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Improving Learning Practices for Volunteer Motivation and Commitment* *Using the author's text: Learning Practices in Volunteer Organizations: Assessment and Action for Motivation and Commitment and featuring The Learning Practices Model, Checklists and Inventory© This consultation assists non-profit managers to improve the likelihood of volunteer motivation and commitment through the creation of learning environments and practices that meet ever-changing volunteer needs. Improving Learning Practices for Volunteer Motivation and Commitment is about being both a good educator and a good volunteer leader. It begins with recognizing that volunteers are also leaders and educators themselves. They come to their volunteer experience with ability, skill, knowledge and compassion and a desire to share it with other people and for other people. They also come with learning needs. The volunteer leader who understands these basic needs and builds for them conditions in which the volunteer can share those experiences and desires both leads and educates. |
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Ultimately (s)he motivates potential volunteers to join an agency and
keeps those who will commit both time and excellent performance to it.
The consultation includes:
1. Introduction
· The problem of reduced capacity and
· The changing profile of volunteer commitment
2. Understanding four organizational learning
dimensions
· Four organizational learning dimensions
· The Learning Practices Model: linking adult learning,
motivation and commitment
· Adult learning in the volunteer context
3. Assessing four organizational learning practices
· Learning Practices Checklists: Vertical axis of the model
· Learning Practices Checklist: Horizontal axis of the model
· The Learning Practices Inventory
(Both the Checklists and Inventory can be administered
to
individuals or workgroups/teams and are used to assess the
learning capacity of the organization).
4. Interpreting four organizational learning cultures
· Impoverished learning culture
· Espoused learning culture
· Accidental learning culture
· Transformational learning culture
5. Tips for using the model, checklists and inventory
· Using the Learning Practices Model
· Using the Learning Practices Checklists
· Using the Learning Practices Inventory
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