A System's Thinking Approach to Volunteer Management (Book)

System’s Thinking & Volunteer Management (2nd Ed.)

A System's Thinking Approach to Volunteer Management (Book)

volunteer management and strategic management

Developing a volunteer management ecosystem requires a systems thinking approach. The benefits of taking a systems approach are twofold: A system’s thinking approach supports the leadership team to harness the opportunities inherent in the larger interconnected systems of stakeholders, values, and interests.  

A systems approach also accounts for the risks and barriers that exist in approach implemented in isolation. Developing such complex frameworks without accounting for stakeholder, resource, and system constraints will usually lead to a framework that is unsustainable.


A System's Thinking Approach to Volunteer Management (Book, 2nd Edition)

A System’s Thinking Approach to Volunteer Management provides:

Templates, Models, Flow charts, Articles, and Activities with questions for your organization and group to explore the benefits and challenges of managing a volunteer ecosystem. After completing this workbook your organization will have a much stronger appraisal of the processes, systems, and structures needed to support a volunteer workforce.

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Table of Contents


Section One: Volunteer Mgt & Meaning in History
Group Exercise #1

Volunteer Mgt & System’s Thinking
Group Exercise #2

Section Two: Building a Volunteer Framework
Group Exercise #3
Group Exercise #4
Group Exercise #5
Group Exercise #6
Group Exercise #7
Group Exercise #8
Group Exercise #9
Group Exercise #10
Group Exercise #11

The Mission Statement as a Business Hypothesis  
Group Exercise #12
Group Exercise #13
Group Exercise #14
Group Exercise #15

The Volunteer Management Value Chain
Group Exercise #16


Section Three: Volunteer Personas: SWOT
Group Exercise #17

Core Competencies for Recruitment Innovation

Leadership & Employee Engagement Competencies

Volunteer Management Framework

Section Four: Volunteer Management Framework Business Scorecard
Group Exercise #19

Volunteer Management Planning Canvas
Group Exercise #20

A System’s Thinking Model of Leadership Innovation

Innovation as a Solution to Misalignment

Innovation as a Nonprofit Challenge

Building a Nonprofit Organization

Corporate Citizenship

Ethical & Learning Organizations: Innovation in History

Workplace Diversity as a Competitive Advantage

An Epi-Genetic Model of Emotional Intelligences

Disruption and Nonprofit Business Architecture

Best Practices for Nonprofit Marketing

Performance Management Framework: Opportunities for Innovation

Concluding Remarks


Travis Barker, MPA GCPM

Innovate Vancouver

Consulting@innovatevancouver.org

Innovate Vancouver is a business development & consulting service and technology startup located in Vancouver, BC. Contact Innovate Vancouver to help with your new project. Innovate Vancouver also gives back to the community through business consulting services. Contact us for more details.



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