How to Engage Your Staff, Volunteers, and Board in the Hybrid World

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Frustrated.

Scared.

Excited.

Hopeful.

How do you feel about our virtual - and hybrid - world?

It seems as though this new world is here to stay.

How can you leverage the technology that exists to engage your staff, board, and volunteers so you can...

🎯 Improve effectiveness.

🎯 Create efficiencies.

🎯 Build a connected, collaborative team.

I recently joined Dr. Patton McDowell on his podcast Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership to talk about our new environment and how we can create more effective virtual training, meetings, and onboarding strategies.

A few highlights:

9:10 Engagement should be relevant and practical, not engagement for engagement’s sake.

12:15 I often hear people say training should be “fun." I'm all for having fun, but this is a yes, and situation. Fun alone isn't enough. Training (and meeting agenda items) should be relevant and timely.

31:20 Help staff feel connected to the organization.

Hear the whole episode here: