Michael
Lewis Training, Motivation and Development
Professional
Development for Volunteer Coordinators / Administrators
Some suggested presentations, seminar and workshops.
Protect Your
Reputation: Ensuring Great Volunteers Act Accordingly in The Eye the Public!
So many volunteers work consciously and dedicate
themselves to acting appropriately but it only takes a few to impact the
reputation of your organization or agency in the community especially in the
age of social media.
Learn what to do before an incident does harm to
your reputation.
Appreciating and Guiding Your Aging
Volunteers!
More and more organizations
are seeing an aging volunteer base, which presents challenges and
opportunities. What will you do with your silver tsunami?
and how will you
ensure your older volunteer will stay vital to your success?
Motivating Your Volunteers on a Budget!
You know you have a
modest budget so how do we motivate and inspire your volunteers? This seminar
looks at innovate and of course, cost effective solutions!
The New Three Rs for Volunteer Organizations!
From recruiting, new volunteers to replace retiring volunteers or
building your skill base, keeping your volunteers inspired and motivated to
contribute when called on to using the power of word of mouth to build your
volunteer corps, this a great presentation to point out the new ways of
organizational volunteer development.
Recruiting, Training and Retaining Your
Volunteers!
Where will your next volunteers come from and
when you get them and what is the best way to ensure they are thoroughly
trained and competent in their roles?
Coaching
and Evaluating Volunteers!
Valuable
seminar designed for anyone who provides guidance or administration to
volunteers. Lessons revolve around how to coach volunteers and how to evaluate
their efforts and performance. What
does it
mean to coach your volunteers and what
are the benefits for them and your organization? We will look not only at coaching
but setting up a system so you can also objectively evaluate your volunteers
and ensure success in their efforts
Effectively Interviewing Volunteers!
This informative presentation looks at
the important and considerate approaches of interviewing your potential
volunteers as you look to add to your volunteer base. Areas covered and
discussed includes interviewing for
volunteers, constructing the position such as the role of a job description /
definition, effective
listening and interviewing skills and questions that are the key to a great
interview.
Dealing
with Difficult People: Seven Simple Steps to Success!
Throughout your career as a
volunteer administrator or coordinator, you will all have to deal at sometime
with difficult and challenging people and personalities. This inspiring
and insightful seminar
presents seven very basic
and common-sense solutions to enact when you find yourself having to go “toe to
toe” with that difficult person.
Art of Delegation: How to Delegate Responsibility with
Respect to Your Volunteers!
Delegation
is a critical volunteer leadership skill and one that cannot be ignored. To
delegate responsibility with respect builds great people and great teams. In
this workshop, we will define what delegation means and
how
it frees managers to manager and empowers staff with valuable workplace skills.
We'll examine the appropriate attitude and approach to delegating and how to
ensure we clearly define the tasks required.
Making Meetings Work: How to Organize and Conduct Effective, Productive
Meetings!
Meetings are humorously defined
as events where minutes are kept, and hours are lost. Making meetings work is
about drafting a design and system that will work every time and that time is
well invested.
Greater Volunteer Engagement: Strategies
to Keep Your Volunteers Passionate and Fulfilled!
How do we keep the fires
burning in our volunteers? What happens when tasks start to feel routine and
the thrill and purpose behind making a difference fades. As leaders with
volunteers it is up to us to be mindful
of the level of
engagement and then respond with solutions to address fading commitments.
TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves
Miracles!
It takes teamwork to
make your dream work and getting everyone aligned and pulling together is how even
a small group of dedicated volunteers can achieve a lot and in some
cases…miracles.
Discover
simple tools to build a real sense of connection and team and learn that
together everyone can achieve so much more.
How to Make Things Right, When Things
Go Wrong!
As a volunteer
coordinator / manager it might fall on you to resolve differences between
volunteers. As you can imagine and maybe well know, volunteers can get quite
passionate and emotional about their
feelings about
contributing. Sometimes they may encounter another volunteer who is equally
passionate and a dispute or conflict will emerge. This seminar outlines how to
approach the situation and what
restorative questions
can be asked to get people talking and healing.
