Training Tools

An Asset Builder's Guide to Training Peer Helpers

A trainer's manual for adult leaders preparing young volunteers to do peer helping, with 15 interactive sessions complete with discussion guides and handouts (many useful for any age volunteer learning to do counseling).

Church Puzzle Game

Complete instructions and materials for an interactive group activity designed to allow faith communities to self-assess how well their congregations function.

Focus on Volunteering KOPYKIT ^TM

Formatted, printable pages about volunteering, how to work with volunteers, the history of volunteering, and today's trends--for use as training handouts, bulletin board posters, newsletter inserts.

Training Busy Staff to Succeed with Volunteers: The 55-Minute Staff Training Series (Complete Set)

12 ready-to-deliver, but completely adaptable, training sessions for teaching paid staff the fundamentals of working with volunteers in your setting.

Training Module 1 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Designing Positions for Volunteers

Designed to sensitize volunteers and staff to the significance of written volunteer job descriptions.

Training Module 2 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Volunteer Recruitment

Explores targeted volunteer recruitment: develop a strategy of invitation to reach the best people to fill your volunteer positions.

Training Module 3 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Interviewing Volunteers

Designed to examine the need for interviewing and screening volunteers and to share the basic process and skills necessary to do it effectively.

Training Module 4 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Volunteer Motivation

Explores why people volunteer and teaches how to respect and respond to differences in motivational needs.

Training Module 5 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Supervising Volunteers

Identifies the basic skills and characteristics of good volunteer supervision, clarifies the supervisor's role with volunteers, and explores methods and systems for carrying out this role.

Training Module 6 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Orienting and Training Volunteers

Explores the rationale and elements of volunteer orientation and training, and how to deal with the challenges inherent in training today's volunteers.

Training Module 7 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Delegating to Volunteers

Explores the values of responsible delegation and teaches procedures and techniques for doing it well.

Training Module 8 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Mutual Performance Reviews

Explores why people volunteer and teaches how to respect and respond to differences in motivational needs.

Training Module 9 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Handling Volunteer Performance Problems

Identifies some of the causes of volunteer performance problems and examines options for dealing with volunteer performance gaps.

Training Module 10 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Volunteer Program Evaluation

Discusses the purpose and values of a volunteer program evaluation and helps identify the steps needed to carry out an evaluation.

Training Module 11 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Risk Management in Volunteer Programs

Shares the importance of adhering to policies and procedures for managing risk in a volunteer program, as well as suggestions for controlling, alleviating or diminishing risk.

Training Module 12 in The 55-Minute Training Series: Volunteer Recognition

Helps salaried and volunteer staff appreciate the significance of meaningful recognition and to generate creative formal and informal ways to acknowledge volunteers and staff.