Mastering Nonprofit Volunteer Management

Unlock the Potential of Your Volunteer Force

What you'll learn

The benefits of volunteering, to the organization and the individual.

The factors within your control that affect your volunteer engagement approaches.

The four key principles of management: planning, organizing, supporting, and controlling.

How to identify what projects might need volunteers and how to tackle the overall recruitment and retention of volunteers.

The four components of adaptive leadership and how this leadership style can be applied to volunteer engagement goal-setting.

How we can calculate the value volunteer time and use a matrix to understand volunteer needs.

Ways of measuring volunteer engagement, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Launching a Needs Overlap Analysis (NOAH) process to refine your volunteer approaches.

How to consider technical and adaptive skills when setting goals surrounding volunteer engagement.

The concept of "mistreatment by misdiagnosis."

Requirements

No prior experience necessary!

Description

About this topic…Volunteer engagement measures an organization's ability to effectively manage volunteers.What You Will LearnThe benefits of volunteering, to the organization and the individual.How we can calculate the value volunteer time and use a matrix to understand volunteer needs.The factors within your control that affect your volunteer engagement approaches.Ways of measuring volunteer engagement, both quantitatively and qualitatively.The four key principles of management: planning, organizing, supporting, and controlling.Launching a Needs Overlap Analysis (NOAH) process to refine your volunteer approaches.How to identify what projects might need volunteers and how to tackle the overall recruitment and retention of volunteers.How to consider technical and adaptive skills when setting goals surrounding volunteer engagement.The four components of adaptive leadership and how this leadership style can be applied to volunteer engagement goal-setting.The concept of "mistreatment by misdiagnosis."Who is this topic for?Those working directly with volunteers, with programs that use volunteers, or in areas that require personnel planning or the valuation of your "people power" will all gain additional perspective through this learning series. Even if you're not in a role that currently interacts with donors regularly, the leadership concepts presented here are universal!This topic explores the following Korn Ferry competencies:Directs WorkDrives EngagementInterpersonal SavvyResourcefulnessBalancing Stakeholders

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to Nonprofit Volunteer Engagement

Lecture 2 Introduction to the Mastering Nonprofit Volunteer Management Course

Lecture 3 Downloadable Workbook

Section 2: Bronze 1: What is Volunteer Engagement?

Lecture 4 What you can expect in this lesson

Lecture 5 What is volunteer engagement?

Lecture 6 Why does volunteer engagement matter?

Section 3: Bronze 2: Skills to Improve Volunteer Enagagement Approaches

Lecture 7 Skills to Improve Volunteer Engagement Approaches

Section 4: Bronze 3: What Effective Volunteer Engagment Looks Like

Lecture 8 What Effective Impact-Focused Accountability Looks Like

Lecture 9 Measuring Volunteer Engagement

Section 5: Silver 1: Activating Your Own Volunteer Engagement Capacity

Lecture 10 What you can expect in this badge

Lecture 11 Activating Your Own Volunteer Engagement Capacity

Lecture 12 Leading Efforts that Build Volunteer Engagement

Section 6: Silver 2: How to Start Building Volunteer Engagement in Your Nonprofit

Lecture 13 How to Start Building Volunteer Engagement in your Nonprofit

Section 7: Silver 3: Setting Personal Goals to Build Volunteer Engagement

Lecture 14 Setting Personal Goals to Build Volunteer Engagement

Lecture 15 Setting Team Goals that Enhance Volunteer Engagement

Section 8: Gold 1: Getting Motivated about Volunteer Engagement

Lecture 16 What you can expect

Lecture 17 Getting Motivated About Volunteer Engagement

Lecture 18 Motivating Others About Volunteer Engagement

Section 9: Gold 2: Volunteer Engagement in Review

Lecture 19 Volunteer Engagement in Review

Those working directly with volunteers, with programs that use volunteers, or in areas that require personnel planning or the valuation of your "people power" will all gain additional perspective through this learning series.