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Flex Your Volunteer Core

Flex Your Volunteer Core. Make a Plan. How will you use them once you have them Develop your message Design a training system. Recruiting the Troops. Your best and most charismatic! Identify skills you need, not just bodies Tie volunteering to your mission and the community.

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Flex Your Volunteer Core

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  1. Flex Your Volunteer Core

  2. Make a Plan • How will you use them once you have them • Develop your message • Design a training system

  3. Recruiting the Troops • Your best and most charismatic! • Identify skills you need, not just bodies • Tie volunteering to your mission and the community

  4. Volunteer Training • Lay out Expectations • Provide volunteers with a job description • Make it manageable!

  5. Where to Look….. • Partner with local schools and churches who have community service requirements • Ask a specific person rather than a group • Ask people who originally said no- What’s more flattering? One ask or two?

  6. Sing Their Praises • Make a plan to highlight volunteers on a regular basis • Everyone likes free stuff! • Make everyone a cool kid

  7. The 5th Quarter • Communicate regularly • Move them through the ranks • Engage them in succession planning

  8. Be the Face • You can’t light a fire with a wet match! • Remember why your team/program is important • Take time to stoke your own fire

  9. "Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others." —  Anonymous

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