Volunteers live in a complicated world – simplify the process for them

Volunteers want things to be simple. They have little time to volunteer during the week, so complications reduce their effectiveness.

If you can’t explain what you want in a few minutes and with a simple diagram, they won’t follow it.

It isn’t that they don’t care. It isn’t that they aren’t smart enough to understand complicated things. It is that the time and attention they have when giving their spare time is limited.

Spend some time simplifying the process for your volunteers. Create easy-to-follow steps. Choose simple over complicated when you have a decision to make. You’ll have an easier time recruiting volunteers to fill simple job roles that complicated job roles.

Volunteers prefer simple. Simplify their world.

This is part 4 in a 5 part series called “5 Things Volunteers Wish Their Staff Knew”

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