Mastering Nonprofit Volunteer Management & Leadership

About This Course

By effectively managing and engaging volunteers, nonprofits can treat these dedicated individuals as a measurable resource, thereby enhancing the efficiency and reach of their program delivery. Engaged volunteers are often the most committed supporters, bringing passion and care to their roles. They not only help drive the mission forward but also foster a sense of community and shared purpose within the organization. Learning the best practices of volunteer engagement ensures that nonprofits can harness the full potential of their volunteer workforce, making the most of the skills and time offered by people who truly care about the cause.

What You Will Learn

The benefits of volunteering, to the organization and the individual.

How we can calculate the value volunteer time and use a matrix to understand volunteer needs.

The factors within your control that affect your volunteer engagement approaches.

Ways of measuring volunteer engagement, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

The four key principles of management: planning, organizing, supporting, and controlling.

Launching a Needs Overlap Analysis (NOAH) process to refine your volunteer approaches.

How to identify what projects might need volunteers and how to tackle the overall recruitment and retention of volunteers.

How to consider technical and adaptive skills when setting goals surrounding volunteer engagement.

The four components of adaptive leadership and how this leadership style can be applied to volunteer engagement goal-setting.

The concept of "mistreatment by misdiagnosis."

Who is this course for?

Those working directly with volunteers, with programs that use volunteers, or in areas that require personnel planning or the valuation of your "people power" will all gain additional perspective through this learning series. Even if you're not in a role that currently interacts with donors regularly, the leadership concepts presented here are universal!

This course explores the following Korn Ferry competencies:

Directs Work

Drives Engagement

Interpersonal Savvy

Resourcefulness

Balancing Stakeholders