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Volunteer Management and Volunteer Forms

by Judy Esmond on

Volunteer management, volunteer recruitment and volunteer recognition ideas.

Hi Everyone,

For those in volunteer management, volunteer recruitment and volunteer retention, here’s another idea for you on:

BARRIERS – DO YOUR FORMS STOP PEOPLE JOINING UP?

FORMS can be a big barrier to volunteering.

Yes there are forms that all potential volunteers need to complete for legal reasons.

But many organizations and groups have their own internal forms that could do with a makeover and are an added barrier to volunteering.

CHECK YOUR FORMS AND CONSIDER THESE QUESTIONS ON RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS

So critically check the forms that you ask people to complete:
Are all the forms necessary?
Are they too complex?
Do they make cultural assumptions?
Do they in fact create a barrier for people from different cultural or educational backgrounds?

Simplify your forms or get rid of them! Make the process of joining up as easy as possible. Do not let a form alone become the reason someone could not become a volunteer for you.

Forms should be useful tools for volunteer recruitment and volunteer attraction not tools of volunteer de-traction.

This idea is adapted are from the best selling book Count Me in! 501 Ideas on Recruiting Volunteers. You can get your own copy today.

ONE QUOTE

Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify – Henry David Thoreau

Also from the book Count Me in! 501 Ideas on Recruiting Volunteers.

Enjoy!

Judy

Dr Judy Esmond
An International Expert on Volunteering

P.S. Make sure to let others know that they can also get these quick tips by signing up at our website www.morevolunteers.com.

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Volunteer Management and Recruiting Volunteers

by Judy Esmond on

Volunteer management, volunteer recruitment and volunteer recognition.

Hi Everyone,

Here’s another volunteer management idea for you on volunteer recruitment and also about thinking differently about your current volunteers as part of your recruiting strategies.

WHERE TO BEGIN A NEW VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT STRATEGY

Want to know where to begin any new recruitment strategy? Let us dig a little deeper! Start by making sure that your current volunteers are still matched to suitable volunteer roles.

This is so often forgotten by those in volunteer management when looking at their volunteer recruitment strategies.

CURRENT VOLUNTEERS SLIP AWAY

Often, volunteers are still doing the same job as they did when they started. Volunteer managers often forget or do not even realise that these longer term volunteers can get bored with their role. Change is important for all of us in the work that we do. However, these volunteers rarely tell you that they are bored or have become disinterested in their volunteering work and then just slip away.

TAKE NOTE OF YOUR CURRENT VOLUNTEERS

So do keep in mind that it is important to regularly ‘touch base’ with your current volunteers and check that their existing roles and tasks are still interesting and engaging for them. Because people change, grow and develop, so make sure your volunteer assignments do too.

100S MORE IDEAS FOR YOU

Want 100s more ideas like this. Well, this is just one of the 501 Ideas from the book Count Me In! 501 Ideas on Recruiting at the link below…

https://morevolunteers.com/productsbooks.htm

Enjoy,

JUDY

Dr Judy Esmond

P.S. Make sure to click on ‘comments’ below and keep on sharing your own thoughts, comments and ideas on volunteer management.

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