Seeking Advice
ABCD - Getting Started/Challenges
Mundy -
for years i was involved with an agency and it had a specific focus. during that time, my experience was that we had a constant turnover of volunteers -they came when the were energized to work on the focus and left when their energy pointed in some other direction or, we found, when they lost a strong feeling of personal importance in the work. when their energy was refocused on another issue outside of the perview of our agency - we said "good-bye" and tried to leave the door open for their return; but, in the case of their loosing a feeling of personal importance, we had to start wondering if we really knew what they personally needed to sustain their motivation.
we started working to understand volunteers' "paycheck" - 70 years ago, dale carneige reminded us that people's sense of importance is essential to maintain throughout a project...or they become discouraged.
let us know how you do.