The Gift of Leadership
How to Relight the Volunteer Spirit in the 21st Century
Every volunteer organization faces the same challenge – how to attract and motivate that volunteer workforce. As the pressures of a 21st century society push in, the challenge becomes even greater. Now, for the first time, you can give your volunteer leaders both the inspiration and the information they need to be successful. Written by one of the world’s most sought-after and respected speakers on volunteer organization management, this book is truly the “Gift” that your leaders deserve.
Table of Contents
The Challenge
| Understanding the Gift |
| The Need to Serve |
| The Big Picture |
Part 2
Creating Successful Volunteers
| The Need to Succeed |
| Recruiting the Right Volunteers the Right Way |
| Management by Assumption |
| The Giving of the Gift |
| Getting People Involved |
| Volunteer Recognition: Delivering the Paycheck |
A Surprise Package of Gifts
| Facilitation Skills: We’ve Got to Stop Meeting Like This! |
| Presentation Skills: You’re Always On |
| Delegation Skills: Everyone Needs A Little Help Sometimes |
| Top Level Management Skills: Keeping the Eyes on the Prize |
Part 4
Giving the Gift in the 21st Century
| Stop the Insanity, and Relight the Spirit |
| Access: Opening the Doors |
| The Light at the End of the Tunnel |
Book Excerpt
Giving volunteers The Gift of Leadership is one of the least understood yet most effective ways to reward and motivate volunteer leaders. The problem has been that volunteers have always had to gain the Gift by accident. In the future, with so much competition for the time and energy of volunteers, the organizations that will attract and keep the highest caliber leaders will be those which give the Gift by design, not by accident.”
