How do recapture the spirit of volunteerism in your association? The slide deck shares finding and key questions for association professionals based on the white paper The Mission Driven Volunteer. Session from #Ideas14, ASAE Great Ideas.

1. The Mission Driven Volunteer
Monday, March 10, 2014
1:30 – 2:45 pm
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Peggy Hoffman, CAE
Elizabeth Weaver Engel, M.A., CAE

2. How we got here
Peggy Hoffman, CAE
@peggyhoffman
Elizabeth Engel, CAE
@ewengel
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3. Agenda
 Problems with the current model
 How are you responding?
 Volunteering myths – volunteering realities
 Adding mission
 Microvolunteering and ad hocracy
 Applying what you’ve learned
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4. Problems with the current model
 Generational differences
 Groupthink
 Limited involvement
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Generational Differences

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Groupthink

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Limited Involvement

8. Table discussion
 Are you seeing these trends in your
association?
 How are they affecting you?
 What are you doing to address them?
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9. A new definition
 Dispel the myths
 Add “mission”
 Embrace adhoc/micro/episodic
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Think upside-down

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Volunteering is pro-social

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Poor volunteer management causes “voluntears”

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Mission
drives
motivation

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Take off the hand cuffs

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16. Table discussion
 What are you doing to discover and
accommodate Gen-X and Millennial
volunteer preferences?
 What are you doing to accommodate
online/virtual volunteering?
 What have your experiences with
ad hocracy/task forces been?
 What is and is not working for your
volunteers?
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17. What will YOU do differently
tomorrow?
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18. Keep in Touch!
Peggy Hoffman, CAE
President & Association Manager
Mariner Management
@peggyhoffman
phoffman@marinermanagement.com
301.725.2508
Elizabeth Weaver Engel, CAE
CEO & Chief Strategist
Spark Consulting
@ewengel
ewengel@getmespark.com
202.468.3478
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