Nick Blevins Family Ministry Podcast: Children | Youth | Students | NextGen
Episode 172: Onboarding Volunteers Q&A with Kenny Conley
In this episode, Kenny Conley dives into three hacks for effectively onboarding volunteers within your family ministry and answers questions about having a successful volunteer orientation. This is the second part of a six-session series from an online event called Volunteer Bootcamp, hosted by Ministry Boost.
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Volunteer Bootcamp
Get access to the full Volunteer Bootcamp sessions and notes here.
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3 Hacks for Volunteer Onboarding
- Hack One: Stop Recruiting
- If the odds are against you, change the game
- It’s to easy for someone to tell you “no.” Instead, invite them to an experience where it’s easy to say “yes.”
- Recruit them to an orientation (it’s easy to say “yes” to come to an orientation – 1-hour time commitment)
- Create a compelling environment in your orientation where all the benefits of serving far outweigh the negatives
- Hack Two: Double Your Potential
- To double the number of potential volunteers, simply double the number of volunteer orientations
- Few churches do orientations more than once a month. Here’s the problem with this frequency (infrequency rather)
- They get sick
- Their kids get sick
- They have things come up
- They forget
- Hack Three: Host a Volun-TOUR
- **The BEST way to engage potential volunteers is to have them GET UP and take a walk.
- Don’t just talk to potential volunteers. Give them a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most exciting things happening at your church. Why?
- Tours are personal
- Everyone loves a tour
- People learn differently, tours engage everyone differently
- Tours are really easy to pull off well
- When recruiting someone to serve, they have a lot of questions. But tours help resolve the unknown in two very important ways:
- Tours give potentials an opportunity to see what ministry actually looks like
- Tours give potentials an opportunity to imagine themselves serving in the ministry
Action Items
- Get Pipeline course
- Start an orientation monthly
- Hold a “volunTOUR”
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