Building Effective Employee Volunteer Programs
(2.5 days, 3 Credits)

Day One – Employee Involvement Today
Focus: Reviewing trends, defining the business case, and introducing the steps for successful volunteer program development

• Trends and obstacles to employee involvement today
• Understanding the strategy for effective employee involvement
• Developing the business case for employee involvement – team and individual application activities
• Defining the value added through employee involvement
• Developing an employee involvement program – Introduction of program steps
• Steps 1 & 2: Gathering information and developing a program purpose – includes individual application activity
  

Day Two – Developing an Employee Involvement Program
Focus: Applying the steps for successful volunteer program development

• Step 3 - Preparing a volunteer program plan – Team Activity
• Identifying best practices in employee involvement program development
• Step 4 - Developing an effective management and organizational structure for your volunteer program – Team Activity
• Step 5 - Reviewing strategies to ensure management buy-in and visibility
• Step 6 – Making it easy and rewarding - best practices in recruiting, recognition, communication and events management
  

Day Three – Program Measurement and Hot Topics
Focus: Understanding volunteer program measurement and developing solutions for program obstacles and issues

• Step 7 – Evaluating, measuring and reporting volunteer program effectiveness
• Hot Topics - Review critical program issues important to workshop participants and discuss solutions
• Wrap-up and next steps
  

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