Category Archives: Training
Having Trouble Coming Up With a New Year’s Resolution?
By Jen Lobley, M.ED, CVA This is the time of year when everyone starts to think about their New Year’s Resolutions. Some of the most popular ones that are made time and time again include exercise more, eat less, get … Continue reading
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Supporting Youth Leadership
By Matt Robinson Let’s hear it for the staff and organizers of Maine Youth Action Network’s (MYAN) 27th Annual Peer Conference. I had the privilege of attending their conference this year on Veterans’ Day at the Augusta Civic Center. If … Continue reading
Your Brand Online: Personal, Organizational & Cause
The challenge is to empower volunteers to create content and manage accounts while maintaining control of both your brand’s image & message and your critical information such as logins and passwords. Continue reading
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Facilitation and Working Agreements
We all say that we facilitate meetings – but are we truly facilitating? Continue reading
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3 Organizational Communication Trainings that Can Add Value (for your organization and its volunteers!); Part I: Convening Effective Meetings
When we engage in volunteer and staff trainings, we often focus on the broad benefits to our organizations. These are excellent outcomes, but trainings can achieve much more. Continue reading
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If I Get Hit by a Truss
by Michele Ober While I was a middle school math teacher for only a few years, two principles have recently proven useful – develop your own “If I Get Hit by a Bus” book and “don’t reinvent the wheel.” As … Continue reading
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Proud to be a Gypsy
by Vicki Schmidt Some of my best friends are Chief Officers in urban, fulltime “round-the-clock” staffed Fire Departments. Another coalition of friends are career firefighters in fully staffed shift-scheduled union Departments. And then there are my firefighter friends and fire … Continue reading
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Coaching part II
By Elizabeth Cole My nephew is going through the why phase. You know, the phase where you can’t go more than three minutes without some existential discussion? “Auntie Liz, Why do ants live in the dirt?” “Because they like to.” … Continue reading
Posted in People, Retention, Strategies, Training, Uncategorized
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Grant writing for Social Change
By Patricia Kimball Most people think I am crazy when I tell them that I love writing grants. They look at me with a sideward glance, more than a little skeptical…their look suggesting I must have a screw loose. While … Continue reading
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Recordkeeping
By Anne Schink Have you heard the moans of protest? They are probably coming from the volunteers, their supervisors, and their organizations when they are reminded of the importance of keeping accurate records of volunteer time and the time required … Continue reading
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