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Organisers need to get a grip

Don’t “use” volunteers as “tools” – work WITH us as SUPPORTERS of a shared cause/interest:

  • Thank us for our time, skills and energy PERSONALLY not with a blanket mail-merged letter…
  • Pay attention to our INDIVIDUAL motivations…
  • Design and modify our tasks and roles accordingly…
  • Frankly, start working with people as EQUALS, not herds of sheep that keep your grass short while you’ve to manage the bi-products…
  • Work with ‘us’ NOT ‘them’ – because next time, ‘them’ might mean ‘YOU’.
  • Then you’ll really start harnessing some people POWER.

Controversial? Debate it at a FREE seminar on event management and volunteering in Hamilton on Friday 20th JULY, 10.15-14.30, at University of the West of Scotland, with speakers from Canada, New Zealand and our own Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee.  Download the agenda and details (PDF format, 114kb)

Posted on: Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 | Category Organise, Partners