INT 103: How Best To Balance Your Time As A Leader in a Volunteer Organization

On today’s episode of IntHERrupt, our host, Linda Yates, talks with marketing expert, Cynthia Beckles, about how to balance your time as a leader in a volunteer organization.

Why is volunteering important?

• Cynthia has found volunteering as a healthy outlet away from her job to find fulfillment and make a real difference.
• She has learned how to inspire a shared vision and treat everyone involved with respect.

How can you motivate volunteers that aren’t measuring up?

• Take the time to meet with them, without singling them out, and find out if their current position isn’t a good fit. Move them to a different position that will help them to find their ‘why’.
• Cynthia still remembers the advice of a mentor from 21 years ago, a good mentor can motivate someone to stay and grow.

How do you manage your job, life, and volunteer work?

• Cynthia finds common ground within the different aspects of her life and is able to compartmentalize them.
• Have a plan and do an evaluation afterward.

What does Cynthia wish she’d known?

• Make sure that everyone knows what is going on and make sure that people realize this is not their job, it's a volunteer effort.
• The minute volunteering feels like a job, that’s when you start losing people. Acknowledge your volunteers and give them special recognition.
• Make sure the volunteers are getting what they need.

Has Cynthia been interrupted?

• The pandemic interrupted Cynthia’s life and forced her to learn more about digital marketing.
• Cynthia views interruptions as an opportunity to learn new skills and make new connections.

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