New from ND
05-10-2011, 09:09 AM
#1
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Hazen,nd
Posts: 4
Hi,
I have been checking the newsletter for the past year, but never joined the group. Someone commented this past month about anyone else lurking... and I have found I have been using this quilting board more often. I will probably post a question later about designing a new sewing room...
I am a guild member, officer, looking for new ideas for our guild... we have an active guild in Hazen, ND.. but people are getting lax in helping out on the officer side of the group...
Any ideas how to get people to participate???
Clare Kupcho
Hazen ND
I have been checking the newsletter for the past year, but never joined the group. Someone commented this past month about anyone else lurking... and I have found I have been using this quilting board more often. I will probably post a question later about designing a new sewing room...
I am a guild member, officer, looking for new ideas for our guild... we have an active guild in Hazen, ND.. but people are getting lax in helping out on the officer side of the group...
Any ideas how to get people to participate???
Clare Kupcho
Hazen ND
05-10-2011, 10:02 AM
#9
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Trego, WI
Posts: 1,871
Hello and welcome from NW Wisconsin! To help people volunteer effectively:
1) asking for a volunteer to speak up from a large group is rarely successful -- do the ask one-on-one and promise to provide support.
2) when a volunteer or a small committee has accepted a task, don't let others second guess them and try to override their decisions -- this is very disheartening.
3) look hard at the list of officers/positions -- are all of them really needed? -- have times changed so that the positions should change?
4) be sure to say thank you for a job well done, both publicly and privately.
5) be sure to involve new members right away -- not by asking them to take on large tasks, but by hooking them up with other members who are working on a project -- start to give the impression that some extra involvement is expected of everyone -- if you say it often enough, people will come to believe it!
1) asking for a volunteer to speak up from a large group is rarely successful -- do the ask one-on-one and promise to provide support.
2) when a volunteer or a small committee has accepted a task, don't let others second guess them and try to override their decisions -- this is very disheartening.
3) look hard at the list of officers/positions -- are all of them really needed? -- have times changed so that the positions should change?
4) be sure to say thank you for a job well done, both publicly and privately.
5) be sure to involve new members right away -- not by asking them to take on large tasks, but by hooking them up with other members who are working on a project -- start to give the impression that some extra involvement is expected of everyone -- if you say it often enough, people will come to believe it!
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