Volunteer Engagement Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Volunteer Engagement Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Volunteer Engagement related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Volunteer Engagement specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Volunteer Engagement Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Volunteer Engagement improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. What is the relationship between your organizations volunteer program characteristics and reported benefits of, perceived challenges of, and satisfaction with engaging international volunteers?
   
   

2. Will organizations whose services are in higher demand deal with the increased workload by hiring more staff, by engaging more volunteers and/or by looking to current staff to do more?
   
   

3. How could volunteering by older people and intergenerational learning be better supported, including across borders, to foster knowledge sharing and civic engagement?
   
   

4. Why does the international community allow altruistic volunteers to engage in activities that may have the same destructive effect as mercenary behavior?
   
   

5. Have you thought about what is possible around expansion of impact, or identify trends in recruitment, volunteers aging in place, or expanded roles?
   
   

6. What challenges do volunteer engaging organizations and organization departments face when trying to offer service opportunities to more people?
   
   

7. Will the category of special relationships that constitute vicarious liability be widened to include the volunteer relationship?
   
   

8. What about the more dynamic and unstructured volunteer opportunities occurring all the time and rarely counted as volunteering?
   
   

9. How do departments shift priorities to place strong emphasis on development and engagement of volunteer stewardship partners?
   
   

10. How adequate were the tools, models, resources, and the process that helped your organizations engage youth volunteers?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Volunteer Engagement book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Volunteer Engagement self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Volunteer Engagement Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Volunteer Engagement areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Volunteer Engagement Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Volunteer Engagement projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Volunteer Engagement Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Volunteer Engagement project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Activity Duration Estimates: Do procedures exist describing how the Volunteer Engagement project scope will be managed?
   
   

2. Stakeholder Management Plan: Is there general agreement & acceptance of the current status and progress of the Volunteer Engagement project?
   
   

3. Activity Resource Requirements: What are constraints that you might find during the Human Resource Planning process?
   
   

4. Planning Process Group: In what ways can the governance of the Volunteer Engagement project be improved so that it has greater likelihood of achieving future sustainability?
   
   

5. Cost Baseline: Will the Volunteer Engagement project fail if the change request is not executed?
   
   

6. Project Charter: How will you learn more about the process or system you are trying to improve?
   
   

7. Variance Analysis: Are overhead cost budgets established for each department which has authority to incur overhead costs?
   
   

8. Change Request: Should a more thorough impact analysis be conducted?
   
   

9. Change Management Plan: Identify the risk and assess the significance and likelihood of it occurring and plan the contingency What risks may occur upfront?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Which contracts have been awarded for works, supply of products or provision of services?


 
Step-by-step and complete Volunteer Engagement Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Volunteer Engagement project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Volunteer Engagement project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Volunteer Engagement project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Volunteer Engagement project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Volunteer Engagement project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Volunteer Engagement project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Volunteer Engagement project with this in-depth Volunteer Engagement Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Volunteer Engagement projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Volunteer Engagement and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Volunteer Engagement investments work better.

This Volunteer Engagement All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.