A System's Thinking Approach to Volunteer Management: A Workbook

By Travis Barker

(1st Edition 2017) (2nd Edition 2018)Developing a volunteer management ecosystem requires a systems thinking approach. The benefits of taking a systems approach are twofold: A system's thinking approach supports the leadership team to harness the opportunities inherent in the larger interconnected systems of stakeholders, values, and interests.A systems approach also accounts for the risks and barriers that exist in approach implemented in isolation. Developing such complex frameworks without accounting for stakeholder, resource, and system constraints will usually lead to a framework that is unsustainable.A System's Thinking Approach to Volunteer Management provides: Templates, Models, Flow charts, Articles, and Activities with questions for your organization and group to explore the benefits and challenges of managing a volunteer ecosystem. After completing this workbook your organization will have a much stronger appraisal of the processes, systems, and structures needed to support a volunteer workforce.TABLE OF CONTENTS: Section One: Volunteer Management & Meaning in History Group Exercise #1 Volunteer Management & System's Thinking Group Exercise #2 Section Two: Building a Volunteer Management Framework Group Exercise #3 Group Exercise #4 Group Exercise #5 Group Exercise #6 Group Exercise #7 Group Exercise #8 Group Exercise #9Group Exercise #10 Group Exercise #11 The Mission Statement as a Business Hypothesis Group Exercise #12 Group Exercise #13 Group Exercise #14 Group Exercise #15 The Volunteer Management Value Chain Group Exercise #16 Section Three: Volunteer Personas: Strengths & Weaknesses Group Exercise #17 Core Competencies for recruitment Innovation Leadership & Employee Engagement Competencies Volunteer Management Framework Development - Gantt Chart Group Exercise #18 Section Four: Volunteer Management Framework Business Scorecard Group Exercise #19 Volunteer Management Planning Canvas Group Exercise #20 A System's Thinking Model of Leadership Innovation Innovation as a Solution to Misalignment Innovation as a Nonprofit Challenge Building a Nonprofit Organization Corporate Citizenship Ethical & Learning Organizations: Innovation in History Workplace Diversity as a Competitive Advantage An Epi-Genetic Model of Emotional Intelligences Disruption and Nonprofit Business Architecture Best Practices for Nonprofit Marketing Performance Management Framework: Opportunities for Innovation Concluding Remarks Author: Travis Barker, MPA GCPMContacting Innovate Vancouver at innovatevancouver.org/publications/ or emailing us at Consulting@innovatevancouver.orgContact Innovate Vancouver to help with your next proje

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1544962061
• ISBN13: 9781544962061
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"