Activities
The activities are suggestions to further explore the
issues raised by voluntary matters 3 in group
discussions or training sessions.
You may choose to do the activities with other people
from your organisation or with people
from a range of organisations. Contact your local Volunteer
Bureau or Council for Voluntary Service
to see if there is already a group forum in your area.
If not, set one up!
Watching the Staying Power TV programme
in a group will raise a number of issues, below are
other suggestions to get more out of a group session.
Discuss
As a group discuss what motivates volunteers
and whether good management can develop new motivations.
Also consider whether it's harder to manage volunteers
than paid staff because they don't have the motivating
effect of a pay packet. Spend about half an hour on
this.
In small groups discuss what motivates you
in your volunteering or paid work and how your motivation
has changed over time. Spend about half an hour on this.
Try
In pairs identify two different volunteers in your
organisation. Consider what motivates each of them and
the implications of their differing motivational
needs for the way you should manage them. Do
this for about half an hour.
In pairs make a list of volunteers who have left your
organisation. Do you know why they left and
what, in hindsight, could have been done to retain them?
Spend three quarters of an hour on this.
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Where to now?
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- Try doing the scenario
in a group to see how you would deal with an
unmotivated team of volunteers
- Check details of TV
programme transmission times or order
the video
- Tell us how you got on with the group activities
in the discussion
- Check out weblinks and publications in resources
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