Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Horticulture

This workshop is being held in Binghamton NY as a stand alone pre-conference workshop for the Association of Volunteer Resources Management organization.

If might be the  perfect 4hr ($45) professional development opportunity to help you advance the management of your program. It is on September 30 from 1pm to 5 pm and is being presented by a Cooperative Extension faculty from N.C.  who teaches numerous courses in volunteer management.

Workshop description:
It doesn’t take long for new administrators of volunteer programs to realize that to succeed at managing volunteers requires managers to wear a multitude of hats. Some days you’re the captain of the ship, then you’re asked to perform magic in your wizard’s hat, just before you pull on your garden hat to help grow new volunteers. Confusing,
overwhelming, rewarding, wonderful – mix all of this together and you have the reality of volunteer management. This session will feature a basic system for managing volunteer programs while focusing upon information and resources to help those new in the profession of volunteer resource management to adjust while finding the right fit for all their new hats!
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
1) assess organizational needs to identify potential volunteer roles;
2) prepare consistent, accurate position descriptions for volunteers;
3) develop action plans to strengthen orientation and training programs for volunteers;
4) describe a system for overall volunteer program management; and
5) design formal and informal volunteer recognition strategies.

More details about register are at: http://avrm.org/

If you are interested or plan to goto this workshop or any portion of this conference Lori (bushway@cornell.edu) would like to hear from you.

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