Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC)

Skilled Volunteers and Roles Training

Leadership Development Module

Summary

This guide addresses ways your organization can create and implement strategies to develop skilled volunteer leaders. After reading this guide, you will be able to assess your volunteer leadership needs, identify training resources and begin developing your volunteer leaders.

Overview

Key Takeaways:

• Having a team of skilled, trained volunteer leaders is essential to your organization’s ability to mobilize an effective volunteer workforce.
• Develop a detailed job design for each of the volunteer leadership roles you will be filling.
• Identify training resources and begin developing your volunteer leaders. Consider how you will develop leadership skills, set training goals and manage scheduling.
• The Outdoor Stewardship Institute (OSI) is VOC’s leadership training organization.
• OSI has partnerships with organizations across the state to build volunteer leadership capacity for important outdoor stewardship work. Consider sending your leaders to training workshops like OSI where they can learn important leadership skills.
• Pair your new volunteer leader with a mentor or another experienced leader to assure that they are indeed prepared to take on the role of leader.
• Make sure to recognize your volunteer leaders at every opportunity to motivate them to continue

Trail Types Covered

General. All trail types are relevant.