Nick Blevins Family Ministry Podcast: Children | Youth | Students | NextGen
Episode 174: Training Volunteers Q&A with Dan Scott
In this episode, Dan Scott shares his experience of providing consistent and ongoing training for volunteers that produces excellence and unity for ministry teams. This is the fourth part of a six-session series from an online event called Volunteer Bootcamp, hosted by Ministry Boost.
Dan Scott
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Volunteer Bootcamp
Get access to the full Volunteer Bootcamp sessions and notes here.
Links Mentioned in this Episode
Ideas for Strategically Training Volunteers
Annual Training: global to all volunteers
Quarterly: targeted training for specific volunteers
Monthly: huddles for volunteers on a monthly/weekly basis
- Curriculum updates and encouragements
- Small group training
- Event communication
- Monthly Coach's Training
- In this model, coaches are delegated the communication of vision, information, and training during weekly/monthly huddles with their teams
Ongoing Evaluation: a process for evaluating volunteers’ effectiveness
- “The worst thing you could do is only meet with volunteers when something is wrong.”
- Utilize conversation for both encouragement and coaching
- In regard to Large Group, record a service and allow team members to self-evaluate
- Resource coaches with what they need to have one-on-ones with their teams to reflect and evaluate
**The idea is that training is not just sporadic information, it’s strategic conversation about upcoming ministry events or focuses. Create a consistent and constant culture of training.
Action Items
- Create a 1-year plan
- Try out TrainedUp – (Discount code: BOOST10)
- Start huddles
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