Volunteer Practice Training
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Online Learning
These 4 free courses will explore everything you need to know about involving, supporting and leading volunteers and you don’t even need to leave your desk! Check out:
- *NEW* Learning Bite - A Volunteer Charter
- Keeping Volunteers Safe: Restarting your Volunteer Programme
- Involving Volunteers
- Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
- Collaborative Leadership in Voluntary Organisations
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Learning Bites Webinars
We have developed several online webinars covering the various topics from our 6 face to face training courses.
These webinars will be live sessions delivered by one of Volunteer Scotland practice team via zoom. These sessions are for practitioners to come together to learn about good practice and share practice.
Various sessions and dates available.
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Developing Volunteer Practice
Our Face to face training has been postponed until further notice.
Redeveloped course, previously 'Volunteer Management - The Essentials'
The 3 day course split over 12 weeks will explore everything you need to know about involving volunteers. You will be challenged to think beyond what’s needed and gain an understanding of today’s volunteers in Scotland and what your organisation needs to have in place to give them a great experience.
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Effective Leadership in Volunteering
Our Face to face training has been postponed until further notice.
Effective Leadership means adapting your leadership style to respond to the needs of the individual and the team. We’ll give you the tools to do just that.
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Building Positive Staff and Volunteer Relations
Our Face to face training has been postponed until further notice.
We hope both volunteers and staff will have a good experience of volunteering, to ensure we support one another and work together to achieve our organisation’s goals. This course gives you the chance to discuss with other volunteer managers the tensions that might arise between staff and volunteer teams, and to share experience of the practical steps to take to build positive staff and volunteer relations.
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Developing a Volunteer Culture
Our Face to face training has been postponed until further notice.
Developing an effective volunteer culture can have real benefits for your organisation by ensuring volunteers are genuinely part of the team and contribute fully to achieving organisational goals.
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Developing a Volunteering Strategy
Our Face to face training has been postponed until further notice.
A strategy provides direction, enabling people to work towards achieving organisational goals. This course will address the purpose and benefits of developing a strategy specifically for volunteering.
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Measuring the Impact of Volunteering
Our Face to face training has been postponed until further notice.
Measuring the impact of volunteering is important because it helps us understand the difference volunteers are making. This course aims to answer the three questions we get asked whenever people start thinking about measuring the impact of volunteering.
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Supporting Volunteers
Our Face to face training has been postponed until further notice.
Volunteers who are well supported from the start are happy volunteers and happy volunteers are more likely to make a difference. So how do you support them? Support goes beyond simply meeting volunteers regularly, it is about building a positive relationship with volunteers from the start.
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In-House Training