?

Volunteer vs. Employee

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Honest How much time does it really take? What times of the year are busy on this committee?

Authentic Job Description

Specific Start Date/time Specific End Date /time

Delegation Let them own it Follow Up Appreciation

How many people do we need? How do we Recruit Volunteers?

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Understand Motivations of the person Learn a skill Share a skill

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Remember with volunteers they have a choice and 100’s of other organizations would love to have the same people

With volunteers it is all personal and passion

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Volunteer Fair Virtual Volunteerism Job board Volunteer Manager

Use of President Elect, to recruit to their team Track skills of your members

Offer Leadership Training Tell your own Testimonials about why and how

you volunteer (web, newsletter, in person)

Recruitment Ideas:

Volunteers need to know they are part of something bigger

Next Generation Volunteers

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Tips to Volunteer Recruitment

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Give them ownership Give them something meaningful to do Demonstrate for them how what they do

makes a difference to the organization Make it easy to volunteer Keep task sizes manageable Have regular committee meetings

Secrets to Retain Volunteers?

Listen: Know your members

Work on a cause that means something to you

Consider sills you have to offer Do you want to learn something new Combine goals Don’t over commit Think family I never thought of that vs. that will never

work

7 Tips on Successful Volunteerism

Secret Millionaire

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Ongoing Appreciation

No handout?

All the links and references for each of the case studies and

more can be www.hollyduckworth.com/tsae

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Intentions for the Session

Define what it means to be an effective volunteer board member

Identify how to retain volunteers by delegating tasks that are meaningful and contribute

Create customized ongoing appreciation plans that will grow your volunteer bases for years to come

Thank You!

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Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP

Available Early 2013

Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP Leadership Solutions International

@hduckworth

Volunteer Victories: Recruit, Retain & Maintain Volunteer

Leadership