Coaching and Managing Volunteers for Performance

18 Nov 2015 9:15am to 3:30pm

Coaching and Managing Volunteers for Performance

This practical, one day course will improve your ability to motivate, manage and develop others in ways that work in your not-for-profit organisation. It will enable you to take a coaching approach to managing performance and provide tools for the wide range of conversations you need to have in the course of your role.

Topics include:

  • The Coaching Mindset
  • The seven habits of effective performance management
  • Ensuring expectations are set and met in work teams
  • Coaching conversations
  • Questions and listening
  • 4 step tool for a coaching conversation
  • Dealing with performance gaps
  • What’s the problem?
  • 5 step tool for a difficult conversation
  • The art of feedback – having constructive conversations about performance
  • Dealing with difficult personalities.

Facilitator: Aly McNicoll, Senior Lecturer, Graduate Dip NfP Management, UNITEC

When: Wednesday November 18, 2015, 9.15am – 3.30pm.

Where: Chambers Room, Mt.Eden War Memorial Hall, 487 Dominion Rd, Auckland

Costs: $90 for financial members of VA, $120 for non-financial members of VA. (Cost recovery price)

Morning Tea / Afternoon Tea provided. Please bring your own lunch.



Volunteer Stories

Neil at Selwyn Village

I volunteered here to make a contribution towards helping senior residents with limited mobility.