In this webinar you’ll learn strategies and tactics you can implement easily and quickly to help staff more effectively supervise and delegate to volunteers.
By sharing this knowledge with your staff, they’ll be able to:
- Identify the basic skills and characteristics of good volunteer supervision
- Understand and embrace the role of supervisor
- Appreciate the similarities and uniqueness of supervising salaried versus non-paid staff
- Assess their own competence in supporting volunteers
- Understand the elements and importance of effective delegation
Speakers
Betsy McFarland
Principal
Adisa
Betsy McFarland is a strategist and problem-solver who has forged a unique professional niche focused on empowering staff and volunteers committed to tackling challenging societal issues. Most recently, she led the growth and transformation of one of the largest program departments at The Humane Society of the United States as vice president of companion animals, winning accolades for developing a series of pioneering programs.
Passionate about engaging the community, Betsy has extensive experience in engaging and growing volunteers within organizations large and small. She began her career developing the first-ever volunteer program for a local animal shelter and went on to spearheaded the launch of The Humane Society National Volunteer Center, the first broad-scale coordinated volunteer effort in the history of the organization, which now engages more than 2,000 volunteers.
Betsy currently serves as an associate director of Energize Inc.’s internationally recognized online volunteer management training program, Everyone Ready, where she guided a complete redesign of the online learning delivery system, working with other faculty to produce videos and other learning content, consulting with organizational members in how to engage their networks with the training resources offered. She is the author of Volunteer Management for Animal Care Organizations and has published research on staff-volunteer relationships. She worked with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to develop a research-supported Volunteer Program Assessment model that serves nonprofit volunteer programs across the U.S. and Canada.