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Volunteer Focus- A Volunteer Manager's Seminar Series
The Professional Association of Volunteer Managers Ireland (PAVMI) in association with Volunteering Ireland is hosting a seminar series for all those involved with Volunteer Management and/or Coordination. These first two spring seminars include day long presentations from world renowned experts in the field of volunteer management. Don’t miss out on this opportunity. Sign up now to reserve your place. See below for specific seminar details and registration form.
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To book a place at the seminar please print out and complete our Registration Form with the correct fee to Volunteering Ireland. (Zsé Varga, 18 Eustace Street, Dublin 2)
Rick Lynch
Keeping Volunteers
Thursday, 13th March 2008, 9:30am-4:00pm
Location: 18 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Richard Lynch is a Seattle-based management consultant with a variety of clients in the United States, Canada, England, and Russia. He works with businesses, non-profits, and local governments on achieving more results with less cost and effort.
Each year, Mr. Lynch speaks at approximately 150 workshops, conventions, and conferences on topics related to personal growth and management effectiveness. He is the author of the books Precision Management, Getting Out of Your Own Way, and a monograph called Developing Your Leadership Potential. He is the co-author of Essential Volunteer Management and Secrets of Leadership, and is a contributor to professional journals. His latest book, Lead!, was published by Jossey-Bass in 1993.
Before starting his own firm in 1977, Mr. Lynch worked for two New York based consulting firms. He holds a Master's degree from the University of Iowa. About Rick’s new book:
Keeping Volunteers - A guide to retention - Steve McCurley & Rick Lynch 2007
Keeping Volunteers focuses on demonstrated methods for enhancing volunteer retention and commitment. Effective volunteer programs of the future will worry more about maintaining the involvement of the volunteers they already have rather than waging continuous and expensive recruitment campaigns. Are you keeping volunteers engaged for the long haul?
Chapters cover the basic rules of retention, how to make volunteers feel special and part of a team, handling volunteer burnout, moving people from short-term to long-term service, and more - even how to release a volunteer from service! Relying on hundreds of programme experiences and studies from around the world, Keeping Volunteers is the first globally-based examination of effective techniques for ensuring that volunteers feel valued, recognized, and connected with the organization's mission.
Programme:
9:30- 10:00: Registration and Coffee
10.00-10.15: Introduction by Elaine Bradley, CEO Volunteering Ireland
10.15-13.00: 10.00-10.15: Introduction by Elaine Bradley, CEO Volunteering Ireland
10.15-13.00: KEEPING VOLUNTEERS
This seminar is strongly inspired by Rick’s new book: “Keeping Volunteers – A guide to retention”. The course examines effective techniques for ensuring that volunteers feel valued, recognised and connected with the organisation's mission. The event also focuses on methods to retain volunteers once recruited. It goes through various aspects of handling volunteers, from welcoming them to the team, to dealing with volunteer burnout.
13.00-13.45 lunch
13.45 – 16.00: Cont. KEEPING VOLUNTEERS
Martin J Cowling
Two Part Seminar: Creating a Pro Volunteer Culture & Beyond the Stereotypes: Managing Generational Issues in Volunteering
Monday, 4th February 2008, 9:30am-4:00pm
Location: Boston College, 42 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
Martin J Cowling is founder and CEO of People First –Total Solutions (www.pfts.com.au), an international consulting and training firm focusing on volunteer engagement, strategic planning, and board development. He possesses almost 20 years of management experience with organizations including UNICEF, AFS Intercultural Programs, The Smith Family, and Victorian Relief.
Martin believes that people are the key to an organization's success or often the very reason for failure and he is passionate about ensuring that staff (both paid and unpaid) have mutually beneficial relationships.
Martin is an entertaining and dynamic speaker and a skilled presenter. He provides public speaking, consultation and training services for a wide range of public and private organizations in the United States, New Zealand and Australia as well as individual coaching.
Programme:
9:30- 10:00: Registration and Coffee
10.00-10.15: Introduction by Elaine Bradley, CEO Volunteering Ireland
10.15-13.00: CREATING A PRO VOLUNTEER CULTURE
Volunteer Managers need to identify how they will work within and influence their culture of their organization to ensure it is as effective as possible for encouraging and keeping volunteers. This interactive session will include:
1. Understanding what is “culture?
2. Learning why your organisation’s culture important?
3. Discovering the Six Elements of Culture?
4. Imagining a perfect pro volunteer culture
5. Identifying Actions to move on with
13.00-13.45 lunch
13.45 – 16.00: BEYOND THE STEREOTYPES: MANAGING GENERATIONAL ISSUES IN VOLUNTEERING Every generation is influenced by significant economic, political and social events, movements or innovations. These events shape the way a generation interacts, views the world- and volunteers.
Of course not every person will fit within their generational stereotype but understanding diversity is important, to build good communication, effective working relationships and good service provision.
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