Volunteer Recruiting
Volunteer Orientation and Training
Alinsky's 13 Rules
Type I Governance
100

The full name of VCMS

What is Volunteer Competence Management System?

100

In addition to professional staff, an individual who can deliver orientation

What is an experienced volunteer?

100

Alinsky's rules are not [blank]

What are prescriptions?

100

Type I governance

What is fiduciary?

200

Three of the ten challenges with volunteer recruitment today

What are: time push & pull, savvy: needs and wants, process efficiencies, learning & development, rewards & recognitions, communication, competition, seasonal considerations/length of involvement, career and job advancement, and/or types of volunteers?

200

An orientation is typically a [blank], whereas a training provides volunteers with [blank] (two answers required)

What is an introduction/overview of the organization? What is knowledge/skills for specific tasks?

200

Rules #2 and 3: Never go outside the experience of [blank] but, wherever possible, go outside the experience of [blank] (two answers required)

What is the/your people? What is the/your enemy?

200

The name applied to the collective aims of Type I governing

What are the board's duties of loyalty and care?

300

The three basic elements of the competency-based recruitment model

What are screening, interviewing, and assigning?

300

Three potential elements of a volunteer orientation

What are: purpose, mission, vision, history, clientele, policies/procedures, handbook, calendar/timeline, org chart, further training needs, tours, introductions, Q&A and/or networking?

300

Rule #5: Man's most potent weapon

What is ridicule/humiliation?

300

Boards practicing exclusively Type I governance practice fiduciary oversight at the expense of fiduciary [blank]

What is inquiry?

400

Two of the eight implications for using a VCMS

What are: accountability & responsibility, learning & developing, legal, volunteer resource manager, manager, reward & recognition, corporate career management, and/or virtual volunteers [implication]?

400

The three categories of training considerations (not specific examples)

What are learning phases/roles, learning styles/variables, and generational considerations?

400

Rule #13: Pick the target, [blank] it, personalize it, and polarize it

What is freeze?

400

Two of the three principles that Type I boards assume apply to nonprofit organizations

What are bureaucracy, principle-agent model, and/or closed system?

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