The skills required for leading volunteers 7 Articles

by Krystle Hernandez

Unquestionably, a significant part of effective management is a manager's individual leadership skills. While managers are often in charge of large groups of paid employees, the same resourceful leadership is required of ...read more

by Zoey Day

LEADING VOLUNTEERS SUCCESSFULLY In today's global economy, there are a variety of different roles and responsibilities for managers. One of the fastest growing areas of management is volunteer management resulting from ...read more

by Dawn Hawkins

Leading volunteers is not an easy task. It takes a special personality to pull it off in an manner that will suit the needs of the volunteers you will be in charge of and the needs of the organization that so desperately n...read more

by Kathleen Richardson

Valuing your volunteers After many decades of volunteering, I felt I had the necessary skills when I was offered a paid position as volunteer coordinator in a library. In addition to my ability to get along with most a...read more

by Kirk W. Johnson

The skills required for leading volunteers are similar to those required for being an effective manager in business. A good leader must be able to train, motivate, coach, counsel, and discipline their followers. The chal...read more

by Christopher Scott

- We must become the change we want to see - Mahatma Gandhi I easily could have titled this article, "Managing Volunteers." I don't believe that you manage' volunteers, I believe you lead' volunteers. There are two k...read more

by Katie Lee

Volunteers are quite different from your paid employees. They are 'working for free' but that doesn't mean they're less experienced or skilled than the paid workforce, nor does it mean that their time and commitment is les...read more