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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Welcome back to #TuesdayTips for leaders of volunteers! This week, talking about the very common problem of paid staff complaining that they don't have enough volunteers, and that they don't have time to train them either.
I have 3 tips that work to fix this issue, all recently offered to mentees and clients in the same situation.
Tip #1: Create video trainings with intern/volunteer media studies/film making and/or journalism students from local colleges and high schools. You can also ask among your current volunteer talent pool if anyone has the skills and experience for this project. The film/video crew then can shadow the staff members and ask questions to add context and meaning to the duties and tasks for volunteers to learn more easily.
Video training modules can be posted on an eLearning platform, VMS volunteer portal, the org website, or a special TH-cam/Vimeo channel for the org if they do net yet have one. This way new volunteers can learn the basics of the role any time, aka asynchronous learning.
Tip #2: If there are any current volunteers in the role (that needs more people), empower them to train as a Team Lead, Buddy, job-shadowing teacher for other newer volunteers. This works well to set up a good talent pool and pipeline while paid staff are freed up to do other things.
Tip#3: Reality Check! If for any reason Tips # 1 and 2 won't work for your organization, have a heart-to-heart conversation with other staff that the time taken to train volunteers is well worth it. A little bit of extra time spent teaching volunteers pays off almost immediately. In longer terms this works for capacity building, and then can set up conditions for Tip #2.
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Feel free to contact Dana directly for coaching and consulting on strategic volunteer engagement, or for webinars and workshops:
dana@danalitwin.com www.danalitwinconsulting.com
