Fueling Volunteer Passion: Empowering Volunteers to Self-Motivate
Learn to help volunteers to better understand their own (sometimes changing) motivations for volunteering.
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Volunteers as Beta Testers
en-usOctober 30, 2015
About this Episode
Paid staff plan new projects by applying their expertise to the intellectual challenges of the task. But it’s clients who will feel the impact of their decisions. By the time service users give feedback, it may be too late (or expensive) to make corrections. Volunteers, who bring a wide range of perspectives as members of the public, are great at pilot testing options much earlier in the process. And they will love doing so!
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