People First, Mission Second: How to Recruit, Train, and Retain Volunteers
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Churches and other non-profit organizations could not exist without a strong volunteer workforce. Yet many organizations struggle to maintain an adequate volunteer corps to provide the services needed with excellence and enthusiasm. In this course, Ray Deck, drawing on his first-hand experience, addresses how to solve these problems. Ray is the Founding Director of Skookum Kids, a first-care provider for children entering the foster care system. Skookum Kids trains volunteers to serve both prospective foster parents and the children awaiting placement.
Ray’s “secret” to this successful ministry is a volunteer recruitment, training, and management system that puts people first and mission second. Take care of your people and the people will take care of the ministry. This course is full of practical approaches to developing and maintaining a successful volunteer funnel to facilitate the process through a constant process of evaluation that leads to action. Ray firmly believes that such a system can be developed and used by any volunteer-based organization. This course will show you how.
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and Course
The Volunteer Funnel
- Three Phases of Organizational Maturity
- Invite People into an Experience
- Ask on a Schedule, Not Because of Need
- People Want to Be Part of Something Bigger Than Themselves
- The Danger Zone: Where Interest Expires
- The Key to Training: I, We, You
- Everyone Wants to Be Part of a Winning Team
- Evaluating Your System
Conclusion
- Revisiting Organizational Maturity
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- How Does This System Look Different in Different Organizations?
- How Can Organizations Mature from Start to Master Faster?
- What about Experimentation in the Start Phase?
- How to Craft a Vision
- How to Regain Funnel Velocity When It’s Slowed Down
- How Can I Evaluate Attrition Rates?
- Title: People First, Mission Second: How to Recruit, Train, and Retain Volunteers
- Instructor: Ray Deck III
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2022
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts and video resources
- Courses: 1
- Video Hours: 1.5
Partially includedRay Deck is the Founding Director of Skookum Kids, a first-care provider for children entering the foster care system