Marketing Opportunity: Attracting and
Keeping the Silver Tsunami!
It is estimated millions of North Americans will turn sixty
this year and, in your community, they are the perfect new group to attract
into volunteering. Young enough to being vitality to their new roles
and yet with ton of life experience to bring maturity and
wisdom to a new chapter in their lives. How are you going to reach them and
entice them to consider volunteering with your organization?
How are you going to retain them and keep them engaged and
coming back?
Managing and Maximizing the Connections
Your Generationally Diverse Volunteers!
This workshop looks at the
diverse differences of four core generational groups of volunteers but makes
the case that with a number of strategies you can get a great chemistry or
align people better to
make teams work better and
more cohesively. Embrace your generationally diverse volunteers and make it all
work out.
And Other Duties as
Assigned!
To be an effective
administrator, you need to have order in your own life and this presentation
examines simple ways to do so. Learn how to manage your time, tasks and keep
your life better
organized in this often humorous
look all the extra duties that life throws at us.
The Art of Delegation: How to Delegate Responsibility with Respect.
Delegation is a critical leadership skill and one that
cannot be ignored. To delegate responsibility with respect builds great people
and great teams. In this workshop we will define what delegation
really means and how it frees administrators to manage
and empowers volunteer with valuable skills. We'll examine the appropriate
attitude and approach to delegating and how to
ensure we clearly define the tasks required. It is a
step-by-step how to workshop for any level of leadership experience and if
learned and applied, will create a more productive and skilled staff
and workplace able to be more responsive and service
focused.
Coaching and Evaluating Volunteers
What does it mean to “coach” volunteers and what are the
benefits for them and your organization?
Everyone likes to know they are doing well and many what or have an
interest on how to
improve their
performance. We take a look not only at coaching but setting up a system so you
can also objectively evaluate your volunteers and ensure success in their efforts.
Effectively Interviewing Volunteers
This informative presentation looks at the important and
considerate approaches of interviewing your potential volunteers as you look to
add to your volunteer base. Areas covered and discussed
includes interviewing for volunteers, constructing the position – the role
of a job description / definition, effective listening and interviewing skills
and questions that are the key to a great interview.
The
New Three R’s for Volunteer Organizations
From
recruiting new volunteers to replace retiring volunteers or building your skill
base, keeping your volunteers inspired and motivated to contribute when called
on to using the power of
word
of mouth to build your volunteer corps, this a great presentation to point out
the new ways of organizational volunteer development.
Stepping
into Leadership: How to Lead with Confidence!
Leadership of volunteers is a privilege
that when it is presented fairly, equitably and with respect can build and
strengthen relationships. This workshop outlines how to step into the roll of
leading others
with confidence and success. This
is an excellent workshop for those who have recently taken on a role as a
volunteer administrator or coordinator.
Workplace Personalities and How to Work with Them!
Every workplace will have its challenges
and one of those challenges is working with other people with sometimes, very
different personalities. Discover how to recognize the different personalities
you need to work with and how to
work with them for improved workplace harmony.
Motivating Your Volunteers on A Budget
Your challenge is how to motivate and inspire your
volunteers. Your other challenge, you
have a very small budget. What do you do? How to ensure your volunteers are
upbeat and positive and feel
appreciated and how to you motivate them? Discover how
in this inspiring workshop!
Running Effective Meetings
What are the keys to successful,
productive meetings that respect the clock ensure results and end with a strong
sense of accomplishment? Do you design effective winning agendas and lead with
confidence so to ensure successful,
productive meetings? In this motivational and informative seminar, learn how to
chair and run a winning meeting that is productive, positive, accomplishes
goals and utilizes everyone’s time efficiently.
The Communication Toolbox
There can be no doubt how counterproductive miscommunication and
misunderstandings can cost you both personally and professionally. Discover
common sense solutions to ensure you
minimize typical communication problems and build the basis of
better interpersonal communication. Your volunteers deserve clear communication
and guidance.
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