1. Getting Strategic about Advancing Your Volunteer Program
Elisa Kosarin, CVA
Twenty Hats

2. Getting Strategic Action Plan

3. Inspiration

4. Adam Leipzig’s Life Purpose Questions
Who are you?
What do you love and love to teach other people?
Who do you do it for?
What do those people want or need?
How do they change or transform as a result?
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5. Adam Leipzig’s Life Purpose Formula
I ______________________________________________________ For _____________________________________________________ So they can ____________________________________________

6. Life Purpose Statements – Examples
“I teach volunteer managers the leadership skills that they need to revolutionize nonprofit culture and create organizations that make the greatest positive impact possible on their communities.” ̶̶ Elisa Kosarin, CVA

7. Life Purpose Statements – Examples
“I teach docents the skills they need to meaningfully engage the public in the issues of our time so the public may better understand their place in American society and what they can do to effect positive change.”

8. Life Purpose Statements – Examples
“I am a community planner, who loves to create visions and scale programs and teach others to share and build intergenerational, inclusive communities to drive positive change and create lasting results for all levels of our society.”

9. What’s Your Work Life Purpose?

10. What We’re Going to Cover
Getting Clear on Your Purpose
Setting an Advancement Goal
Key Elements of Influence
Next Steps

11. Why this training? It’s better for the organization
It’s important for your professional development

12. Innovation Comes from the Middle
“A hallmark of the successful 32% was the involvement of mid-level managers two or more levels below the CEO. In those cases, mid-level managers weren’t merely managing incremental change; they were leading it by working levers of power up, across and down in their organizations. ”
— Benham Tabrizi

13. Touchpoints for Program Advancement
Strategic Plan
Leadership Team
Development Team
Volunteer Management Team

14. Choose Your Program-Advancing Goal

15. Key Elements of Influence
Recognizing your power
Educating your Decision-Makers
Understanding your Decision-Makers needs, goals, and priorities

16. Volunteer Management Myth
I have no power

17. 7 Types of Power in the Workplace
Legitimate Power
Expert Power
Coercive Power
Informational Power
Reward Power
Referrant Power
Connection Power
“7 Types of Power in the Workplace”, Sharlyn Lauby,

18. What Powers do You Possess?

19. Volunteer Management Myth
My boss just doesn’t get it

20. Educating Your Decision-Makers
What do they not know now that they need to know?
What information can you share that will tell the story for you?
Data
Success Stories
Self-promotion

21. What Education Needs to Happen?

22. Volunteer Management Myth
All I need is a persuasive case

23. Understanding your decision-maker’s needs, goals, and priorities
What are their most important goals?
What are their biggest challenges?
What common goals do you share?

24. Understanding Your Decision-Maker

25. Next Steps .

26. Principles of Buy-In Planner
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27. Contact Info
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