Volunteer management, volunteer recognition and volunteer recruitment…

Hi All,

Here’s another quick tip for you in volunteer management on setting your goals. Sometimes re-assessing your goals can ensure your success in achieving these goals.

LET US CONSIDER WHAT IS YOUR GOAL IN MORE DEPTH

In workshops I often ask people to define their volunteer recruitment goals. Often people explain that their goal is something like this – to recruit 3 people who can volunteer for 3 full days a week. They are also finding it difficult to recruit these 3 people.

REWORK THOSE GOALS

It is not easy for people to always have 3 days available to volunteer. So what if you re-work this goal? What is it you actually think about the goal in a different way? Get ready to open your mind with this goal. What if you change the goal to a number of hours? Then the goal becomes “to recruit enough people to do 24 hours of volunteer work a week”.

POSSIBILITIES OPEN UP FOR YOU

This now means we could consider people volunteering for different lengths of time. For instance, 1 person may do 1 day per week (8 hrs), and 4 people do a half day each per week (16 hrs). There could be a number of combinations. Yes it involves more volunteers but if you cannot reach your original goal consider how to rework that goal for success.

Regards

JUDY

Dr Judy Esmond

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