After many hours spent developing curriculum-Seattle Works is kicking off a brand new leadership training program next Tuesday, designed to equip individuals with the knowledge and tools to be an effective volunteer project manager.
We've designed the training to cover the best practices in volunteer engagement and how to develop volunteer projects, while growing one's understanding of their own leadership capacity.
Why Project Management Training?
1. We've been hearing from our long-term volunteers that they are looking for the next step -- more in-depth/complex projects, and the opportunity to work more closely with the nonprofits they are serving. They want to apply your skills, education and knowledge to enhance the capacity of under-resourced organizations.
2. Nonprofits need help engaging volunteers in new ways. Working with volunteers is awesome. It's also a lot of work. In a financial climate where nonprofits are doing even more with less, developing trained volunteer leaders to partner with them expands their opportunity to effectively engage with volunteer teams. Skilled volunteer managers are a valuable resource.
The Course HandsOn Leadership combines a training course with practical application.
HandsOn Leadership coursework focuses on:- Project Management 101- Leadership- Community engagement- Done-in-a-day project development- Personal reflection
Following the course, participants will form leadership teams develop a large scale project (30-50 volunteers).
For more info on HandsOn Leadership, feel free to contact me or check out our website: http://www.seattleworks.org/AboutUs/index.php/handsonleadership.html
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