9 Success Tips for Leading Volunteers
July 25, 2023
Volunteers can be the secret sauce for success or a real pain to deal with. Here are 9 success tips for leading volunteers.
Welcome to Hardy Smith’s blog, where he shares experience and insight learned through decades in the corporate world and advocating on behalf of nonprofits and associations across America.
Hardy’s mission is to help maximize the performance of nonprofits and associations and their essential leadership teams.
If you’re seeking to triumph over communication challenges, bring meaningful and manageable solutions to, and realize measurable results of your organization, this blog will give you more than ideas — it will maximize your team’s performance like never before.
Volunteers can be the secret sauce for success or a real pain to deal with. Here are 9 success tips for leading volunteers.
Volunteers are the secret sauce for success for many organizations. However in many situations volunteers can be more of a pain than a help.
If you’re tired of being frustrated by non-performing board members, make board development the priority it deserves. Making board leadership matter requires taking necessary action to ensure you have the best possible board candidates, providing needed training so they will know what they need to know, and making sure future leaders get prerequisite experience so they will be prepared to lead.
I recently was interviewed by Wiley Publication’s “Board and Administrator” Editor Jeff Stratton in his article, “Boost Board Commitment With This Recruiting Mindset.” I discussed with Jeff the all-to-common disconnection between CEO expectations and board members they are working to recruit. Can you relate?
When you are recruiting board members, what gets your prospects to yes? Survey responses identified several major considerations that influence a prospect’s decision before a commitment to yes is made.
Why do board-member prospects say No? The response could actually have meaning that goes much deeper than “not enough time” or “not having a connection with the cause.”
When’s the last time you surveyed your volunteers? Guest writer Vickie Pleus is a public-relations professional with three reasons why it’s always a good idea.
Recruiting, retaining, and leading volunteers can be a challenge. In her book “From LIbrary Volunteer to Library Advocate,” Carla Campbell Lehn delivers a well-defined case for rethinking how volunteers are engaged and provides guidance for implementing a successful volunteer program.
Nonprofit leaders seeking to improve relationships with their board members can benefit from this common-sense wisdom that reminds us of the value of fostering relationships among board members.
Can an organization with such a casual approach — picking leaders without much forethought — really be serious about achieving its stated purpose? Shouldn’t leadership selection be intentional instead of accidental?
Volunteers can be the secret sauce for success or a real pain to deal with. Here are 9 success tips for leading volunteers.
Volunteers are the secret sauce for success for many organizations. However in many situations volunteers can be more of a pain than a help.
If you’re tired of being frustrated by non-performing board members, make board development the priority it deserves. Making board leadership matter requires taking necessary action to ensure you have the best possible board candidates, providing needed training so they will know what they need to know, and making sure future leaders get prerequisite experience so they will be prepared to lead.
I recently was interviewed by Wiley Publication’s “Board and Administrator” Editor Jeff Stratton in his article, “Boost Board Commitment With This Recruiting Mindset.” I discussed with Jeff the all-to-common disconnection between CEO expectations and board members they are working to recruit. Can you relate?
When you are recruiting board members, what gets your prospects to yes? Survey responses identified several major considerations that influence a prospect’s decision before a commitment to yes is made.
Why do board-member prospects say No? The response could actually have meaning that goes much deeper than “not enough time” or “not having a connection with the cause.”
When’s the last time you surveyed your volunteers? Guest writer Vickie Pleus is a public-relations professional with three reasons why it’s always a good idea.
Recruiting, retaining, and leading volunteers can be a challenge. In her book “From LIbrary Volunteer to Library Advocate,” Carla Campbell Lehn delivers a well-defined case for rethinking how volunteers are engaged and provides guidance for implementing a successful volunteer program.
Nonprofit leaders seeking to improve relationships with their board members can benefit from this common-sense wisdom that reminds us of the value of fostering relationships among board members.
Can an organization with such a casual approach — picking leaders without much forethought — really be serious about achieving its stated purpose? Shouldn’t leadership selection be intentional instead of accidental?
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