New presentation dates scheduled!

Preventing Burnout-Keeping Volunteers Engaged
At: ASTD's Leaders Conference, Crystal City, VA
11/1/2008; 12:30pm-2pm


Session Title Preventing Burnout – Keeping Volunteers Engaged
Learning Objectives • Learn how to recruit and keep volunteers to grow into leadership with your chapter
• Create meaningful experiences and learning opportunities and growth for chapter leaders
• Understand the leader’s role in motivation and retention of volunteers
Content Area Succession Planning – Retaining Volunteer Leaders
Description Retaining your chapter leaders is the key to success. While recruitment is important to generating new ideas and additional chapter volunteers, retention of experienced chapter leaders provide valuable resources and knowledge through their experiences. Keeping volunteers engaged is acknowledging their needs, and meeting those needs—essentially, creating value.
This session will discuss the various needs of volunteers, including: affiliation, objectives, and the environment, in order provide this sense of value and accomplishment. Principles of good volunteer management will enable your ASTD chapter to provide this positive environment.

“RU offering the best training for Gen Y? Getting the most effectiveness from Gen-Y employees – training 2 meet the skills and needs of the next generation of leaders”

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel Phoenix, 2532 W. Peoria Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85029

Generation Y employees will challenge the way organizations train. The addition of this generation to our workforce will change businesses and, the reality is, HOW businesses manage their employees and their talent within the organization. While WLP’s will need to ensure that Gen Y employees have the right skills to meet strategic challenges of the organization, companies will need to explore different platforms and smaller segments to meet both the individual and organizational needs. They need to learn, but training modules will use new modalities, including downloads to a Blackberry, iPod, or computer. Text messaging, the communication of choice of the next generation will be integrated into business communications with employees.
This session will discuss how to offer career tracks and development opportunities to maximize Generation Y employee's skills and meet your organizations needs. The changes to learning systems will be reviewed, and participants will learn how to change the way they communicate with their Gen-Y employees.

This program supports the ASTD Competencies Delivering Training and Career and Talent Management.