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• Workshop: Mission-Essential Skills for the 21st Century Leader of Volunteers with Barry Altland

  • When
    April 25, 2019
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    8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    The Grotto 8840 NE Skidmore St, Portland

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  As a Leader of Volunteer Engagement, you likely already know that your role deserves greater respect for the potential impact you generate for you organization, its mission and its beneficiaries. But, what can you do to ensure you are deserving of that elevated status of regard for the difference you make. 

  One answer: Become the absolute most effective Leader of people you can be. 

  Leaders who engage in this morning, afternoon, or day-long learning session will build their acumen through a variety of open learning conversations and skill-building exercises. The highly interactive workshop will impart knowledge and skills that touch on every phase of The Volunteer Life Cycle:

  • Attraction: moving beyond recruitment to a sustainable Leadership and culture creation strategy for drawing Volunteers to serve alongside your organization. 
  • Discovery: developing Volunteer interview questions that reveal the intrinsic drivers of individuals called to serve through you. 
  • Engagement: leveraging feedback using The R-B-I/B-I-F Feedback Model to guide Volunteer performance to optimal levels. 
  • Sustainment: establishing a Coaching relationship with you dedicated Volunteers, and embracing a more meaningful Recognition strategy to deepen their emotional connection with their services and its outcomes. 
  • Redirection: knowing the steps to take and the details to first consider, to address when a Volunteer experience is not going well.

  For the Leaders of Volunteer Engagement (LoVE) profession, elevating your acumen is mission-essential in the 21st century! Join this lively day of learning to take your daily Leadership practices to even greater heights. 

  
  

  Attendees will receive a copy of Engaging the Head, Heart, and Hands of a Volunteer. 
  

  
  

  Barry Altland is a writer, speaker, thought leader, non-profit executive and published author of the books: 'Engaging the Head, Heart, and Hands of a Volunteer,' a simple guide for feeding the passion of those who serve. Barry blends world-class leadership principles for the for-profits world with his own numerous experiences as a volunteer and leader of volunteers to offer a fresh perspective on volunteer engagement. The result of the experience is rich guidance for leaders of volunteers to help them lead with Otherliness. As leaders embrace Barry's unique perspective, they develop into leaders better prepared of touch the hearts of volunteers by engaging them... one person at a time. 

  
  

  
  

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• Learning Community: Volunteering While Transgender

  • When
    May 02, 2019
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    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Ride Connection, 9955 NE Glisan St. Glisan Room Portland, OR 97220

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  A NOVAA Learning Community event is where volunteer management professionals gather around relevant topics to both teach and learn from their peers in facilitated conversations.

  Estimates show that Oregon has the seventh highest per capita trans population in the United States thanks to the legal and medical protections the state provides. Couple this with a high rate of activism and volunteerism within the trans community and you have a recipe for enthusiastic and highly devoted volunteers for your organization.  Kit Lorelied and Sinclair St. Sinclair  (Tualatin Public Library) will  outline some ways to make trans volunteers feel welcome and supported as they give back to their community.

  There will be time for peer-to-peer discussion focused on implementing ways to welcome and support transgender volunteers, so come with your ideas and questions for fellow NOVAA members!
  

  
  

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• Morning Meet Up for Leaders of Volunteers

  • When
    May 15, 2019
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    8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
  • Location
    Good Coffee: 1150 SE 12th Ave, Portland OR 97214

  

  Please join us at Good Coffee on Wednesday May 15th!

  Enjoy a few pastries, courtesy of NOVAA, while you get to know peers in the field of volunteer management.
  
  Drop in anytime between 8:00 and 9:30 and remember to bring a few business cards and your wallet as this is a no-host event.

  If mornings are too packed check the calendar for an upcoming Happy Hour. Non-members are welcome to join these networking events.

  
  

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• Training: Volunteer Management 101

  • When
    May 21, 2019
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    8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, 619 SW 11th Ave Portland, OR 97205

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  Our Volunteer Management 101 Training will help you maintain a thriving volunteer base that gets more work done, builds community support and increases your organization's effectiveness. Specifically designed to assist anyone new to volunteer management, this day-long workshop covers:

  • Volunteer Program Development

  • Recruitment

  • Understanding Volunteer Motivations

  • Orientation and Training

  • Supervision

  • Risk Management

  • Recognition

  Join us and develop your volunteer program to its fullest potential!

  Lunch and a light breakfast are included with your registration.

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